LPC3180 - Development Tools

Development Tools

Flash programming via UART (Free)

All LPC microcontrollers have a ROM'ed bootloader that supports loading a binary image into its flash memory using one or more peripherals (varies by family). Since all LPC bootloaders support loading from the UART peripheral and most boards connect a UART to RS-232 or a USB-to-UART adapter IC, thus it's a universal method to program the LPC microcontrollers. Some microcontrollers requires the target board to have a way to enable/disable booting from the ROM'ed bootloader (i.e. jumper / switch / button).

  • Flash Magic, an program for Windows and Mac OS to perform in-system programming of the LPC flash via its UART.


Development toolchains (IDE / compiler / linker / debugger)
  • TASKING VX-Toolset by Altium.
  • TrueSTUDIO by Atollic.
  • GNU Tools for ARM Embedded Processors by Canonical.
  • Red Suite by Code Red.
  • Embedded Workbench for ARM by IAR.
  • MDK-ARM by Keil.
  • Ride and RKit for ARM by Raisonance.
  • CrossWorks for ARM by Rowley.
  • Sourcery CodeBench by Mentor Graphics.
  • YAGARTO (GNU for ARM).
Debugging tools (JTAG / SWD)
  • LPC-LINK by Embedded Artists and NXP.
  • J-Link family by Segger.
  • RLink family by Raisonance.
  • ULINK family by Keil.
  • JTAGjet family by Signum.
  • I-jet by IAR.
  • Multilink Universal family by P&E Micro
  • OpenOCD open source GDB server supports a variety of JTAG probes.
    • AK-OPENJTAG by Artekit (Open JTAG-compatible).
    • AK-LINK by Artekit.


Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS)
  • BeRTOS
  • ChibiOS/RT
  • CoOS
  • eCos
  • FreeRTOS, OpenRTOS, SafeRTOS
  • FunkOS
  • Milos
  • Nucleus
  • RT-Thread
  • ScmRTOS
  • SDPOS
  • ThreadX
  • µC/OS-II, µC/OS-III
  • µTasker
  • Unison
3rd-Party C/C++ software libraries (Free)
  • ARM Cortex libraries
    • Cortex Microcontroller Software Interface Standard (CMSIS)
  • Alternate C standard libraries
    • dietlibc, Newlib
  • FAT file system libraries
    • FatFs, Petit FatFs
  • Fixed-Point math libraries
    • libfixmath


Non C/C++ computer languages
  • Lua - eLua.
  • Python - Python-on-a-chip.
  • Oberon - Astrobe.
  • BASIC - Coridium.
  • Pascal - mikroPascal.

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