Engineers have often been on the receiving end of the meeting invitation shown on this slide. In today’s world of fast-turn electronic designs, it is more important than ever to find creative ways to improve the design process at every phase of development. Choosing a microcontroller with flexible pin assignment capability can help expedite the design definition, provide an easy route for mitigating changes in requirements, and offer countermeasures to unexpected issues. If a product needs to have a new feature added, is the function available on the open pins or is it necessary to start again to make room in the pin configuration? Find a mistake in the signal definitions and wish there was a simple way to avoid cuts and jumps on the hardware? NXP’s LPC800 and LPC1500 series microcontrollers include unique features to help solve these problems and more.