NXP Semiconductors Releases LPCXpresso 6

NXP Semiconductors N.V.

today released LPCXpresso 6 – a major update to the popular integrated development environment (IDE) for NXP's LPC microcontrollers, based on Eclipse. LPCXpresso 6 introduces many new features as a direct result of NXP's acquisition of Code Red Technologies – the makers of Red Suite – earlier this year. NXP has doubled the download limit for the Free Edition to 256 kB, and has introduced a new Pro Edition of LPCXpresso providing unlimited code size downloads and one year of email-based support, directly from NXP engineers. More than 100,000 LPCXpresso development boards have been shipped in the three years since they were first introduced by NXP with Embedded Artists. Together with the LPC-Link2 debug adapter, LPCXpresso 6 provides a powerful family of tools, software and debug support for all NXP LPC microcontrollers based on the ARM® processor platform. “Support for the larger debug code size and the addition of new features in the Free Edition of LPCXpresso 6 are great news for developers – a move which will continue to