nRF51 DK - Keil licensing

Question

Hello, I've just purchased an nRF51 DK and installed the SDK. I have Keil uVision 5 installed from a previous project, with a "Freescale Only" license key. This seems to be keeping me from compiling for Nordic; I get a "Device is not supported" message. 
 Is it possible to get a temporary key for evaluation purposes? Any other suggestions? 
 Thanks!

mnhs · Accepted Answer

Almost fully featured Keil MDK-ARM Lite with a main limitation of 32 kB of code (in ROM) can be downloaded for free from Keil website. However, I don't know if you will need a separate installation of Keil or it will be possible to unlock it in your Freescale enabled installation. 
 Anyway, you can see the full list of limitations here:
 www.keil.com/.../limits.asp 
 And since 2010, it is allowed to use MDK-Lite for commercial purposes:
 www.keil.com/.../3595.htm 
 The stack does not count in the 32kB limit as it is a completely separate and non-changeable part uploaded to a different part of memory. The programs themselves are not very space-consuming. Even one of the more complicated examples, which is ble_ant_app_hrm, consumes only 11kB of ROM. My most complicated project with Nordic chip so far was a design of some-kind-of proprietary smartwatches with a OLED display, accelerometer, 868 Mhz transceiver, GPS chip and two or three more peripherals. I didn't get over 20 kB of code. The Keil does a great job in optimizing the code. 
 Thus, for most projects, you are fine with Keil MDK-Lite.

nRF51 DK - Keil licensing

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