Basic GPIO on NRF52840 Development Kit

RE: Basic GPIO on NRF52840 Development Kit

Neb01 — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 15:21:05 GMT

Hi,

yes, I got a voltage and two blinking LEDs.

I'll mark this as Answered now - thanks for all the help

RE: Basic GPIO on NRF52840 Development Kit

Hung Bui — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 13:56:36 GMT

Hi Benjamin,

Did it work ? Do you see any voltage on the pin ?

I don't think it's an issue with the warnings from VS Code. What's important is if the log in the compiler terminal show any error or warning.

RE: Basic GPIO on NRF52840 Development Kit

Neb01 — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 11:45:39 GMT

Hi,

I've managed to get it compiling now - I believe the error was that I had underscores in my alias names, which seems to stop the compiler from being able to find any header files? Not sure why that is, but seemed consistent.

I've attached the program I ended up with:

devzone.nordicsemi.com/.../blinky_5F00_ext_5F00_led.zip

There are still warnings when it compiles, but I'm guessing these are all fine?:

RE: Basic GPIO on NRF52840 Development Kit

Hung Bui — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 09:55:41 GMT

Hi Benjamin,

You are right. I was just focusing on creating one extra LED and not the 2nd one (led1).
Could you try to compile it for nRF52832dk to see if you get any error ?
I believe you just need to change the name of the .overlay file to nrf52840dk_nrf52840.overlay and it should work.

RE: Basic GPIO on NRF52840 Development Kit

Neb01 — Mon, 21 Mar 2022 17:33:10 GMT

Thanks, I've read through those documentation pages you linked and they were very helpful.

With regards to the blinky_custom example you linked, I'm getting some errors when trying to run it.

This error happens when first building the file:

Trying to build the file similarly gives some errors:

Looking through the code, my guess of some possible errors are:

in line 52 of the main.c, it should be 'dev2' not 'dev' inside gpio_pin_configure()
in line 8 of the .overlay file, it should be 'myled1 : led_1' instead of 'myled0led1 : led_1'
in line 17 of the .overlay file, it should be 'myled1 = &myled1' instead of 'myled1 = &myled0'

- though it is entirely possible I'm misunderstanding the code layout.

I also noticed the .overlay was labelled as 'nrf52dk_nrf52832.overlay' which I assume should be changed to 'nrf52840dk_nrf52840.overlay' for my specific board? I think that was at least part of the problem as the .overlay is now showing up in the device tree interface

RE: Basic GPIO on NRF52840 Development Kit

Hung Bui — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 10:00:34 GMT

Hi Benjamin,

nRF Connect SDK is our new platform and it's the platform that we will continue develop in the future. The nRF5 SDK is our legacy SDK and we stopped development on this SDK (We still support it and still provide bug fixes).
nRF Connect SDK has a quite steep learning curve that could be a challenge for many, including me who works at Nordic.

For your need I would suggest to have a look at the device tree documentation here. And we have a guide here that could be very useful for you.

If you simply want to add an LED to your nRF5DK you can simply add an overlay file to the board to add new LED. If you are going to make your own board, you may better create a new device tree file for your board (dts).

I attached here a modified version of the blinky example that I added a new 2 LEDs into the board on pin P0.11 and P0.12 . Please take a look at the .overlay file inside boards folder.

devzone.nordicsemi.com/.../1258.blinky_5F00_custom.zip