No IAR workspace for nRF51 SDK10.0.0

[wendytang2000]

I am working on BLE development and need to study the BLE heart rate collector and peripheral examples. I plan to flash ble_app_hrs onto nRF51422 and ble_app_hrs_c onto nRF52840. The SDK for nRF51422 was SDK10.0.0. However, none of the BLE examples have IAR workspace (.eww). I am curious to know whether there is any incompatibility between SDK10.0.0 and IAR. Is it going to work if I use an IAR workspace for a different SDK then change the project, memory mapping, etc? Thank.  

[Kenneth]

Hi,

From the release notes I can find that the nRF51 SDK v10.0.0 (released in 2015):

The following toolchains/devices have been used for testing and
verification:
- ARM: MDK-ARM version 5.14.0.0 and 5.16a
- GCC: GCC ARM Embedded 4.9 2015q1
- IAR: IAR Workbench 7.30.4
- Windows XP SP3 32-bit
- Windows 7 SP1 64-bit
- Windows 8.1

If you don't have these compilers anymore I suggest to update to a newer nRF51 SDK, for new development I would also suggest to check out the nRF52-series. The latest nRF5 SDK that support nRF51-series is 12.3, the latest for the nRF52-series is 17.

Best regards,
Kenneth

[wendytang2000]

HI Kenneth,

Thanks for your reply. Based on your inputs, I used the SDK 12.3 and successfully built the BLE peripheral HR example.

Wendy