MCUXpresso Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

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The MCUXpresso IDE brings developers an easy-to-use Eclipse-based development environment for NXP® MCUs based on Arm® Cortex®-M cores, including its general purpose crossover and wireless - enabled MCUs. The MCUXpresso IDE offers advanced editing, compiling, and debugging features with the addition of MCU-specific debugging views, code trace and profiling, multicore debugging, and integrated configuration tools. The MCUXpresso IDE debug connections support Freedom, Tower® system, LPCXpresso, i.MX RT-based EVKs, and your custom development boards with optimized open-source and commercial debug probes from NXP, P&E Micro®, and SEGGER®.

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Features

Power with ease-of-use

  • Built on the highly popular Eclipse platform, highly extensible using widely available plug-ins
  • Advanced editing with syntax coloring
  • Use built-in SDK selection tool, or drag and drop pre-built packages made with SDK Builder
  • Industry-standard GNU toolchain with a choice of libraries: optimized C library or the standard GNU Newlib / Nano library with support for semihosting
  • New Project Wizards and easy SDK example importing
  • Integrated configuration tools, including pins, clocks, peripheral and trusted execution tools
  • Integrated GUI Flash Programming Tool

Advanced debug capabilities

  • Github project development support
  • SWO trace and profiling (via SEGGER J-Link, PE Micro, MCU-Link or LPC-Link2 probes)
  • Instruction trace (for ETB / MTB enabled devices)
  • Rich viewing capabilities for Peripheral Registers, Global Variables, Textual / Graphical Live Variables
  • Support for FreeRTOS and Azure RTOS ThreadX aware debugging
  • Image Info view gives detailed overall memory usage, memory regions content and static call graphs including stack usage information
  • Heap and Stack Usage view to track heap and stack usage of bare metal projects
  • Energy/power/current measurement with profiling and code instrumentation (where supported by hardware)

Host support

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

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