SEGGER + nRF51 = no SDK?

[Don]

Hi,

New to Nordic, new to SEGGER, and new to ARM, so forgive me if I'm just missing something...

I've been asked to write new code for some boards that have the nRF51822 chip on them. The board needs to act like a BLE peripheral.

Since Nordic seems to work closely with SEGGER, I figured SEGGER Embedded Studio (SES) would be the best tool to use.  I've downloaded and installed it, and my J-LINK programmer should be here tomorrow. I'm trying to get the correct SDK to use with it.  I figured the latest nRF5 SDK (16.0.0) would be the right thing to use.  But...

It appears to me that I need to use Softdevice S110 or S130, but it looks like Nordic dropped support for S130 after SDK 12.3.0, after dropping the S110 sometime earlier.  So I downloaded 12.3.0 and tried to open an example.  But there are no SES examples in 12.3.0 like there are in 16.0.0.  The SES examples in later SDKs don't support S130.

Can someone suggest the right combination of Softdevice, SDK, and (hopefully free) IDE to use for nFR51 BLE peripheral development?

Thanks.

[Don]

Yes, thank you very much.

I was able to compile it successfully.  I just had to undo a change or two that I had made before.  My dev kit should be here tomorrow, and I will try running it.

Is there a tutorial or blog on using the softdevice/ble stack or is it just various threads in the devzone?  It looks like there's a lot to learn.

[Don]

Just found the Short-Range Guides: 

Looks like a good place to start!