IB51822 is an mbed enabled Bluetooth 4.0/4.1 Low Energy ARM Cortex M0 Development board based on nRF51822 chip from NordicSemi. IB51822 runs in SUPER LOW POWER, which means you can power it with a coin battery for a couple of months! You can use it to make your own IoT projects like smart watches, step-counter, sleep tracker, smart home switches, Amazon dash-button, Beacon, and all kind of sensor projects like heart-rate sensor, brain wave sensor, muscle sensor, etc. There're so many ideas that can be achieved with IB51822.
It's designed with flexibility, easy to use with all pin-outs accessible for any requirements of project prototyping. IB51822 can be used to with a variety of smart phone, here's a list of devices that are known having the BLE supported:

Apple smart devices:

iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPhone 5C, iPhone 5S, iPhone 6, iPhone 6C and iPhone 6S. iPAD, iPAD2, iPAD mini.

Android phones:

• Google Nexus 4, 5, 6, 7.
• Samsung Note 3 / GT-I9300 / GT-I9500
• Huawei Ascend P7
• HTC One + Android OS v4.4.2+
• HTC One M7 + Android OS v4.4.2+
• Moto X/G + Android OS v4.4.2+
• Samsung Galaxy S5
• Sony Xperia E1 + Android OS v4.3
• Sony Xperia Z1 + Android OS v4.4.4

Pin outs

Feature highlights

CPU:

• Single chip, highly flexible, 2.4 GHz
• 32-bit ARM Cortex M0 CPU core
• 256kB flash + 16kB RAM, nRF51822 QFAA
• Supports 16MHz XO, 16MHz RCOSC, 32MHx XO, 32kHz XO, 32kHz RCOSC

mbed BLE Enabled

• BLE 4.0/4.1 support
• Support standard and custom GATT Profiles
• Supports both BLE Central and Peripheral Roles.

Peripherals

• 3 x 16/24-bit timers with counter mode
• 16 channel CPU independent Programmable Peripheral Interconnect (PPI)
• Encryption -128-bit AES ECB/CCM/AAR co-processor
• Random Number Generator
• RTC
• Integrated on chip temperature sensor
• Flexible GPIO pin configuration
• 31 GPIO
• Up to 4 PWM

Digital I/O

• Digital interfaces -SPI Master/Slave, 2-wire I2C, UART
• Quadrature decoder

Analog I/O

• 8/9/10 bit ADC - 8 configurable channels
• Low power comparator

Power Management

• Wide supply voltage range (1.8v to 3.6V)
• Flexible power management scheme
• On-chip DC/DC converter
• 600nA @ 3V OFF mode
• 2.6µA @ 3V ON mode, all blocks in idle mode
• 1.2µA @ 3V OFF mode + 1 region RAM retention

Ultra low power consumption

• 6.3mA - TX at -4dBm (3V using on-chip DC-DC)
• 8.0mA - TX at 0dBm (3V using on-chip DC-DC)
• 11.8mA – TX at +4dBm (3V using on-chip DC-DC)
• 9.7mA – RX (3V using on-chip DC-DC)
• 13mA – RX at 1Mbps (No DC-DC)
• 10.5mA – TX at 0dBm (No DC-DC)
• 0.6µA – SYSTEM-OFF, no RAM retention
• 1.2µA - SYSTEM-OFF, 8KB RAM retention
• 2.6µA - SYSTEM-ON, All peripherals in idle mode

2.4GHz Multi-protocol Radio

• +4dBm to -20dBm output power in 4dBm steps
• -30dBm output power in whisper mode
• -96dBm RX sensitivity at 250kbs
• -90dBm RX sensitivity at 1Mbps
• -85dBm RX sensitivity at 2Mbps
• 2 Mbps, 1 Mbps and 250kbs supported data rates
• Excellent co-existence performance

What you will get?

When you bought IB51822, you will get not only IB51822 but also two essential tools: IBDAP and IBDAPC10J20 adapter. IB51822 programming is accomplished via IBDAP, which is an open software open hardware low cost CMSIS-DAP JTAG/SWD Debugger, while IBDAPC10J20 is a JTAG 10-pin to 20-pin header adapter, this little tool easily bridges the IB51822 debug interface to a tradition 20-pin JTAG header.

Super easy BLE programming

IB51822 is an mbed enabled development board, which means a lot more easier programming and prototyping, shorter development cycle and faster market release.

Step 1: Connect

Step 2: Compile (Windows, Linux or Mac)

Open one of your NordicSemi nRF51822 mbed project and click Compile and download hex file.

Step 3: Flash (Windows, Linux or Mac)

Open a Terminal and run OpenOCD (see below how to install):

$ openocd.exe -f ../scripts/interface/cmsis-dap.cfg -f ../scripts/target/nrf51.cfg

Open another Terminal and run:

``` $ telnet localhost 4444

reset halt

flash write_image erase /file/path/to/downloaded/mbed/hex/file.hex 0x0

```

Downloads

Schematic Download: https://s3.amazonaws.com/armstart/BLE/IB51822/IB51822_V0.2_SCH.pdf

PCB Assembly Info: https://s3.amazonaws.com/armstart/BLE/IB51822/IB51822_AD.pdf

For more details including How to install OpenOCD on Windows, Linux, Mac OS, please visit http://armstart.com/products/ib51822-bluetooth-low-energy-arm-cortex-nrf51822-development-board