Program your Nordic Semiconductor nRF51 or nRF52 board using the Arduino IDE.
Does not require a custom bootloader on the device.
- Plain nRF52 MCU
- Nordic Semiconductor nRF52 DK
- For boards prior to
2016.9
(see sticker), the lastest JLink bootloader is required to upload sketches. To upgrade, press the boot/reset button while powering on the board and copy over the latest bootloader.
- For boards prior to
- Shenzhen Taida Century Technology nRF52 low cost development board
- RedBear Blend 2
- RedBear Nano 2
- Bluey
- hackaBLE
- Plain nRF51 MCU
- BBC micro:bit
- Bluz DK
- Nordic Semiconductor nRF51822 Development Kit + nRF51422 Development Kit
- PCA10000
- PCA10001, PCA10002, PCA10003, PCA10004 via nRF6310(nRFgo)
- Nordic Semiconductor NRF51 Smart Beacon Kit
- Nordic Semiconductor NRF51 Dongle
- OSHChip
- RedBearLab BLE Nano
- RedBearLab nRF51822
- Waveshare BLE400
- ng-beacon
- TinyBLE
- Download and install the Arduino IDE (At least v1.6.12)
- Start the Arduino IDE
- Go into Preferences
- Add
https://sandeepmistry.github.io/arduino-nRF5/package_nRF5_boards_index.json
as an "Additional Board Manager URL" - Open the Boards Manager from the Tools -> Board menu and install "Nordic Semiconductor nRF5 Boards"
- Select your nRF5 board from the Tools -> Board menu
NOTE: During installation it takes the Arduino IDE a few minutes to extract the tools after they have been downloaded, please be patient.
No additional setup required.
For 64-bit Linux users, libc6:i386
, libstdc++6:i386
, libncurses5:i386
and libudev1:i386
need to be installed :
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libc6:i386 libstdc++6:i386 libncurses5:i386 libudev1:i386
Download mbed Windows Serial driver
- Download Zadig
- Plugin Segger J-Link or DK board
- Start
Zadig
- Select
Options -> List All Devices
- Plug and unplug your device to find what changes, and select the
Interface 2
from the device dropdown - Click
Replace Driver
NOTE: To roll back to the original driver go to: Device Manager -> Right click on device -> Check box for "Delete the driver software for this device" and click Uninstall
- Download .inf file drivers from blacksphere github
- Plugin Black Magic Probe
- Point the installer to the folder containing blackmagic.inf
NOTE: If using Windows 10 or Linux then two UART COM ports will be visible without requiring additional drivers
SoftDevices contain the BLE stack and housekeeping, and must be downloaded once before a sketch using BLE can be loaded. The SD consumes ~5k of Ram + some extra based on actual BLE configuration.
- SoftDevice S110 v8.0.0 supports Revision 2 and 3 of nRF51 in peripheral role. It is 96k in size.
- SoftDevice S130 v2.0.1 supports Revision 3 of nRF51 in peripheral and central role. It is 108k in size.
- SoftDevice S132 v2.0.1 supports nRF52 in peripheral and central role. It is 112k in size.
cd <SKETCHBOOK>
, where<SKETCHBOOK>
is your Arduino Sketch folder:
- OS X:
~/Documents/Arduino
- Linux:
~/Arduino
- Windows:
~/Documents/Arduino
- Create the following directories:
tools/nRF5FlashSoftDevice/tool/
- Download nRF5FlashSoftDevice.jar to
<SKETCHBOOK>/tools/nRF5FlashSoftDevice/tool/
- Restart the Arduino IDE
- Select your nRF board from the Tools -> Board menu
- Select a SoftDevice from the Tools -> "SoftDevice: " menu
- Select a Programmer (J-Link, ST-Link V2, or CMSIS-DAP) from the Tools -> "Programmer: " menu
- Select Tools -> nRF5 Flash SoftDevice
- Read license agreement
- Click "Accept" to accept license and continue, or "Decline" to decline and abort
- If accepted, SoftDevice binary will be flashed to the board
- Follow steps from Board Manager section above
cd <SKETCHBOOK>
, where<SKETCHBOOK>
is your Arduino Sketch folder:
- OS X:
~/Documents/Arduino
- Linux:
~/Arduino
- Windows:
~/Documents/Arduino
- Create a folder named
hardware
, if it does not exist, and change directories to it - Clone this repo:
git clone https://github.com/sandeepmistry/arduino-nRF5.git sandeepmistry/nRF5
- Restart the Arduino IDE
This Arduino Core does not contain any Arduino style API's for BLE functionality. All the relevant Nordic SoftDevice (S110, S130, S132) header files are included build path when a SoftDevice is selected via the Tools
menu.
- BLEPeripheral
- v0.3.0 and greater, available via the Arduino IDE's library manager.
- Supports peripheral mode only.
If the selected board has an external 32 kHz crystal connected, it will be used as the source for the low frequency clock. Otherwise the internal 32 kHz RC oscillator will be used. The low frequency clock is used by the delay(ms)
and millis()
Arduino API's.
The Generic nRF51 and nRF52 board options have an additional menu item under Tools -> Low Frequency Clock
that allows you to select the low frequency clock source. However, Nordic does not recommend the Synthesized clock, which also has a significant power impact.
This core is based on the Arduino SAMD Core and licensed under the same LGPL License
The following tools are used:
- GCC ARM Embedded as the compiler
- A forked version of OpenOCD to flash sketches