RE: Testing NRF51822 on custom PCB

MartinBL — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 14:00:13 GMT

I don't know how advanced testing you want to do, but if you simply want to see if anything is transmitted via bluetooth you can download Nordic's mobile apps and use a smartphone: Android, iPhone. Another posibillity we often recommend is to buy a nRF51 Dongle and use this togheter with Master Control Panel or the Wireshark Bluetooth sniffer.

Q3: What do mean exactly? Do you want to read out the binary file on the nRF51? If so you can use nRFgo Studio together with your J-Link. Doing this will only give you the binary file though. If you just read the information using a dongle or phone and MCP then nothing should be overwritten.

If you want to do advanced production testing you should look into Direct Test Mode (DTM).