LPCXpresso Support for mbed
NXP Semiconductors N.V. has announced that their latest versions of the LPCXpresso range of development boards now support the ARM mbed internet-of-things application development platform.
Since its introduction in 2010, the LPCXpresso development platform - with its Eclipse-based IDE and flexible target boards - has been used by embedded systems engineers as an evaluation-to-production solution for developing MCU applications based on NXP LPC microcontrollers. Now at version 2, LPCXpresso developers have access to resources from both LPCOpen and the mbed.org developer communities.
NXP acknowledged that “The mbed platform has grown in popularity and feature set, now providing free software libraries, hardware designs and online tools for professional rapid prototyping of products based on ARM microcontrollers.” Some of the new boards include features such as shield connectors to support the Arduino UNO environment and Wi-Fi or Bluetooth connectivity. The new boards use v7.1 of the LPCXpresso IDE, which according to NXP includes “multiple improvements in compiler optimisations, IDE speed and feature set, access to ARM’s latest lib-nano C library for more efficient code generation, and support for Segger’s debug probe and related utilities”.
ARM director of IoT Simon Ford explained “We learnt from the web and smartphone revolutions that by building an open-source software platform with reusable software components and free development and collaboration tools, we can enable the creation of IoT and smart devices on a previously unimagined scale”.
