BC840/M/E, Compact BLE 5, Thread, Zigbee Modules

Ver 1.00, April 2019

2. Codes Development Using Nordic Tools

Development tools by Nordic and other third party development tools recommended by Nordic should be

used .

Easy, fast and safe code development

Nordic development environment for nRF52840 offers a clean separation between application code

development and embedded protocol stacks. This means compile, link and run time dependencies with the

embedded stack and associated debugging challenges are removed. The Bluetooth low energy and ANT stack

is a pre-compiled binary, leaving application code to be compiled stand-alone. The embedded stack interface

uses an asynchronous and event driven model removing the need for RTOS frameworks.

Over-The-Air DFU

The nRF52840 is supported by an Over-The-Air Device Firmware Upgrade (OTA DFU) feature. This allows for

in the field updates of application software and SoftDevice.

SoftDevices

The Nordic protocol stacks are known as SoftDevices and complement the nRF52 Series SoCs. All nRF52

Series are programmable with software stacks from Nordic. This bring maximum flexibility to application

development and allows the latest stack version to be programmed into the SoC.

SoftDevices available from Nordic:

S140: Bluetooth low energy concurrent central/peripheral/observer/broadcaster stack.

Development Tools

Nordic Semiconductor provides a complete range of hardware and software development tools for the nRF52

Series devices. nRF52 DK board is recommended for firmware development.

Nordic software development tools can be downloaded from the following webpage.

http://infocenter.nordicsemi.com/index.jsp?topic=/com.nordic.infocenter.nrf52/dita/nrf52/development/

nrf52_dev_kit.html&cp=1_1

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