Nrf51 - don't bother in 2020?

[aeberbach]

I have a couple of NRF51 parts. They're pretty common at hobbyist stores still. Recently I pulled out the NRF51 dongle, downloaded the recommended Segger Embedded Studio, found a page of instructions about importing someone else's project format and modifying include paths etc... never got a working project.

NRF52 board - no problem, Segger loads an example program, flashes it, away it goes. 

Would you say don't bother with the NRF51 stuff? It's not like NRF52 is expensive I just don't like to throw what I have away.

[ovrebekk]

Hi 

I don't see any problems using the nRF51 for hobbyist purposes, as long as you don't need any features only available in the nRF52 series, but you will unfortunately not get official Segger Embedded Studio support for the nRF51 since this was added to the SDK after the nRF51 was deprecated. 

If you are starting a design intended for mass production I would not recommend the nRF51 because of the overall improved performance, lower current consumption and additional features of the nRF52 series. 

The latest nRF5 SDK with nRF51 support is version 12.3.0, and in this SDK we support either Keil, IAR or GCC. 

Best regards
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