RE: Documentation and Resources for Eclipse Development

Peter — Wed, 14 Jan 2015 00:43:27 GMT

Hi, Nguyen. Sorry I misrepresented your blog article. I was ignorant of how the different parts fit together--thanks for correcting me. I updated my article and added more detail. Thanks for writing your blog article, BTW!

RE: Documentation and Resources for Eclipse Development

Nguyen Hoan Hoang — Thu, 08 Jan 2015 21:34:16 GMT

Hi,

I'd like to clear out some confusion about the "Software Development with nRF51 blog" that was mentioned here. That blog has no preference to whether using JLink or OpenOCD but a little bit more oriented toward OS X. The blog showed both configurations on the Eclipse page of the Blog. Nordic dev is based on Keil and JLink but many questions has been asked to use other means that are free or less expensive. I do own a JLink Ultra+ and do a lot of work with it including all the works I post on the site. The main purpose of that blog site is to use free and very low cost tools to develop so everyone can enjoy.

EHAL (Embedded Hardware Abstraction Library) is a multi-platform library. You are not require to use it. Although it is leaned toward the IMM-NRF51822 but the example code are mostly generic nRF51822. A lot of people use it on the EK/DK and other modules as well. Not everything is in the SDK. EHAL provides many functions that do not exist in the SDK that works across ARM MCU (LPC17xx, LPC11xx, CC3200, nRF51 and others). The EHAL source tree is just a facility to work with multiple MCU where code are shared as explained in the EHAL page of the site. The nRF51 page is what specific the nRF51xx, even Arduino is supported.

Another thing worth mentioning is that all the BLE example code on the blog have a corresponding iOS code in a one to one relationship to help understand how it works. I am suppose to make the Android version as well but since Google changed the Android dev to the new IDE, I haven't got time to catchup with it.

In general the blog is about alternative and affordable way to Embedded development for everyone.

Thanks for mentioning about the blog post.

PS. I have been working on an alternative low cost jtag tool based CMSIS-DAP. Hope to get your supports.