NXP Semiconductors LPC550x/S0x MCU family

The baseline LPC550x/S0x MCU family, with its lower-cost options and smaller footprint, further expands the existing general-purpose LPC5500 MCU series. Its advanced security and safety integration offer applications an extra level of protection.

Offering excellent ecosystem advantages for developers, including pin, software, and peripheral-compatibility in addition to a comprehensive portfolio of software and tools, the LPC550x/S0x MCU family helps accelerate time to market.

Key features

• Arm® Cortex®-M33, high-efficient 40-nm technology, over 384 Core Mark
• System integration for industrial and IoT markets: high-precision ADCs, CAN-FD
• Enhanced safety and security with Arm® TrustZone®-M technology
• Comprehensive enablement with MCUXpresso ecosystem

Additional features

• Core Platform:
  • Up to 96MHz Cortex^®-M33
  • Multilayer Bus Matrix
• Memory:
  • Up to 256KB FLASH
  • Up to 96KB RAM
  • 128KB ROM
• Timers:
  • 5 x 32-bit timers
  • SCTimer/PWM
  • Multi-Rate Timer
  • Windowed Watchdog Timer
  • RTC
  • Micro Timer
• Interfaces:
  • 1 x high-speed SPI up to 50MHz
  • 8 x Flexcomms support up to 8 x SPI, 8 x I²C, 8 x UART, 4 x I²S channels (total 8 instances)
  • CAN-FD (LPC55S0x), CAN 2.0 on LPC550x
• Advanced Security:
  • TrustZone^®-M
  • Protected Flash Region (PFR)
  • AES-256 HW Encryption/Decryption Engine
  • SHA-2
  • CASPER Co-Processor for Asymmetric cryptography
  • SRAM PUF for Key Generation support
  • PRINCE – Real-time Encrypt/Decrypt for flash data
  • Secure debug authentication
  • RNG
• Analog:
  • 2 x16-bit ADC, up to 10 ch, 2 MSPS
  • Analog comparator
  • Temperature sensor
• Packages:
  • HTQFP64 (45 GPIO)
  • HVQFN48 (30 GPIO) *
• Other:
  • Buck DC-DC
  • Operating voltage: 1.8...3.6 V
  • Temperature range: -40...105 °C

Applications

• Industrial & Building Automation - Remote IO, Sensor Nodes
• Consumer Products - Gaming and PC Peripherals
• Smart Home - Secure/Biometric Access Control

Available tools

LPCXpresso55S06 Board (LPC55S06-EVK)

The LPCXpresso55S06 development board provides the ideal platform for evaluation of and development with the LPC550x/S0x MCU based on the Arm® Cortex®-M33 architecture. The board includes a high-performance onboard debug probe and accelerometer, with several options for adding off-the-shelf add-on boards for networking, sensors, displays, and other interfaces.

The LPCXpresso55S06 is fully supported by the MCUXpresso suite of tools, which provides device drivers, middleware and examples to allow rapid development, plus configuration tools and an optional free IDE. MCUXpresso software is compatible with the open source MCU operating system FreeRTOS, tools from popular tool vendors such as Arm and IAR, and the LPCXpresso55S06 may also be used with the popular debug probes available from SEGGER and P&E Micro.

Features

• LPC55S06 Arm Cortex-M33 microcontroller running at up to 96 MHz
• I2C, UART and SPI port from LPC55S06. CAN-FD transceiver and D-sub connector compatible with PCAN-USB FD adaptor
• Onboard, high-speed USB, Link2 debug probe with CMSIS-DAP and SEGGER J-Link protocol options 
• Hardware support for external debug probe  
• NXP MMA8652FCR1 accelerometer
• MikroElectronica Click expansion option
• LPCXpresso-V3 expansion connectors compatible with Arduino UNO R3
• PMod compatible expansion/ host connector
• RGB user LED, plus Reset, ISP, Wake and user buttons