LPCXpresso55S06

Overview

The LPCXpresso55S06 board provides the ideal platform for evaluation of the LPC55S0x/LPC550x MCU family, based on the Arm® Cortex®-M33 architecture. Arduino® UNO compatible shield connectors are included, with additional expansion ports around the Arduino footprint, along with a PMod/host interface port and MikroElektronika Click module site.

Hardware

  • LPC55S06 Arm® Cortex®-M33 microcontroller running at up to 96 MHz

  • 256 KB flash and 96 KB SRAM on-chip

  • LPC-Link2 debug high speed USB probe with VCOM port

  • MikroElektronika Click expansion option

  • LPCXpresso expansion connectors compatible with Arduino UNO

  • PMod compatible expansion / host connector

  • Reset, ISP, wake, and user buttons for easy testing of software functionality

  • Tri-color LED

  • UART header for external serial to USB cable

  • CAN Transceiver

  • NXP FXOS8700CQ accelerometer

For more information about the LPC55S06 SoC and LPCXPresso55S06 board, see:

Supported Features

The lpcxpresso55s06 board supports the hardware features listed below.

on-chip / on-board
Feature integrated in the SoC / present on the board.
2 / 2
Number of instances that are enabled / disabled.
Click on the label to see the first instance of this feature in the board/SoC DTS files.
vnd,foo
Compatible string for the Devicetree binding matching the feature.
Click on the link to view the binding documentation.

Note

For additional features not yet supported, please also refer to the LPCXPRESSO55S69 , which is the superset board in NXP’s LPC55xx series. NXP prioritizes enabling the superset board with NXP’s Full Platform Support for Zephyr. Therefore, the lpcxpresso55s69 board may have additional features already supported, which can also be re-used on this lpcxpresso55s06 board:

Connections and IOs

The LPC55S06 SoC has IOCON registers, which can be used to configure the functionality of a pin.

Name

Function

Usage

PIO0_5

GPIO

ISP SW4

PIO0_29

USART

USART RX

PIO0_30

USART

USART TX

PIO1_4

GPIO

RED LED

PIO1_6

GPIO

BLUE_LED

PIO1_7

GPIO

GREEN LED

PIO1_9

GPIO

USR SW3

PIO1_18

GPIO

Wakeup SW1

System Clock

The LPC55S06 SoC is configured to use the internal FRO at 96MHz as a source for the system clock. Other sources for the system clock are provided in the SOC, depending on your system requirements.

Serial Port

The LPC55S06 SoC has 8 FLEXCOMM interfaces for serial communication. One is configured as USART for the console and the remaining are not used.

Programming and Debugging

The lpcxpresso55s06 board supports the runners and associated west commands listed below.

flash debug

Build and flash applications as usual (see Building an Application and Run an Application for more details).

Configuring a Debug Probe

LinkServer is the default runner for this board. A debug probe is used for both flashing and debugging the board. This board is configured by default to use the integrated MCU-Link Onboard Debug Probe in the CMSIS-DAP mode. To use this probe with Zephyr, you need to install the LinkServer Debug Host Tools and make sure they are in your search path. Refer to the detailed overview about Application Debugging for additional information.

The integrated MCU-Link hardware can also be used as a J-Link probe with a firmware update, as described in MCU-Link JLink Onboard Debug Probe. The J-Link Debug Host Tools should be available in this case.

Configuring a Console

Connect a USB cable from your PC to J1 (LINK2), and use the serial terminal of your choice (minicom, putty, etc.) with the following settings:

  • Speed: 115200

  • Data: 8 bits

  • Parity: None

  • Stop bits: 1

Flashing

Here is an example for the Hello World application.

# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b lpcxpresso55s06 samples/hello_world
west flash

Open a serial terminal, reset the board (press the RESET button), and you should see the following message in the terminal:

***** Booting Zephyr OS v3.0.0 *****
Hello World! lpcxpresso55s06

Debugging

Here is an example for the Hello World application.

# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b lpcxpresso55s06 samples/hello_world
west debug

Open a serial terminal, step through the application in your debugger, and you should see the following message in the terminal:

***** Booting Zephyr OS zephyr-v3.0.0 *****
Hello World! lpcxpresso55s06

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