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IDE for CC2540 BT mini development kit

carlos marin
Prodigy 20 points

Other Parts Discussed in Thread: CC2540

Hi,

I was looking at the CC2540 mini development kit for Bluetooth low energy, I saw that development environment is IAR Embedded Workbench for 8051.

is there any free IDEs availables to develop for CC2540 mini development kit?

IAR offers a limited version of the Embedded workbench but that version is limited to 4Kbytes of program or 30 days evaluation.

Thanks,

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    Guru 31280 points

    It depends...

    If you are about to use TI's BLE Stack solution along with your CC2540 device, then you must use

    IAR 8.10 or above to compile projects.

    In case you want to write something from a scratch, I think that SDCC should fit your needs. 

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    Prodigy 20 points

    The problem with the IAR as development environment for the CC2540DK-MINI is the license.

    If you only want evaluate and explore the product you have to buy the IAR IDE, because the evaluation versions does not allow a proper evaluation of the kit.

    If you select the 30 days evaluation of IAR for 8051, probably you will not be able to explore all BLE features of the kit in those 30 days.

    If you select the IAR evaluation limited to 4KBytes of code, the sample app the Developer's guide mention does not build due it exceed the 4KBytes of code (Error[Og008]: Code size limit exceeded (4096 code bytes) for this version of the compiler).

    Thanks,