Abe Karplus

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10 years, 9 months ago.

Upgrade possible from nRF518220-EK?

A while ago, I purchased the nRF51822 Evaluation Kit, and this looks to be the exact same hardware, so I was wondering if it will be possible to update the firmware on the Segger chip to make it mbed-compatible. Thanks!

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The nRF51822-mKIT is a low cost ARM mbed enabled development board for Bluetooth® Smart designs with the nRF51822 SoC. The kit gives access to all GPIO pins via pin headers …

Hi, it's not the exact same hardware, updating the interface firmware on the SAM3U will not make it fully mbed-compatible.

posted by Thomas Ulleberg 18 Mar 2014

What additional changes are there? If there's anything important, could it be done by modification of an existing board?

posted by Abe Karplus 18 Mar 2014

7 Answers

lawrence W
10 years, 5 months ago.

i was able to upload the mbed hex output to my EK as well as programming my EK using mbed code. I have not done any debugging however.

Vegar Westerlund
10 years, 7 months ago.

It's not so easy to see in the pictures, but the nRF51822-mKIT (PCA10024) has an ATMEL chip as the interface MCU and not a Segger. So I guess that is a no.

Except that the "Segger" chip, if you look at the schematic, is an ATSAM3U2CA-AU. Segger is really only responsible for the firmware, so the choice of chip does not preclude compatibility.

posted by Abe Karplus 02 Apr 2014

Ahhh, got it...

posted by Vegar Westerlund 02 Apr 2014
Kai Liu
10 years, 7 months ago.

So many kit. I have successfully built the demo, trying to download to my kit.Anyway.

Mario Baldini
10 years, 8 months ago.

Hello,

I would also like to know if the NRF51822-DK or NRF51822-EK, which seems to be the same hardware, is compatible with the NRF51822-MKIT.

NRF51822-DK / EK ships with two boards, while NRF51822-MKIT with only one. Would this be the only difference?

Thanks

Dani Wurf
10 years, 4 months ago.

Hi , I have NRF51822 évaluation kit (1001), how can I CMSIS DAP apduten In m'y EK

Vincent Gao
10 years, 7 months ago.

I think the question is more of how to update the ATSAM3U2CA-AU to support CMSIS-DAP. In my EK, I have FW S110_nRF51822_6.0.0 in Region 0. if you could update it to support debugging, you probably will have everything the mbed kit could offer. You could use Nordic's lib or mbed stack for Bluetooth, compile it in mbed, flash the board using Nordic's studio. Did i miss anything here? other than debugging?

Hi , I have NRF51822 évaluation kit (1001), how can I CMSIS DAP apduten In m'y EK

posted by Dani Wurf 13 Jul 2014
Skarphedinn Sigurdsson
10 years, 5 months ago.

Anyone?