BL600 Development Kit and Nordic Tools

[Steve]

Hi,

I am using BL600 Development Kit(Laird). Is it possible to develop my application on this kit using the Nordic tools( Keil IDE,SDK and soft-device)?

if yes, is there any reference or guide for help?

Thanks in advance

[run_ar]

I'm not familiar with the BL600 DK, but it looks as if it has a segger programmer, which in case it should be ok to use with the Nordic tools. you will have to create a custom board file, but that should be quite straight forward.

I have not seen a reference or guide for this, but it might be that Laird has something, even though I think they prefere that you use their system. Have you asked them? If they don't just hook up the segger programmer, erase everything on the chip and program it with Softdevice + your application.

[Steve]

Thank for your reply,

The laird suggested to use smartBASIC run time engine, and I implemented my application using it.. but unfortunately, application didn't work as i wanted and there existed several challenges!

Yes, there is segger programmer embedded in the development kit design. That seems helpful? can I program the Softdevice using it? and what SDK and Softdevice suggested to use?

What did you mean by custom board file?

[run_ar]

The BL600 is nRF51, right? which in case SDK 12.3 is the latest one. use the latest compatible softdevice. the board file is used by the SDK to map io's i.e. buttons and leds. just modify one of the existing files to match the BL600 dk (or at least the parts of it you want to use).