One reason ARM has become the fastest growing 32-bit architecture in the world is the broad ecosystem of tools and support available. The devices are also supported by a number of IDE or integrated design environment and compilers, including, but not limited to ARM, Code Red, Hitex, IAR and of course, NXP’s LPCXpresso an Eclipse-based IDE. For debugging, the series are supported by any JTAG debugger that supports Cortex-M3. The LPC1800 series is supported by multiple evaluation boards, such as Hitex’s evaluation board LPC1800. The ARM® Cortex™ microcontroller software interface standard or CMSIS is a vendor-independent hardware abstraction layer for the Cortex-M processor series. NXP provides CMSIS compliant peripheral libraries for the LPC1800.