Hardware
2 hardware offerings
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Emulators, Probes, and ProgrammersMCU-Link Debug Probe
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Emulators, Probes, and ProgrammersMCU-Link Pro Debug Probe
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 and SEGGER®.
For consideration to participate in Beta program please contact your local NXP representative and request access here.
Software Details
Diagram
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 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
Supported Devices
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Processors and Microcontrollers
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Arm Microcontrollers
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i.MX RT Crossover MCUs
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Kinetis® E Series: 5V, Robust Microcontrollers (MCUs) based on Arm® Cortex®-M0+/M4 Core
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LPC800 Series: Low-Cost Microcontrollers (MCUs) based on Arm® Cortex®-M0+ Cores
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LPC54000 Series: Power-Efficient Microcontrollers (MCUs) Based on Arm® Cortex®-M4 Core
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LPC5500 Series: Arm® Cortex®-M33 based Microcontroller Series for Mass Market, Leveraging 40nm Embedded Flash Technology
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Kinetis® K6x Ethernet Microcontrollers (MCUs) based on Arm
® Cortex®-M4 Core
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System Requirements
- Visual Studio Code Version 1.75.1 or later
- MCUXpresso SDK v2.13 or later
Design Resources
Related Software
2 software files
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BSP, Drivers and Middleware
MCUXpresso Software Development Kit (SDK)
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BSP, Drivers and Middleware
MCUXpresso Config Tools: Pins, Clocks and Peripherals
Note: For better experience, software downloads are recommended on desktop.