https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/f/nordic-q-a/60417/beginning-development-on-nrf52Sorry 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 graben-USTelligent Community 13Mon, 20 Apr 2020 11:38:57 GMThttps://devzone.nordicsemi.com/thread/245510?ContentTypeID=1Mon, 20 Apr 2020 11:38:57 GMT137ad170-7792-4731-bb38-c0d22fbe4515:38a7b723-8d2c-48f3-86e3-fe66e2d789daVidar Berg<p>Hi,</p> <p>The development kits come with an on-board Jlink lite debugger as you said. So&nbsp;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.&nbsp;</p> <p>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.&nbsp;</p> <p>Some relevant links:&nbsp;</p> <p><a title="Product development with nRF5 Series SoCs" href="https://infocenter.nordicsemi.com/topic/ug_getting_started/UG/gs/product_development.html?cp=1_0">Product development with nRF5 Series SoCs</a>&nbsp;- covers production programming, etc</p> <p><a title="nRF5 SDK v16.0.0" href="https://infocenter.nordicsemi.com/topic/struct_sdk/struct/sdk_nrf5_latest.html?cp=7_1">nRF5 SDK v16.0.0</a>&nbsp;- SDK documentation</p> <p>Regards,</p> <p>Vidar</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>