Getting started with EWARM 6.7 and nRF51822

[Steven Grunza]

I have the nRF51 Dongle and an nRF51822 BLuetooth Smart Beacon kit. For software tools I have IAR's EWARM 6.7 for a complete IDE or command line GCC/GDB.

Are there any pointers on how to get started writing Bluetooth enabled applications that do not involve the Keil tools?

I've seen references to PCA10031 and PCA10028. The nRF51 Dongle has a label that reads PCA10031 V1.0.0 -- what is the PCA10028?

Any and all help appreciated.

[Matt Barr]

PCA10028 is the relatively new nRF51-DK board that uses NRF51422-QFAC with 32k RAM. It is supported by the new 7.1.0 SDK. This SDK does not contain example IAR projects, but between the 6.1.0 IAR example project setups and 7.1.0 example project source code it didn't require too much effort to get IAR working with the new DK, SDK and softdevices. I've not used the smart beacon kit, hopefully the situation is the same.

Here is an IAR project for examples/ble_peripheral/ble_app_hrs/pca10031/s110 in the 7.1.0 SDK. I do not have PCA10031, this was tested with PCA10028 by changing the compiler board type definition. See the included README.txt file for other details. Again, I hope this helps.

[Steven Grunza]

How can I get the 6.1.0 IAR example project setups? I've been looking all any SDK before the SDK_7 changes and haven't found anything yet.