Makerdiary nRF52840-MDK

Hardware

Platform Nordic nRF52: The nRF52 Series are built for speed to carry out increasingly complex tasks in the shortest possible time and return to sleep, conserving precious battery power. They have a Cortex-M4F processor and are the most capable Bluetooth Smart SoCs on the market.

Microcontroller

NRF52840

Frequency

64MHz

Flash

1MB

RAM

256KB

Vendor

Makerdiary

Configuration

Please use nrf52840_mdk ID for board option in “platformio.ini” (Project Configuration File):

[env:nrf52840_mdk]
platform = nordicnrf52
board = nrf52840_mdk

You can override default Makerdiary nRF52840-MDK settings per build environment using board_*** option, where *** is a JSON object path from board manifest nrf52840_mdk.json. For example, board_build.mcu, board_build.f_cpu, etc.

[env:nrf52840_mdk]
platform = nordicnrf52
board = nrf52840_mdk

; change microcontroller
board_build.mcu = nrf52840

; change MCU frequency
board_build.f_cpu = 64000000L

Uploading

Makerdiary nRF52840-MDK supports the next uploading protocols:

  • blackmagic

  • cmsis-dap

  • jlink

  • mbed

  • nrfjprog

  • stlink

Default protocol is cmsis-dap

You can change upload protocol using upload_protocol option:

[env:nrf52840_mdk]
platform = nordicnrf52
board = nrf52840_mdk

upload_protocol = cmsis-dap

Debugging

PIO Unified Debugger - “1-click” solution for debugging with a zero configuration.

Warning

You will need to install debug tool drivers depending on your system. Please click on compatible debug tool below for the further instructions and configuration information.

You can switch between debugging Tools & Debug Probes using debug_tool option in “platformio.ini” (Project Configuration File).

Makerdiary nRF52840-MDK has on-board debug probe and IS READY for debugging. You don’t need to use/buy external debug probe.

Compatible Tools

On-board

Default

Black Magic Probe

CMSIS-DAP

Yes

Yes

J-LINK

ST-LINK

Frameworks

Name

Description

Zephyr

The Zephyr Project is a scalable real-time operating system (RTOS) supporting multiple hardware architectures, optimized for resource constrained devices, and built with safety and security in mind.