RE: Step by Step Guide to Setup and Start Developemt with nRF51 or nRF52 DK and IAR

lbehhhh — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 13:24:07 GMT

Hello, Thanks for the tutorial.

I have a question/issue. I have successfully flashed nRF52840 preview DK with the s140_nrf52840_5.0.0-2.alpha_softdevice.hex and with the ble_app_hrs_pca10056_s140.hex files provided with SDK v13 via nRFgo Studio.

I have written a simple phone app that detects the device and counts bytes of data being passed between the devices.

However, when I compile the example project from within IAR and start a debug session I cannot find the device any more.

I have:

Prior to starting debug in IAR studio erased the device and flashed the nRF52840 DK with the softdevice hex file
Compared the hex file generated by IAR against the one provided in the SDK. They are different.
I then tried to flash the .hex file compile by IAR using nRFgo Studio to narrow down if it was an IDE issue.

Nothing I tried resulted in me being able to find the device when I used code generated by IAR. That being said I have successfully got he board talking with Eclipse and GCC toolchain, but abandoned that for various reasons.

Any help would be great.

Thanks again

UPDATE: Odd as it may be, I also have access to the ARM KEIL IDE/Toolchain, and was able to flash/debug the example from there as well. So out of 4 options to get code onto the device (1. nRFgo Studio and SDK .hex files, 2. Eclipse/GCC, 3. KEIL, 4. IAR) IAR is the only one that I cannot get to work (meaning I cannot see the device advertising or connect to it with my phone app).

Any help would be great before getting in touch with IAR directly.