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Smart IoT Sensing Development Tools[NGS-IOT-SENSING-SDK]Getting Started
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IoT Sensing Software Development Kit (ISSDK): Embedded Software Framework
As of February 2, 2026, NXP MEMS sensor products have been transitioned to STMicroelectronics. For more information, contact STMicroelectronics.
The IoT Sensing Software Development Kit (ISSDK) is the embedded software framework for the Sensor Toolbox ecosystem enabling NXP's digital and analog sensors platforms for IoT applications. ISSDK provides a unified set of sensor support models that target NXP’s portfolio of sensors across a broad range of NXP’s Arm® Cortex®-M cores based microcontrollers including NXP’s LPC, Kinetis and i.MX RT crossover platforms. ISSDK combines a set of robust sensor drivers and algorithms along with example applications to allow users to get started with using NXP sensors. It is offered as a middleware option in the MCUXpresso Config Tools.
The latest version of ISSDK (Version 1.8.0) further enhances the embedded application development experience with NXP sensors and extends NXP’s sensor support for NXP’s new microcontroller offerings. ISSDK is available in custom MCUXpresso SDK downloads based on user selections of supported Kits or Boards and provides reference software to accelerate end-user prototyping and development on NXP’s sensor platforms.
Sensors supported:
ISSDK supported sensors and development kits are
listed in the ISSDK
Release Notes.
Software Details
Features
System Features
- Enables rapid prototyping and production applications using NXP sensors.
- Provides NXP’s sensor register definitions, register access interfaces and sensor level multiple register read/write interfaces.
- Enables easy porting across broad range of NXP’s Arm Cortex M based Microcontrollers by using Arm CMSIS Driver APIs.
- Leverages MCUXpresso SDK (Kinetis, LPC and i.MX SDK) drivers and release infrastructure.
- Provides out-of-box examples and reference software demonstrating configuration and usage of sensors in various supported modes along with application examples using NXP’s sensors.
- Supports multiple toolchains: MCUXpresso, IAR, KEIL MDK, Arm GCC.
- Provides bare metal and FreeRTOS based reference examples using NXP’s sensors.
- Provides reference algorithm examples, libraries and interfaces to access algorithms like sensor fusion and pedometer.
- Supports sensor data visualization and data analysis using STB-CE software.
- Supports multiple toolchains
- Additional development tools to assist, MCUXpresso Software and Tools.
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