Prototyping kit accelerates IoT design process

The LPCXpresso family of boards provides a powerful and flexible development system for NXP's Arm Cortex-M family of MCUs. The LPCXpresso51U68 Development Board for the LPC51U68 MCU has been designed to enable evaluation and prototyping using the high-performance Cortex-M0+ core, plus the power-efficiency and cost-sensitive capabilities provided by the MCU device. The board also features an on-board, CMSIS-DAP/SEGGER J-Link compatible debug probe.

Other key features include:

• Link2 probe that can be used with on-board LPC51U68 or external target
• Support for external debug probes
• Tri-colour LED
• Target reset, ISP, and wake buttons
• Expansion options based on Arduino UNO and PMod, plus additional expansion port pins
• On-board 1.8/3.3V or external power supply options
• Built-in power consumption measurement
• UART, I2C and SPI port bridging from LPC51U68 target to USB via the on-board debug probe
• FTDI UART connector

NXP’s Rapid IoT Prototyping Kit is a comprehensive, secure and power-optimised solution designed to accelerate prototyping and development of an IoT end node.

Rapid IoT integrates 11 NXP devices (microcontroller, low-power connectivity, sensors, NFC, secure element, power management, interface) in a small form-factor hardware design, and combines it with proven software enablement (drivers, RTOS, middleware, cloud connect) and a web IDE with GUI based programming.

Key features include:

• Kinetis K64 MCU based on Arm Cortex-M4 Core
• KW41Z Wireless MCU (BLE, Thread, Zigbee)
• NT3H2211 NFC Forum Type 2 Tag
• A1006 Secure Authentication & anti-counterfeit IC
• Multiple sensors (Gyroscope, Acc/Mag., Barometer/Temp., Air Quality, Ambient light and capacitive touch)
• Rapid IoT Studio IDE
• Automatic source code & project generation for MCUXpresso IDE/SDK
• iOS/Android mobile apps and IoT Cloud connect platforms
• Expandable to most IoT end-node use cases with 400+ Click boards
• Compatible with NXP IoT Modular Gateway