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Build, RunLet's take your LPCXpresso54608 board for a test drive! You have the choice of watching the sequence in a short video or following the detailed actions list below.
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Your LPCXpresso54618 CAN-FD kit comes preloaded with a CAN loopback test that attempts to transfer data between the two CAN/CAN-FD ports of the LPC54618 device. As the test runs, LED1 and LED2 light alternately and LED3 lights when the test is complete. If test passes then all these LEDs will stay lit, if it fails then only LED3 will stay on. A female-to-female, straight-through cable need to be connected between the two DB9 connectors of the shield board in order to complete the loopback connection, otherwise the test will fail.
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The MCUXpresso Software Development Kit (SDK) is complimentary and includes full source code under a permissive open-source license for all hardware abstraction and peripheral driver software.
Click below to download a pre-configured SDK release for the LPCXpresso54608, which includes versions for MCUXpresso IDE, Keil MDK and IAR EWARM.
Get SDKYou can also use the online MCUXpresso web tool to create a custom SDK package for the LPCXpresso54608 using the SDK builder.
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NXP offers a free, GNU/Eclipse based toolchain called MCUXpresso IDE.
Get MCUXpresso IDENo problem! The MCUXpresso SDK includes support for other tools such as IAR and Keil.
To set up your LPCXpresso54608 for use with 3rd party tools, first install LPCScrypt in order to install the board’s device drivers. The video below shows how to use LPCScrypt to program your board’s debug probe using this utility.
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The MCUXpresso Config Tool is an integrated suite of configuration tools that guides users in creating new MCUXpresso SDK projects, and provides pin and clock tools to generate initialization C code for custom board support.
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Most of the MCUXpresso SDK examples set up for IAR and Keil tools use the MCU UART for printf output, and this is also an option for the MCUXpresso IDE. If you are not sure how to use a terminal application try one of the tutorials under the Proyects and Tutorials section.
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The MCUXpresso SDK comes with a long list of example applications code.
To see what's available, browse to the
SDK boards folder of your SDK installation and select
your board, the LPCXpresso54608 (/boards/lpcxpresso54608
).
To learn more about specific example code, open the readme.txt file in an example's directory.
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If one or more of the demo applications or driver examples sounds interesting, you're probably wanting to know how you can build and debug yourself. The Getting Started with SDK v.2.0 for LPC546xx guide provides easy, step-by-step instructions on how to configure, build, and debug demos for all toolchains supported by the SDK.
Use the guide below to learn how to open, build and debug an example application using the MCUXpresso IDE.
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The following steps will guide you through opening the led_output application. These steps may change slightly for other example applications as some of these applications may have additional layers of folders in their path.
If not already done, open the desired example application workspace. Most example application workspace files can be located using the following path:
<install_dir>/boards/<sdk_board_name>/<example_type>/<application_name>/iar</application_name></example_type></sdk_board_name></install_dir>
Using the hello_world demo as an example, the path is:
/boards/lpcxpresso54608/driver_examples/gpio/led_output/iar
Select the desired build target from the drop-down. For this example, select the “hello_world – Debug” target
To build the application, click the “Make” button, highlighted in red below
The build will complete without errors:
The LPCXpresso54608 board comes loaded with the CMSIS-DAP debug interface from the factory. Connect the development platform to your PC via USB cable to J8 “Debug Link”
Click the "Download and Debug" button to download the application to the target
The application is then downloaded to the target and automatically runs to the main() function
Run the code by clicking the "Go" button to start the application
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The following steps will guide you through opening the led_output application. These steps may change slightly for other example applications as some of these applications may have additional layers of folders in their path.
If not already done, open the desired example application workspace. Most example application workspace files can be located using the following path:
<install_dir>/boards/<sdk_board_name>/<example_type>/<application_name>/iar</application_name></example_type></sdk_board_name></install_dir>
Using the hello_world demo as an example, the path is:
/boards/lpcxpresso54608/driver_examples/gpio/led_output/iar
Select the desired build target from the drop-down. For this example, select the “hello_world – Debug” target
To build the application, click the “Make” button, highlighted in red below:
The build will complete without errors:
The LPCXpresso54608 board comes loaded with the CMSIS-DAP debug interface from the factory. Connect the development platform to your PC via USB cable to J8 “Debug Link”
Click the "Download and Debug" button to download the application to the target
The application is then downloaded to the target and automatically runs to the main() function
Run the code by clicking the "Go" button to start the application
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Tera Term is a very popular open source terminal emulation application. This program can be used to display information sent from your NXP development platform's virtual serial port.
PuTTY is a popular terminal emulation application. This program can be used to display information sent from your NXP development platform's virtual serial port.
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