

Download the latest nRF5 Software Development Kit (SDK), common for nRF51 and nRF52, currently v.11.0.0, by clicking on this hyperlink: nRF5_SDK_11.0.0_89a8197.zip. NOTE: It is recommended that the size-limited evaluation version be selected instead of the 30-day evaluation version, as the former does not have a time limit.īe aware that the size-limited version of IAR is limited to 16 Kbyte of compiled/linked code size for M0 (nRF51) and 32Kbyte of compiled/linked code size for M4 (nRF52), and some SW examples included with the nRF5 SDK are larger than the 16Kbyte limit, and therefore unusable in the nRF51, unless a full license is purchased from IAR.Ĭ. Download and install the latest evaluation version of IAR “Embedded Workbench for ARM” (EWARM) tool chain from this link. If you already have a licensed copy of IAR, it is important that you upgrade to the latest version of EWARM, and you can skip this step. Use this link,, if the PC/Laptop where you will be setting up the development environment, has a 64-bit Windows OS, OR, use this link,, if the PC/laptop has a 32-bit Windows OS.ī. Download and install nRFgo Studio (which includes the nRF Command-Line Tools package JLinkARM, JLink CDC, nRFjprog, and mergehex) from one of the following links. Separate download links are provided where applicable.Ī. These steps are also applicable to the nRF52 DK. 3, “Getting Started” of the nRF51-DK - User Guide v1_0.pdf document. Listed below in more detail, and with the links to the referenced SW tools, are steps in Sec.

The nRF52 DK User Guide will be available when we release the DK with the production silicon sometime in Q1 2016.

The following hardware is required for this guide. The purpose of this blog is to provide a step by step guide to help a developer, starting off with the Nordic Semiconductor nRF51 DK, to get the necessary tools installed and get the software (SW) development environment setup so that the user can start developing with the nRF51 DK using the IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM (EWARM) IDE.
