What's the preferred way to get an SDK example running on a non-devkit radio?

RE: What's the preferred way to get an SDK example running on a non-devkit radio?

MostTornBrain — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 15:43:57 GMT

The simplest solution I found was to following the instructions here: Transferring emulated project

If I work from a pca10056e-based project, there are only 2 defines to change to get it to deploy on an nrf52811 SoC.

RE: What's the preferred way to get an SDK example running on a non-devkit radio?

MostTornBrain — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 15:05:49 GMT

I'm using Segger Embedded Studio. I'm looking at the documentation I linked to in my original reply - it is the generic Nordic SDK docs - it is not specific to Keil. To be clear, I am not using Keil. Software Development Kit > nRF5 SDK v15.3.0 > User Guides > Developing for nRF52811

RE: What's the preferred way to get an SDK example running on a non-devkit radio?

awneil — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 15:04:05 GMT

Are you looking at documentation for Keil?

AIUI, the _PH_ figures are the physical ones - ie, the chip specs; the others are the "application" settings.

In SES, the device is a preprocessor define

RE: What's the preferred way to get an SDK example running on a non-devkit radio?

MostTornBrain — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 14:49:37 GMT

However, from reading this section of the documentation it is not exactly clear where to find these settings in Segger Embedded Studio. The documentation says:

* In the project settings, change to device "NordicSemiconductor->nRF52811_xxaa".

However I can not find this defined in the project "Options" in Segger Studio.

Also, it says:

In the linker script settings, adjust the linker script to match the maximum RAM and flash size of nRF52811.

ROM END: 0x2FFFF
RAM END: 0x20005FFF

However in Segger, the options for Linker are:

FLASH_PH_START=0x0
FLASH_PH_SIZE=0x80000
RAM_PH_START=0x20000000
RAM_PH_SIZE=0x10000
FLASH_START=0x19000
FLASH_SIZE=0x67000
RAM_START=0x20002500
RAM_SIZE=0xdb00

I'm assuming I would need to change the sizes since there is no ROM END nor RAM END definition, but I don't know what the difference between FLASH_PH and FLASH and RAM_PH vs RAM. Should I change the PH and non-PH values?

Thanks,

Brian

RE: What's the preferred way to get an SDK example running on a non-devkit radio?

awneil — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 14:47:51 GMT

RE: What's the preferred way to get an SDK example running on a non-devkit radio?

MostTornBrain — Thu, 26 Sep 2019 14:13:14 GMT

I think I found part of the answer here in the SDK documentation: Transferring the project to nRF52811 hardware however, as I describe in more detail in a reply, the documentation is a bit ambiguous and needs some clarification in regards to what to change for Segger Embedded Studio.