This guide will help you get started with your nRF51 or nRF52
Series Development Kit (DK) and developing your application with the nRF5 SDK on Windows with the Arm® Keil MDK.
If you have worked with any of Nordic Semiconductor's products before, you
are probably familiar with the Software Development Kit (SDK) and the required tools. In
this case, this guide will mostly provide reference information.
Use this guide to set up your development toolchain so you can develop, program, test, and
debug your application.
This guide describes how to work with the Arm Keil MDK on a Windows operating
system. Arm Keil MDK comes with the
Arm C/C++ compiler and the µVision
Integrated Development Environment (IDE), and all versions of the nRF5 SDK provide ready-to-use Keil
projects.
Note: In MDK-Lite, which is free for evaluation and education, code size is
restricted to 32 Kbyte. Since most projects require a bigger code size, we recommend using
SEGGER Embedded Studio (SES) instead, which is free for use with Nordic Semiconductor
devices.
The following Getting Started Guides show how to work with different software development platforms and devices:
Check out the
Nordic DevZone for additional setup information and help.