IAR Systems has introduced a development kit of NXP's LPC1768 Cortex-M3 microcontroller.
The kit includes IAR Embedded Workbench for ARM, example applications, a development board fitted with the microcontroller, evaluation editions of PowerPac, visualSTATE, and a separate J-Link debug probe.
On board is a 3-axis accelerometer, a temperature sensor, inputs for external sensors, an SD/MMC card slot, Ethernet connector and transceiver, different USB connectors, microphone and headset connectors, a CAN bus and 2 UART DB9 connectors.
There is also a JTAG/SWD 20 pin interface and ETM v3 trace connector, an external power connector, potentiometer, colour LCD display and user LEDs. Two buttons are included to simulate external events and a joystick is also provided.
The chip runs at 100MHz and includes Ethernet, USB On-The-Go/Host/Device and CAN, which can run simultaneously.
LPC1768 is aimed at eMetering, lighting, industrial networking, alarm systems, white goods and motor control.