Nordic Is Getting Involved in RISC-V

Re:Nordic Is Getting Involved in RISC-V by fullstop on Friday November 10, 2023 @10:26AM (#38220000)

> No, the official Nordic devkits comes with a built-in debugger. Same for micro:bit. It's just plain USB.

Right, the devkits can do this. If you want to go past that, like making your own PCB with a NRF52 on it you need JTAG, which is not a requirement for esp32.

Maybe the NRF52 has some sort of ROM serial loader that I've missed though.

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Re:Nordic Is Getting Involved in RISC-V by SwaraLink on Friday November 10, 2023 @10:32AM (#38220076)

It’s actually possible to use the debugger on the NRF dev kits to flash/debug custom PCBs with NRF chips. So a separate (more expensive) JTAG debugger is in fact not required.

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Re:Nordic Is Getting Involved in RISC-V by m-ee on Friday November 10, 2023 @01:14PM (#38222368)

Yes nrf dev boards have an on board j-link, and Nordic provides instructions on how to turn the board into a programmer. Their licensing with segger explicitly allows this as long as you use it for other Nordic devices. Much cheaper than a standalone j-link.

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