Looking for KiCad shield design for nRF51-DK (or nRF52-DK)

[Mich]

Our workshop is using custom PCBs for other manufacturer's developer kits, and I'd like to do a similar shield for our nRF51-DK boards. Can anyone provide a KiCad project file including schematic and board?

[Sigurd]

Hi,

It should be possible to export the Altium files we provide(nRF52/nRF51) to P-CAD, and then import the P-CAD files in KiCAD. In this answer a user has done it for the nRF51.

[Roger Clark]

The files exported by the other user aren't much use really.

They are just the PCB plots for the nRF51 reference designs, and you could get almost as much information from the PDF files that Nordic already provide

In my case I need a KiCad symbol for the nRF52832 and nRF52840, so it looks like I'll need to make the schematic and PCB footprint from scratch

I'm hoping I can get these checked by Nordic if I create a request on the MyPage system

But it would be good to know if Nordic would be willing to look at KiCad symbols

I guess I could do this in CadSoft / AutoDesk Eagle instead (as I have a licenced copy of that), but KiCad is almost as good as Eagle and and without the limitations on imposed on all but the most expensive versions of Eagle.

[Sigurd]

I don't think we will look into KiCad in the near future. Sorry for the inconvenience.

[Roger Clark]

Sigurd

No worries. I use KiCad for all designs, so I have now made my own symbol for the nRf52840, but I am still checking the pcb footprint for this device as its somewhat non standard, as it has 73 pins and I have not come across another device with that pin count.

I am happy to give it to Nordic, but I think I should also make symbols for the nRF51832 and nRF52832.