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^®.

User Guide

Software Details

Diagram

MCUXpresso IDE Block Diagram

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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

Supported Devices

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Processors and Microcontrollers
- Arm Microcontrollers
  - LPC4000 Series: Mid-range Microcontrollers (MCUs) based on Arm^® Cortex^®-M4 Cores
    - LPC4088FBD144
    - LPC4076FET180
    - LPC4088FBD208
    - LPC4078FBD100
    - LPC4088FET208
    - LPC4078FBD80
    - LPC4078FET180
    - LPC4078FBD208
    - LPC4078FBD144
    - LPC4078FET208
    - LPC4076FBD144
    - LPC4072FET80
    - LPC4074FBD144
    - LPC4074FBD80
    - LPC4088FET180
  - LPC1800 Series: High-Performance Microcontrollers (MCUs) based on Arm^® Cortex^®-M3 Cores
    - LPC18S57JET256
    - LPC1830FET100
    - LPC1833JET100
    - LPC18S30FET100
    - LPC1837JET100
    - LPC1833JBD144
    - LPC1827JET100
    - LPC1830FET256
    - LPC1850FET180
    - LPC1850FET256
    - LPC1857JET256
    - LPC1833JET256
    - LPC1857JBD208
    - LPC1857FET256
    - LPC1853JET256
    - LPC18S10FBD144
    - LPC1853JBD208
    - LPC18S10FET100
    - LPC18S50FET180
    - LPC18S57JBD208
    - LPC18S50FET256
    - LPC18S37JBD144
    - LPC1837JET256
    - LPC1853FET256
    - LPC1830FBD144
    - LPC18S30FBD144
    - LPC1810FBD144
    - LPC1830FET180
    - LPC18S30FET256
    - LPC1833FET256
    - LPC1837JBD144
    - LPC1837FET256
    - LPC18S37JET100
  - Kinetis^® L Series: Ultra-Low Power Microcontrollers (MCUs) based on Arm^® Cortex^®-M0+ Core
    - KL28
    - KL3x
    - KL1x
    - KL4x
    - KL2x
    - KL0x
  - i.MX RT Crossover MCUs
    - i.MX-RT1024
    - i.MX-RT600
    - i.MX-RT1020
    - i.MX-RT1050
    - i.MX-RT1015
    - i.MX-RT1160
    - i.MX-RT1060
    - i.MX-RT500
    - i.MX-RT1010
    - i.MX-RT1064
    - i.MX-RT1170
  - Kinetis^® K4x USB and Segment LCD Microcontrollers (MCUs) based on Arm^® Cortex^®-M4 Core
    - K40_100
    - K40_72
  - LPC1700 Series: Scalable Mainstream Microcontrollers (MCUs) based on Arm^® Cortex^®-M3 Cores
    - LPC1788FBD208
    - LPC1778FET208
    - LPC1787FBD208
    - LPC1788FET208
    - LPC1768FBD100
    - LPC1776FET180
    - LPC1777FBD208
    - LPC1774FBD144
    - LPC1786FBD208
    - LPC1768FET100
    - LPC1776FBD208
    - LPC1774FBD208
    - LPC1788FBD144
    - LPC1769FBD100
    - LPC1788FET180
    - LPC1778FBD208
    - LPC1785FBD208
    - LPC1778FBD144
    - LPC1768UK
    - LPC1778FET180
    - LPC1767FBD100
  - Kinetis^® K2x USB Microcontrollers (MCUs) based on Arm^® Cortex^®-M4 Core
    - K21_120
    - K20_72
    - K24_120
    - K26_180
    - K22_100
    - K20_120
    - K20_100
    - K28_150
    - K21_50
    - K22_50
    - K22_120
    - K20_50
    - K27_150
  - LPC4300 Series: High-Performance Microcontrollers (MCUs) based on Arm^® Cortex^®-M4/M0 Cores
    - LPC4333JET256
    - LPC43S70FET256
    - LPC4333JBD144
    - LPC4350FET180
    - LPC4327JET100
    - LPC4353JBD208
    - LPC43S50FET256
    - LPC4333JET100
    - LPC4327JBD144
    - LPC4312JET100
    - LPC4315JET100
    - LPC4350FET256
    - LPC4367JET256
    - LPC4367JBD208
    - LPC4337JET256
    - LPC43S20FBD144
    - LPC4367JET100
    - LPC4353JET256
    - LPC4330FBD144
    - LPC4320FBD144
    - LPC43S50FET180
    - LPC4357JBD208
    - LPC4333FET256
    - LPC4325JET100
    - LPC43S37JBD144
    - LPC4353FET256
    - LPC43S67JET256
    - LPC43S30FET256
    - LPC4337JET100
    - LPC4312JBD144
    - LPC4337FET256
    - LPC43S30FBD144
    - LPC4313JET100
    - LPC4322JBD144
    - LPC4320FET100
    - LPC4323JBD144
    - LPC4357FET256
    - LPC43S67JBD208
    - LPC4322JET100
    - LPC43S20FET180
    - LPC4330FET180
    - LPC4315JBD144
    - LPC4313JBD144
    - LPC4310FET100
    - LPC43S70FET100
    - LPC4323JET100
    - LPC4370FET100
    - LPC43S37JET100
    - LPC43S30FET100
    - LPC4357JET256
    - LPC4317JET100
    - LPC4310FBD144
    - LPC43S57JBD208
    - LPC4330FET100
    - LPC4337JBD144
    - LPC4370FET256
    - LPC4325JBD144
    - LPC4330FET256
    - LPC4317JBD144
    - LPC43S57JET256
    - LPC43S67JET100
  - Kinetis^® E Series: 5V, Robust Microcontrollers (MCUs) based on Arm^® Cortex^®-M0+/M4 Core
    - KE06
    - KE02_40
    - KE04
    - KE02
  - Kinetis^® K1x Mainstream Microcontrollers (MCUs) based on Arm^® Cortex^®-M4 Core
    - K10_120
    - K12_50
    - K10_100
    - K11_50
    - K10_50
    - K10_72
  - LPC5500 Series: Arm^® Cortex^®-M33 based Microcontroller Series for Mass Market, Leveraging 40nm Embedded Flash Technology
    - LPC55S6x
    - LPC550x
  - Kinetis^® K6x Ethernet Microcontrollers (MCUs) based on Arm^® Cortex^®-M4 Core
    - K60_120
    - K60_100
    - K63_120
    - K64_120
    - K66_180
  - LPC800 Series: Low-Cost Microcontrollers (MCUs) based on Arm^® Cortex^®-M0+ Cores
    - LPC84X
    - LPC8N04
    - LPC82X
    - LPC80X
  - General Purpose MCUs
    - LPC51U68
  - K32 L Series: Ultra-Low Power Microcontrollers (MCUs) Optimized for Low-Leakage Applications
    - K32-L3
    - K32-L2
  - Kinetis^® K3x Segment LCD Microcontrollers (MCUs) based on Arm^® Cortex^®-M4 Core
    - K30_72
    - K30_100
  - Kinetis^® K5x Measurement Microcontrollers (MCUs) based on Arm^® Cortex^®-M4 Core
    - K50_100
    - K51_100
    - K53_100
    - K50_72
    - K51_72
  - KEA: Ultra-Reliable KEA Automotive Microcontrollers (MCUs) based on ARM® Cortex®-M0+ Core
    - KEA
  - Kinetis^® K8x Secure Microcontrollers (MCUs) based on Arm^® Cortex^®-M4 Core
    - K82_150
    - K80_150
  - Kinetis^® K0x Entry-level Microcontrollers (MCUs) based on Arm^® Cortex^®-M4 Core
    - K02_100
  - Kinetis^® K7x Graphic LCD Microcontrollers (MCUs) based on Arm^® Cortex^®-M4 Core
    - K70_120
  - LPC54000 Series: Power-Efficient Microcontrollers (MCUs) Based on Arm^® Cortex^®-M4 Core
    - LPC546XX
    - LPC540XX
- Legacy MCUs/MPUs
  - ColdFire^® V1 Core: 8-Bit Ease of Use, 32-Bit Performance
    - MCF51AC
    - MCF51MM
    - MCF51JE
    - MCF51QE
    - MCF51JM
  - ColdFire^® V3 Embedded Processors
    - MCF530X
    - MCF537X
    - MCF532X
    - MCF5301x
  - ColdFire V2 Embedded Processors and Microcontrollers
    - MCF527X
    - MCF525X
    - MCF523X
    - MCF5227X
    - MCF520X
    - MCF524X
  - ColdFire^® V4 Embedded Processors
    - MCF547X
    - MCF548X
    - MCF5441X
    - MCF540X
    - MCF5445X
  - ColdFire^® V2 Microcontrollers (MCUs)
    - MCF528X
    - MCF5223X
    - MCF5225X
    - MCF5222X
    - MCF521XX
    - MCF521X
    - MCF5221X
  - ColdFire+ MCUs
    - MCF51Jx
    - MCF51CN128
    - MCF51AG
    - MCF51EM
    - MCF51Qx
- Additional Architectures
  - 16-bit DSC | 56800E Core
    - 56F832X_812X
    - 56F836X-816X
    - 56F824X_825X
    - 56F8335_8135
    - 56F834X-814X
    - 56F803X
    - 56F801X
    - 56F802X
    - 56F800x
Wireless Connectivity
- Bluetooth Low Energy
  - Bluetooth^® Smart/Bluetooth Low Energy
- Zigbee
  - JN5189_88_T
  - KW21Z
- Wireless Microcontrollers
  - Multiprotocol MCUs
    - K32W061_41
    - KW41Z
Power Management
- Wireless Power
  - MWCT1x0x
RFID
- NFC (HF)
  - NTAG^® SmartSensor
    - NHS3152
    - NHS3100
Sensors
- Accelerometers
  - FXLS8964AF

System Requirements

SDK v2.12 requires IDE V11.6.x or later
SDK v2.11 requires IDE V11.5.x or later
SDK v2.10 requires IDE V11.4.x or later
SDK v2.9 requires IDE v11.3.x or later
SDK v2.8 requires IDE v11.2.x or later
SDK v2.7 requires IDE v11.1.x or later
SDK v2.6 requires IDE v11.0.x or later
SDK v2.5 requires IDE v10.3.x or later
SDK v2.4 requires IDE v10.2.x or later
SDK v2.3 requires IDE v10.1.x or later
SDK v2.2 requires IDE v10.0.x or later

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^{User Guide}
MCUXpresso Config Tools User's Guide (IDE)updated

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^{User Guide}
MCUXpresso IDE - User Guideupdated

PDFRev 11.6.0Jul 14, 202219.9 MBMCUXPRESSO-UGEnglish, 中文
^{Fact Sheet}
MCUXpresso IDE Fact Sheetupdated

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MCUXpresso Software and Tools Fact Sheet

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^{Quick Reference Guide}
MCUXpresso IDE Installation Guideupdated

PDFRev 11.6.0Jul 14, 2022467.7 KBMCUXPRESSO-IGEnglish
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MCUXpresso IDE Instruction Trace Guideupdated

PDFRev 11.6.0Jul 14, 2022865.1 KBMCUXPRESSO-ITEnglish
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MCUXpresso IDE Power Profile Guidenew

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MCUXpresso IDE Azure RTOS ThreadX Debug Guideupdated

PDFRev 11.6.0Jul 14, 20221.7 MBMCUXPRESSO-IDE-AZURERTOSTHREADX-DGEnglish
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MCUXpresso IDE SWO Trace Guideupdated

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MCUXpresso IDE Zephyr RTOS Debug Guidenew

PDFRev 11.6.0Jul 14, 2022764.1 KBMCUXPRESSO-IDE-ZEPHYRRTOS-DGEnglish
^{Quick Reference Guide}
MCUXpresso IDE LinkServer Energy Measurement Guideupdated

PDFRev 11.6.0Jul 14, 202212.6 MBMCUXPRESSO-EMEnglish
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MCUXpresso IDE FreeRTOS Debug Guideupdated

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MCUXpresso IDE Command Line User Guideupdated

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^{Release Note}
MCUXpresso IDE V11.6.0 - Release Notesupdated

PDFRev 11.6.0Jul 14, 2022330.2 KBMCUXPRESS-IDE-RNEnglish
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MCUXpresso IDE - Release Notes Addendum

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