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NXP Cortex-M0 LPC1100 Design Challenge Receives Record Number of Designs

24th August 2010

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NXP Semiconductors and EE Times have completed the Cortex-M0 LPC1100 Design Challenge by announcing the final four winners. The challenge resulted in over 500 LPCXpresso enabled designs from over 40 countries and has fostered a social community with 1600 members and received over 25,000 unique web visitors. All qualified contestants received LPCXpresso development systems with integrated LPC-Link which provided a common Eclipse based platform for software development and enabled seamless system integration into their final designs. Using LPCXpresso, contestants explored the capabilities of the Cortex-M0 LPC1100 and showed through their exciting designs what they could do with 65c.

The contest also revolved around giving the contestants a voice towards the future development of LPCXpresso. Most of the contestants voted for the development to be supported on a wider range of computing platforms. NXP has already taken this into account and will be launching Linux support on 20th September at ESC Boston 2010, and will continue to develop and enhance the features of LPXpresso to support other platforms.

“With the Cortex-M0 LPC1100 Design Challenge, NXP and EE Times have extended the success of the LPCXpresso development platform,” said Geoff Lees, vice president and general manager, microcontroller product line, NXP Semiconductors. “LPCXpresso has shipped to over 10,000 customers in just six months proving that Eclipse- based tools are becoming more and more viable and popular for sub dollar microcontroller development.”