Beginning development on nrf52

[Ivo K]

Sorry for a noob questions but it is essential at this moment as I have not done any development on NordicSemi chips.

What software and hardware tools I need to develop application on custom nrf52 board? What is free and what is paid?

I plan to grab a couple of evaluation kits, which I believe does not need additional debugger hardware. What about IDE?

What about firmware upload hardware when device goes to mass production? Can I use the ev kit for that in worst case?

Thank you

Ivo

[Vidar Berg]

Hi,

The development kits come with an on-board Jlink lite debugger as you said. So not additional HW is required to get started. And the Segger Embedded studio (IDE) is free to use as long as you are developing code for a Nordic nRF5x device. 

I believe there are some licensing restrictions on the J-link lite that may prohibit you from using it for mass production though it is technically possible. 

Some relevant links: 

Product development with nRF5 Series SoCs - covers production programming, etc

nRF5 SDK v16.0.0 - SDK documentation

Regards,

Vidar