For embedded hardware tracing and debuting is a vital step to a stable product. Unfortunately it is not all the time a easy task. Luckily BLE DEV.N board has an option to trance and debug via serial port.

You need to:

•  add #include “mk_trace.h”
• initialise the mk_trace service with: mk_trace_init(256,256);
• add trace messages like: mk_trace(“ADV START: %d\n\r”, m_advertising_mode); or mk_trace(“ERROR code: %d, line: %d file:%s….)
• run some terminal software like putty with com port number(using Device Manager) and speed: 921600

• watch the output

Namaste!

P.S. You can find the service code and sample at github .

We updated User Manual for the BLE DEV.N R2 Board with more detailed explanation about change which is needed because of the crystal we use on the board. When you try to run all Nordic Bluetooth Low Energy examples (ble_…) with our board, you need to change clock source to NRF_CLOCK_LFCLKSRC_SYNTH_250_PP in SOFTDEVICE_HANDLER_INIT macro like this SOFTDEVICE_HANDLER_INIT(NRF_CLOCK_LFCLKSRC_SYNTH_250_PPM...

It will make initialisation of the SoftDevice to pass successfully and your example with not hang anymore.

Namaste!

Today we experimented to program BLE DEV.N R2 ST-LINK/V2 from STM32F3DISCOVERY and “hourra”(hurray)! It was possible to program it and debug it step by step directly from IDE.

We expect that probably will be possible even to use the cheapest board from ST 32F0308DISCOVERY and tomorrow we will test with it too.
So one more option to program and make fun!