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Cortex-M0 based development board for professional prototyping of microcontroller-based systems

RS Components has announced availability of the NXP LPC11U24 32bit ARM Cortex-M0 based mbed embedded development board for professional prototyping of microcontroller-based systems. The microcontroller is suitable for prototyping low-cost USB devices, battery-powered applications and 32bit ARM Cortex-M0 based designs. It is packaged as a small DIP form-factor for prototyping with through-hole PCBs, stripboards and breadboards, and includes a built-in USB drag 'n' drop flash programmer. The microcontrollers are supported with an online tools platform available at both mbed.org and designspark.com that provides experienced embedded developers with a productive environment for building proof-of-concepts, says the company. The development board helps in building projects with the backing of libraries, resources and support shared in the mbed.org developer community, including a lightweight online compiler for instant access to a working environment on Windows, Linux or Mac OS X; a C/C++ software development kit for high-level programming of peripherals; in addition to a wealth of libraries and code examples.

The microcontroller runs at 48MHz and device peripherals include 32kbyte of flash memory, up to 8kbyte of SRAM data memory, configurable full-speed USB 2.0 device controller; one fast-mode Plus I2C-bus interface, two SPI interfaces, UART, six ADCs and 54 GPIO pins.