NXP Acquires Code Red Technologies

NXP Semiconductors N.V. NXPI today announced its acquisition of Code Red Technologies, an embedded software development tools provider, as a strategic addition to its microcontroller business line. Code Red Technologies is recognized industry-wide for innovative tools enabling rapid development and debugging of full-featured applications for 32-bit ARM® microcontrollers. These tools include the popular LPCXpresso IDE (integrated development environment) -- a very low-cost, end-to-end development platform for NXP LPC microcontrollers -- enabling embedded developers to develop applications from initial evaluation through to final production. The financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed.