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nRF518822 setup without nRFgo

As I've seen many others have done, I bought the nRF518822 Development Kit not seeing that I needed the $400 nRFgo motherboard.

Searching around reveals that shouldn't stop me from being able to still program for the chip. All I'm trying to do is get it to advertise the iBeacon profile.

Here is my setup current on the hardware side: image description image description image description image description

What i've done from the software side:

  1. Installed Keil MDK-ARM Lite
  2. Installed J-Link Software (selected Keil MDK when asked what other IDE's I wanted to use)
  3. Installed nRF51 SDK

nFRgo Studio image description

nRFgo Studio image description

Segger image description

J-Link Commander image description

Device manager (if this helps at all) image description

From what I've also seen, I think that I need to flash the chip first before it shows up?? How do I go about flashing it without the motherboard??

Any help would be very much appreciated!!

(full disclosure, I am very new to this)

  • Firstly,You should download hardware file of nrf51822 board

    The problem is VNRF the board are not connected to 3.3 v and VTG of the programmer are not connected to 3.3 V too.

    Connect pin 1 and pìn 2 (VCC Nrf' and VCC NrF) on K1 by using jumper Connect VTG (P2) ,VCC and Vnrf' (P1) together and all connect to 3.3 v from external source ( Common GND Pin) Now you can program the board without motherboard

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