IAR Systems has launched KickStart kit for NXP LPC1114, a commercial starter kit for ARM Cortex-M0-based microcontrollers.
The company said that the NXP LPC11xx Cortex-M0 family is 100% pin compatible with the NXP LPC13xx Cortex-M3 family. The KickStart Kit contains hardware and software for engineers to design, develop, integrate and test Cortex-M0 applications.
The company claims that the NXP LPC111x family of devices are 32-bit MCUs designed for 8/16-bit applications and offer low power consumption, an instruction set and memory addressing together with small code size.
According to IAR, the new offering includes a development board fitted with the LPC1114 microcontroller, an 8K KickStart edition of IAR embedded workbench for ARM, and a 20-state evaluation edition of IAR visualSTATE. It also provides debug support through IAR J-Link-OB, a standard JTAG connector or a small SWD connector and is powered via the USB interface.
The company said that the new kit also provides some user configurable devices such as a small LCD, buttons and LEDs, analog trim wheel, buzzer, a prototyping area and the UART pins routed to a DB9 connector.
In addition, IAR J-Link-OB is a small board mounted JTAG/SWD debug interface that connects through USB to the PC host running Windows. It integrates into IAR Embedded Workbench, which is an integrated development environment with a set of C/C++ cross compiler and debugger tools for professional embedded applications. It contains project manager, editor, linker and librarian tools, C-SPY debugger, full integration with IAR J-Link, complete upgrade path available from IAR Systems, the company said.
Fredrik Medin, marketing director of IAR Systems, said: “We are very excited to have the first starter kit for NXP new family based on the ARM Cortex-M0 processor. NXP LPC1114 has a small footprint and very low power consumption; we believe that the new family will become very popular silicon on the embedded market.”