NRF Development

An embedded development environment for Nordic Semiconductors nRF5 BLE chip.

Features

• Environment: to ensure reproducible builds this repository uses a Dockerfile to set up the development environment and the embedded toolchain using a Linux distribution (Ubuntu 18.04). An envirmonemnt script nrf-env.sh gives access to the repository inside the development environment (see Commands)
• Software Development Kit: the development environment automatically downloads the nRF5 SDK and places it in /sdk/
• Unit Testing: the Embedded Test Driven Development framework ceedling is installed, unit tests can be added to the test folder.

Installation

• Install Docker
• Clone the repository: git clone https://www.github.com/d-asnaghi/nrf-development
• Move into its directory: cd nrf-development
• Enable execution of the environment script: chmod 755 nrf-env.sh
• Run compilation command: ./nrf-env.sh make

Usage

Any command appended after the environment script will run inside the development environment. To run <command> type nrf-env.sh <command>

Some common commands are:

• Compile: ./nrf-env.sh make
• Test module.c: ./nrf-env.sh ceedling test:module
• Test all modules: ./nrf-env.sh ceedling test:all