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[moenad]

I was trying to flash an firmware on my nrf51822 module from Nordic SDK example, I concatenated the bin file with the s110 file and it worked fine. Now, when I went ahead to flash the bin file, here's what I got (I followed the wiki http://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/wiki/Boa ... a-nrf51822)

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> flash probe 0
nRF51822-QFAA(build code: Gx0) 256kB Flash
flash 'nrf51' found at 0x00000000

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> flash banks
#0 : nrf51.flash (nrf51) at 0x00000000, size 0x00040000, buswidth 1, chipwidth 1
#1 : nrf51.uicr (nrf51) at 0x10001000, size 0x00000000, buswidth 1, chipwidth 1

for some reason, I have no idea why `size 0x00000000`.. any clue?

If I do

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> nrf51 mass_erase
> flash banks
#0 : nrf51.flash (nrf51) at 0x00000000, size 0x00040000, buswidth 1, chipwidth 1
#1 : nrf51.uicr (nrf51) at 0x10001000, size 0x00000100, buswidth 1, chipwidth 1

Now when I try to flash the firmware, I get the following:

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> flash write_image erase ~/NRF51822/Board/pca10001/s110/ble_app_proximity/gcc/_build/test.bin 0
auto erase enabled
Padding image section 0 with 12596 bytes
using fast async flash loader. This is currently supported
only with ST-Link and CMSIS-DAP. If you have issues, add
"set WORKAREASIZE 0" before sourcing nrf51.cfg to disable it
jtag status contains invalid mode value - communication failure
error waiting for target flash write algorithm
Failed to enable read-only operation
Failed to write to nrf51 flash
error writing to flash at address 0x00000000 at offset 0x00000000

Previous state query failed, trying to reconnect

It's driving me crazy, I have no clue why that's happening. I couldn't get it to work.

Note: I have an STLink-v2 dongle, no STM32 board involved. I also updated the stlink-v2 firmware using stlink utility.

One last thing, the test.bin file I'm using is basically the output of the following (using S110 v6 and example from sdk v6):

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srec_cat ~/Downloads/s110_nrf51822_6.2.1/s110_nrf51822_6.2.1_softdevice.hex  -intel ble_app_proximity_s110_xxaa.hex -intel -o ./test.bin --line-length=44

[Yoko]

May I suggest an alternative to the STLink for flashing nRF51 ? have a look at this blog site http://embeddedsoftdev.blogspot.ca/p/idap-link.html. You can even turn your nRF51 board into an mBed board with the IDAP-Link. Which mean you can develop using mBed online compiler as well. It is full of features. Works with all IDE including Eclipse and OpenOCD.