nRF51-DK problems with mBed Serial::set_flow_control

[maurizio]

Hello, I'm trying to program nRF51DK with mBed but I'm encountering problems with the mBed::Serial class, that does not recognize the method set_flow_control as its member.

Apparently the problem is related to the integration between the mBed environment and the nRF51 chips.

Is there any easy way around with which, while still using the mBed environment, I can achieve HW flow control out of pins #8 & #10 of the nRF51-DK board ?

[Hung Bui]

@maurizio: The hardware on the chip support HWFC, but I'm not sure how it is configured on mbed.

Exporting the mbed project to KEIL and I found that it was because the platform doesn't have define macro for DEVICE_SERIAL_FC, so in SerialBase.h, the function set_flow_control() is not included.

I would suggest you to also post a question on mbed forum, you may get better answer from there.

[Hung Bui]

@maurizio: mbed is an open platform, I think it's totally fine to modify the code as you wish.

You can also have a look at this blog.

Where we explain how you can use the mbed board with our SDK. Note that most of our example in the SDK can be used with the KEIL Uvision evaluation (free) version.