nRF51822 Development kit

RE: nRF51822 Development kit

Mario — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 08:40:32 GMT

It looks good! unfortunatly my schedule is tight and I can't wait until april. However I'll consider it

RE: nRF51822 Development kit

Mario — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 08:36:57 GMT

I understand the "real" ones will be more powerful, but what I meant is they should include a solution for students-hobbyist within their development board. (And they do)

RE: nRF51822 Development kit

Mario — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 08:34:31 GMT

Thank you. I searched here and I didn't find anything about it. Maybe I didn't take anough time. It sounds like a nice tool. I'll definetly buy it.

RE: nRF51822 Development kit

RK — Thu, 29 Jan 2015 01:03:51 GMT

Yes the new development board has an onboard JLink (JLink OB) and that supports debugging external boards, you just need a compatible cable. If you do a quick search here you'll find a few long discussions including pictures and pinouts for doing exactly that.

In the end the new kit is quite economic. You get the nrf51422 (so you can do ANT as well as BLE while still being BLE-only compatible), you get a segger you can use for external programming, it's JLink-OB but that's good enough for most things, and, unlike the previous discontinued dev kit you don't need to buy the (costly) base kit, the new board is entirely standalone.

RE: nRF51822 Development kit

Charles Manning — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 23:37:48 GMT

Although I have not used it, I'm pretty sure the new board's debugger has a "debug out" connector that allows you to use the board as a debugger for other boards so you should be able to do what you want to.

NB: The "real" Seggers have some features that the Lite version does not.

RE: nRF51822 Development kit

Nguyen Hoan Hoang — Wed, 28 Jan 2015 22:08:41 GMT

See this project a low cost jtag in the $40 range also module that you can put on your own board. Can also be used for production gang flashing. www.kickstarter.com/.../idap-link-a-low-cost-full-features-debug-jtag