Software Development Tools; Smartsnippets Studio Introduction; Installation; Figure 2: Smartsnippets Studio Platform - Dialog Semiconductor DA1458 Series User Manual

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DA1458x Getting started with Development Kit – Basic
3.3

Software Development Tools

3.3.1

SmartSnippets Studio Introduction

Dialog SmartSnippets Studio™ is a royalty-free software development platform for Smartbond™
devices. It fully supports the DA1468x and DA1458x family of devices.
SmartSnippets Studio™ contains:

SmartSnippets™ Toolbox: A tool suite covering all software developer needs, including:
 Power profiling
 Programming and loading of firmware into SRAM, OTP and Flash

SmartSnippets™ IDE: Eclipse CDT based IDE pre-configured plugins allowing easy out of
the box set-up of build/debug environment
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SmartSnippets™ DA1458x SDK
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SmartSnippets™ Documentation
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RF master is a tool supporting the Bluetooth SIG defined Direct Test Mode for RF PHY
testing of Bluetooth low energy devices. In addition it supports a number of vendor specific
HCI commands for device testing. User can access RF Master by selecting RF Master
under the Layout tab of the ribbon menu, which loads RF Master with Log. Alternatively, user
can select RF Master tool under Tools tab of the ribbon.
The SmartSnippets™ IDE is supported by an on-board debugger from SEGGER. This offers
standard debugging capabilities such as single stepping, setting breakpoints, software download and
many more. For more details on the debugger capabilities, visit https://www.segger.com/.
3.3.2

Installation

The description of the needed steps is presented:

Download the SmartSnippets tools from the Dialog Support Website:
https://support.dialog-semiconductor.com
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Unzip the zip.
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Run SmartSnippets Studio installer (.msi).
o
Install the recommended version of SEGGER J-Link GDB server.
o
Select the destination folder for the SmartSnippets Studio.
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Run the application.
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Figure 2: SmartSnippets Studio platform

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