Flashing dongle using Visual Studio Code rather than Segger Studio

[HeneryH]

The following instructions are for using Segger Embedded Studio to flash the dongle.

https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/guides/short-range-guides/b/getting-started/posts/nrf52840-dongle-programming-tutorial

Step 2: Adjust the linker configuration. Set FLASH_START=0x1000 to place the application right above the MBR. You should also set FLASH_SIZE=0xDF000 to make sure that there is room for the bootloader at the end of the flash. Set RAM_START=0x20000008, as the first 8 bytes are used by the MBR for interrupt forwarding and adjust the size accordingly by setting RAM_SIZE=0x3FFF8.

Any advice on how to do the equivalent in Visual Studio Code?  I don't see any similar CONFIG settings in the prj config file. 

[Priyanka]

Hi,

Could you tell me what VS Code version you are using?

Regards,

Priyanka

[HeneryH]

VS Code 1.64.2 on Win11

[HeneryH]

Is the partition layout in flash done in a completely different way with Zephyr and Visual Studio ?

I found this file that seems like it might be defining the flash layout

fstab-stock.dts

/*

 * Copyright (c) 2019 Nordic Semiconductor ASA

 *

 * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

 */

/* Flash partition table compatible with Nordic nRF5 bootloader */

&flash0 {

    partitions {

        compatible = "fixed-partitions";

        #address-cells = <1>;

        #size-cells = <1>;

        /* MCUboot placed after Nordic MBR.

         * The size of this partition ensures that MCUBoot

         * can be built with CDC ACM support and w/o optimizations.

         */

        boot_partition: partition@1000 {

            label = "mcuboot";

            reg = <0x00001000 0x000f000>;

        };

        slot0_partition: partition@10000 {

            label = "image-0";

            reg = <0x00010000 0x00005e000>;

        };

        slot1_partition: partition@6e000 {

            label = "image-1";

            reg = <0x006e000 0x00005e000>;

        };

        storage_partition: partition@cc000 {

            label = "storage";

            reg = <0x000cc000 0x00004000>;

        };

        scratch_partition: partition@d0000 {

            label = "image-scratch";

            reg = <0x000d0000 0x00010000>;

        };

        /* Nordic nRF5 bootloader <0xe0000 0x1c000>

         *

         * In addition, the last and second last flash pages

         * are used by the nRF5 bootloader and MBR to store settings.

         */

    };

};

[Priyanka]

Hi Joseph,

The nRF5 SDK is different from the nRF Connect SDK and VS Code supports the nRF Connect SDK. As mentioned in the Tutorial, 

-Priyanka

[HeneryH]

I missed that note in the document.  Thank you Priyanka