I've been trying to get a simple blinky program to compile for the better part of a day now. The makefiles are outdated and so are the keil projects. Is this SDK no longer supported?
I've been trying to get a simple blinky program to compile for the better part of a day now. The makefiles are outdated and so are the keil projects. Is this SDK no longer supported?
Hi Max,
Is your aim only to compile the FW for Nordic mKIT (PCA10024 - developer.mbed.org/.../) In such case mbed on-line compiler should be the preferred option but you can use any other way supported by Nordic SDK (I've tested Keil and GCC), just set the target board to EvalKit (PCA10001) because they seems to be the same in terms of PIN layout (see this thread devzone.nordicsemi.com/.../ or compare yourself at www.nordicsemi.com/.../nRF51822-Evaluation-Kit). I expect that official answer from Nordic will be that mKIT should be used with mbed only but from practical experiments there haven't been reported any differences between PCA10001 and PCA10024 except loader part (auxiliary Atmel chip running mbed CMSIS-DAP FW in this case while normally it could run SEGGER J-Link OB).
If you are also speaking about loading and debugging then I can from my experience recommend pyOCD (I'm not using GDB, just for flashing). It is more fragile then SEGGER environment but it's open source and you save some money on dev kit by not paying SEGGER license. When I've used it first time in summer 2014 it needed small patches in "flash_nrf51822.py" to make it work as I needed (flashing SoftDevice HEX and Application BIN at one call) but it probably evolved so these minor glitches should be fixed. See github.com/.../ and github.com/.../ for more details. OpenOCD claims nrf51 support as well but I haven't succeeded with it.
In case of particular problems while using OCD/GDB search this forum, there are already some issues and hints explained.
Cheers Jan
Hi Max,
Is your aim only to compile the FW for Nordic mKIT (PCA10024 - developer.mbed.org/.../) In such case mbed on-line compiler should be the preferred option but you can use any other way supported by Nordic SDK (I've tested Keil and GCC), just set the target board to EvalKit (PCA10001) because they seems to be the same in terms of PIN layout (see this thread devzone.nordicsemi.com/.../ or compare yourself at www.nordicsemi.com/.../nRF51822-Evaluation-Kit). I expect that official answer from Nordic will be that mKIT should be used with mbed only but from practical experiments there haven't been reported any differences between PCA10001 and PCA10024 except loader part (auxiliary Atmel chip running mbed CMSIS-DAP FW in this case while normally it could run SEGGER J-Link OB).
If you are also speaking about loading and debugging then I can from my experience recommend pyOCD (I'm not using GDB, just for flashing). It is more fragile then SEGGER environment but it's open source and you save some money on dev kit by not paying SEGGER license. When I've used it first time in summer 2014 it needed small patches in "flash_nrf51822.py" to make it work as I needed (flashing SoftDevice HEX and Application BIN at one call) but it probably evolved so these minor glitches should be fixed. See github.com/.../ and github.com/.../ for more details. OpenOCD claims nrf51 support as well but I haven't succeeded with it.
In case of particular problems while using OCD/GDB search this forum, there are already some issues and hints explained.
Cheers Jan
