NXP LPC553x/S3x | Avnet Silica

The LPC553x/S3x MCU family further expands the world’s first general purpose Cortex-M33-based MCU series, offering significant performance enhancement, all on-chip RAM with Parity or ECC, renewed security features and precision analog additions, leveraging the cost-effective 40-nm NVM process technology.

The LPC553x/S3x family includes a proprietary DSP accelerator offering 10x clock cycle reduction, bringing significant signal processing efficiency gains.

LPC55S3x is LPC553x/S3x sub-family with integrated advanced security. While LPC553x has been launched in 2022, LPC55S3x and EVK are fully available since August 2023. 

Key features

• High-efficient 40-nm flash technology with 112kB Parity + 16kB ECC RAM
• Over 600 Core Mark (4.17 /MHz running in Flash with Cache) and active power as low as 42 uA/MHz
• Enhanced safety and security with TrustZone-M
• System Integration with DSP acceleration –Cordic engine providing >3.5X improvement for Motor Control Applications
• High-precision & fast ADCs, instrumentation class OpAmp with programmable gain up to 64x, and DAC
• Motor Control PWM and Quad Encoder/Decoder
• Comprehensive enablement with MCUXpresso Ecosystem

Applications 

• Industrial
  • Motor Control
  • Power Inverters
• Smart Home 
  • Home Control: Secure Access Control and Security Systems
  • Appliances
  • Power Tools
• Security Specific Application (LPC55S3x)
  • Servers
  • Wireless Systems

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