User Manual

nRF51 Development Kit User Guide v1.0
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3 Getting started
This section shows you how to get access to the tools, libraries, and documentation.
Connect your nRF51 Development Kit to a computer.
1. Connect your nRF51 DK board to a computer with a USB cable.
2. The status light (LD5) will come on, indicating it has power.
3. After a few seconds, the computer will recognize the nRF51 DK board as a standard USB drive.
Figure 2 Windows example
Get started with the toolchain and examples.
1. Download and install nRFgo Studio (which includes the nRF Tools package; JLinkARM, JLink CDC,
nRFjprog, and mergehex) from www.nordicsemi.com.
2. Download and install the latest Keil MDK-ARM from www.keil.com/arm.
3. Download and install the latest nRF51 SDK found on http://developer.nordicsemi.com.
4. Read the information in the Readme.txt file that is installed together with the SDK.
After the installation, the SDK documentation is found here:
Online: http://developer.nordicsemi.com/nRF51_SDK/doc/index.html.
Offline: <keil_location>/ARM/Pack/NordicSemiconductor/nRF_Examples/<version>/documentation