MCUXpresso for Visual Studio Code

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MCUXpresso for Visual Studio Code (VS Code) provides an optimized embedded developer experience for code editing and development. MCUXpresso for VS Code supports NXP MCUs based on Arm® Cortex®-M cores including MCX, LPC, Kinetis and i.MX RT. MCUXpresso for VS Code allows developers the flexibility to work on projects from Zephyr, or MCUXpresso SDK in conjunction with Open-CMSIS-Packs.

The VS Code extension organizes relevant information including installed SDK repositories, available debug probes, user projects and links to help get started. A popular QuickStart panel provides access to the most popular actions. Intellisense improves upon standard auto-complete and auto-format features. The debug view provides access to breakpoints, variable/register views, call stack and thread awareness while using normal debug controls to step through the code. MCUXpresso for VS Code supports debug connections with probes from NXP, PEmicro and SEGGER®.

For more information on NXP support for Visual Studio Code please review the resources below and visit our Community Forum.

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Features

Power with Ease-of-Use

  • Built on Microsoft Visual Studio Code platform, customize using marketplace extensions
  • Advanced editing: multi-cursor, auto-format, syntax highlighting, code snippets
  • Code smarter with Intellisense: completions for variables, methods and imported modules
  • Flexible use of MCUXpresso SDK using Github, with optional Open-CMSIS-Packs
  • Full support for Zephyr-based project development
  • Industry-standard GNU toolchain with a choice of libraries: optimized C library or the standard GNU Newlib / Nano library
  • Easy SDK example importing with MCUXpresso Configuration tools, including pins, clocks, peripheral and trusted execution tools
  • Source Control Management / Git integration
  • Project management view displays application information on target architecture, components, build configurations and software repository

Advanced Debug Capabilities

  • Supports PEmicro Multilink, SEGGER J-Link, MCU-Link or LPC-Link2 probes
  • Rich viewing capabilities for peripheral registers, global variables, textual/graphical live variables
  • Support for FreeRTOS, Azure RTOS ThreadX and Zephyr RTOS
  • Image Info view gives detailed overall memory usage, memory regions content and static call graphs including stack usage information
  • Device tree viewer to help with component structure of Zephyr projects
  • Integrated GUI Flash programming tool

Host Support

  • Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS / 22.04 LTS
  • MacOS 11.x Big Sur, 12.x Monterey, 13.x Ventura
  • Microsoft® Windows 10 and 11

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    EXTERNALRev 1.0Jul 5, 2023 08:54:00VISUAL-STUDIO-MARKET
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