How to upgrade nRF5 SDK samples to include pca10059

RE: How to upgrade nRF5 SDK samples to include pca10059

Anthony Harrison — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 09:01:32 GMT

Thanks so much!

This is very useful information indeed, we're now doing our development on the nRF5 DK, so the above will be very useful for porting from that to the dongle.

Kind regards,

Anthony

RE: How to upgrade nRF5 SDK samples to include pca10059

Jørgen Holmefjord — Tue, 06 Apr 2021 08:46:23 GMT

Hi,

We have a nRF52840 Dongle Programming Tutorial which should be useful. This describes how to port pca10056 projects to pca10059.

As @awneil mention, the dongle is not intended for firmware development, as it does not contain an on-board debugger. Only a few select examples contains projects for the dongle, where it makes sense to support the dongle. Supporting nRF52840 Dongle in all examples will most likely not happen, as this would cause many customer to start out with the Dongle as their development platform (due to the low price of the dongle), and then running into trouble when the need for debugging occurs.

Best regards,
Jørgen

RE: How to upgrade nRF5 SDK samples to include pca10059

Anthony Harrison — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 09:55:43 GMT

Splendid, thank you!

The template project does not have the pca10059 folder, however the blinky one does - do you think that the blinky pca10059 folder can be used as a defacto for the one missing in the template?

RE: How to upgrade nRF5 SDK samples to include pca10059

awneil — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 09:50:13 GMT

I'm not sure that any of the development boards are intended for production use?

For your own development, there's no reason - other than convenience - to stick to the example folder layout.

You could copy just the board folder (and its subfolders) within the example;
Or you could copy the entire example folder (and its subfolders).

Or you could copy the entire 'examples' tree:

Here, you can see that I've renamed it _examples, so that it's easier to find - you could equally copy it and call it "Work" or whatever ...

The Projects all use relative paths - so, as long as you keep it at the same level in the tree, the actual names are unimportant.

RE: How to upgrade nRF5 SDK samples to include pca10059

Anthony Harrison — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 06:30:42 GMT

Fabulous - and thank you for replying over Easter!

I've looked at the document, and everything in it has already been implemented. What is missing in many of the examples is the folder for for the dongle, however the same folder is included in some of the examples, illustrating that it can be done.

What I want to know are the rules for creating such a folder so that I can upgrade existing examples.

Although I understand that the dongle doesn't have debugging (I'm writing my actual code using the SDK52 DK), I will have to run it on the dongle for production, and that will require creating the additional pca10059 folder.

Our strategy is to flash the dongle and then use plastic injection molding to create the body, prior to boxing and distribution.

Hence I don't need to know how to create the pca10059 folder and assets for devel;opment - I need to know how to create it for pre-production, during the post-development phase.

Any further tips would be appreciated because without this knowlege we can't proceed to production.

RE: How to upgrade nRF5 SDK samples to include pca10059

awneil — Sun, 04 Apr 2021 23:22:53 GMT

The dongle isn't really intended as a development platform; hence it has no onboard debugger - and doesn't even come with a debug/programming connector mounted.

For porting an SDK example to another board, see:

https://infocenter.nordicsemi.com/topic/sdk_nrf5_v17.0.2/sdk_for_custom_boards.html