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Arduino IDE
The Arduino IDE supports ATMEL AVR micros and many more with addons.
It's useful for board evaluation and testing.
Install
Nordic nRF5
This only works with the legacy IDE 1.8.19.
Zadig is required to provide LIBUSB to the IDE. When using J-Link, this is found as “BULK interface (Interface 2)”.
When trying to flash the Softdevice there will be an error about fetching the zip file. To remedy this place the hex file in the Arduino AppData folder.
AppData/Local/Arduino15/packages/sandeepmistry/hardware/nRF5/0.8.0/cores/nRF5/SDK/components/softdevice/s130/hex/s130_nrf51_2.0.1_softdevice.hex
The Softdevice hex file is located in the SDK.
