LPC1768 Cortex-M3 Microcontroller-based IRD

Future Designs' LPC1768 Cortex-M3 microcontroller based industrial reference design (IRD) is optimized to save development time in typical industrial control applications. Its modular format uses a base, core, and application board configuration for added flexibility. The kit is preconfigured to work with Keil uVision3 development environment, and example code for converting an ARM7 application to Cortex-M3 LPC176x microcontroller series devices.

Using cost effective Cortex-M3 microcontrollers as the basis for each platform means that designers can create competitive, highly differentiated products at a lower overall cost. The application board plugs directly into the base board via a common application connector and software configures the system for plug-and-play operation.

The industrial control platform includes an Cortex-M3 LPC1768 microcontroller core board running at 100MHz. The LPC1768 has 512kB of on-chip high speed Flash memory, 64kB of on-chip RAM, a 10/100 Ethernet Media Access Controller (MAC) port, a USB full speed device/host/OTG port, two CAN channels, and a collection of serial communications interfaces.

Features

• LPC1768 100MHz ARM Cortex-M3 microcontroller
• 10/100 Ethernet port
• USB Host or Device port
• Two CAN ports
• Serial interfaces (I2C, UART, SPI, I2S)
• Two RS-232 ports
• Parallel interface for display (4-line by 20-character LCD module included)
• I2C interface for keypad and other peripherals
• 5 V 2 A Power Supply (included) or USB Device Port powered
• Includes Keil uVision3 IDE software (60-day free trial version, 256 K code size limited) and ULINK-ME JTAG debugger
• Contains easy-to-use application documents for all hardware and software
• Platform is based on a modular design for maximum flexibility