NXP LPCXPRESSO55S69

Overview

The LPCXpresso55S69 development board provides the ideal platform for evaluation of and development with the LPC55S6x MCU based on the Arm® Cortex®-M33 architecture. The board includes a high performance onboard debug probe, audio subsystem, and accelerometer, with several options for adding off-the-shelf add-on boards for networking, sensors, displays, and other interfaces.

LPCXPRESSO55S69

Hardware

  • LPC55S69 dual core Arm Cortex-M33 microcontroller running at up to 100 MHz

  • Onboard, high-speed USB, Link2 debug probe with CMSIS-DAP and SEGGER J-Link protocol options

  • UART and SPI port bridging from LPC55S69 target to USB via the onboard debug probe

  • Hardware support for external debug probe

  • 3 x user LEDs, plus Reset, ISP (3) and user buttons

  • Micro SD card slot (4-bit SDIO)

  • NXP MMA8652FCR1 accelerometer

  • Stereo audio codec with line in/out

  • High and full speed USB ports with micro A/B connector for host or device functionality

  • MikroEletronika Click expansion option

  • LPCXpresso-V3 expansion option compatible with Arduino UNO

  • PMod compatible expansion / host connector

For more information about the LPC55S69 SoC and LPCXPRESSO55S69 board, see:

Supported Features

NXP considers the LPCXpresso55S69 as the superset board for the LPC55xx series of MCUs. This board is a focus for NXP’s Full Platform Support for Zephyr, to better enable the entire LPC55xx series. NXP prioritizes enabling this board with new support for Zephyr features. The lpcxpresso55s69 board configuration supports the following hardware features:

Interface

Controller

Driver/Component

NVIC

on-chip

nested vector interrupt controller

SYSTICK

on-chip

systick

IOCON

on-chip

pinmux

GPIO

on-chip

gpio

I2C

on-chip

i2c

SPI

on-chip

spi

USART

on-chip

serial port-polling; serial port-interrupt

WWDT

on-chip

windowed watchdog timer

TrustZone

on-chip

Trusted Firmware-M

ADC

on-chip

adc

CLOCK

on-chip

clock_control

MAILBOX

on-chip

ipm

HWINFO

on-chip

Unique device serial number

USB HS

on-chip

USB High Speed device

USB FS

on-chip

USB Full Speed device

COUNTER

on-chip

counter

I2S

on-chip

i2s

PWM

on-chip

pwm

RNG

on-chip

entropy; random

IAP

on-chip

flash programming

SDIF

on-chip

sdhc

DMA

on-chip

dma (on CPU0)

Targets available

The default configuration file boards/nxp/lpcxpresso55s69/lpcxpresso55s69_lpc55s69_cpu0_defconfig only enables the first core. CPU0 is the only target that can run standalone.

  • lpcxpresso55s69/lpc55s69/cpu0 secure (S) address space for CPU0

  • lpcxpresso55s69/lpc55s69/cpu0/ns non-secure (NS) address space for CPU0

  • lpcxpresso55s69/lpc55s69/cpu1 CPU1 target, no security extensions

NS target for CPU0 does not work correctly without a secure image to configure the system, then hand execution over to the NS environment. To enable a secure image, run any of the tfm_integration samples. When using the NS target CONFIG_BUILD_WITH_TFM is always enabled to ensure that a valid S image is included during the build process.

CPU1 does not work without CPU0 enabling it. To enable it, run one of the following samples in subsys\ipc:

  • ipm_mcux

  • openamp

Connections and IOs

The LPC55S69 SoC has IOCON registers, which can be used to configure the functionality of a pin.

Name

Function

Usage

PIO0_26

SPI

SPI MOSI

PIO0_27

USART

USART TX

PIO0_29

USART

USART RX

PIO0_30

USART

USART TX

PIO1_1

SPI

SPI SSEL

PIO1_2

SPI

SPI SCK

PIO1_3

SPI

SPI MISO

PIO1_4

GPIO

RED LED

PIO1_6

GPIO

BLUE_LED

PIO1_7

GPIO

GREEN LED

PIO1_20

I2C

I2C SCL

PIO1_21

I2C

I2C SDA

PIO1_24

USART

USART RX

PIO0_20

I2S

I2S DATAOUT

PIO0_19

I2S

I2S TX WS

PIO0_21

I2S

I2S TX SCK

PIO1_13

I2S

I2S DATAIN

PIO0_15

SCT0_OUT2

PWM

PIO0_24

SD0_D0

SDHC

PIO0_25

SD0_D1

SDHC

PIO0_31

SD0_D2

SDHC

PIO0_7

SD0_CLK

SDHC

PIO0_8

SD0_CMD

SDHC

PIO0_9

SD0_POW_EN

SDHC

PIO1_0

SD0_D3

SDHC

Memory mappings

There are multiple memory configurations, they all start from the MCUboot partitioning which looks like the table below

Name

Address[Size]

Comment

boot

0x00000000[32K]

Bootloader

slot0

0x00008000[160k]

Image that runs after boot

slot0_ns

0x00030000[96k]

Second image, core 1 or NS

slot1

0x00048000[160k]

Updates slot0 image

slot1_ns

0x00070000[96k]

Updates slot0_ns image

storage

0x00088000[50k]

File system, persistent storage

See below examples of how this partitioning is used

Trusted Execution

Memory

Address[Size]

Comment

MCUboot

0x00000000[32K]

Secure bootloader

TFM_S

0x00008000[160k]

Secure image

Zephyr_NS

0x00030000[96k]

Non-Secure image

storage

0x00088000[50k]

Persistent storage

RAM

Address[Size]

Comment

secure_ram

0x20000000[136k]

Secure memory

non_secure_ram

0x20022000[136k]

Non-Secure memory

Dual Core samples

Memory

Address[Size]

Comment

CPU0

0x00000000[630K]

CPU0, can access all flash

CPU1

0x00030000[96k]

CPU1, has no MPU

RAM

Address[Size]

Comment

sram0

0x20000000[64k]

CPU0 memory

sram3

0x20030000[64k]

CPU1 memory

sram4

0x20040000[16k]

Mailbox/shared memory

System Clock

The LPC55S69 SoC is configured to use PLL1 clocked from the external 16MHz crystal, running at 144MHz as a source for the system clock. When the flash controller is enabled, the core clock will be reduced to 96MHz. The application may reconfigure clocks after initialization, provided that the core clock is always set to 96MHz when flash programming operations are performed.

Serial Port

The LPC55S69 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

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

Configuring a Debug Probe

A debug probe is used for both flashing and debugging the board. This board is configured by default to use the LPC-Link2 CMSIS-DAP Onboard Debug Probe, however the pyOCD Debug Host Tools does not yet support this probe so you must reconfigure the board for one of the following debug probes instead.

LPC-LINK2 CMSIS DAP Onboard Debug Probe

  1. Install the LinkServer Debug Host Tools and make sure they are in your search path.

  2. To update the debug firmware, please follow the instructions on LPCXPRESSO55S69 Debug Firmware

Configuring a Console

Connect a USB cable from your PC to P6, 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. This example uses the J-Link Debug Host Tools as default.

# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b lpcxpresso55s69/lpc55s69/cpu0 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 v1.14.0 *****
Hello World! lpcxpresso55s69

Building and flashing secure/non-secure with Arm® TrustZone®

The TF-M integration samples can be run using the lpcxpresso55s69/lpc55s69/cpu0/ns target. To run we need to manually flash the resulting image (tfm_merged.hex) with a J-Link as follows (reset and erase are for recovering a locked core):

JLinkExe -device lpc55s69 -if swd -speed 2000 -autoconnect 1
J-Link>r
J-Link>erase
J-Link>loadfile build/zephyr/tfm_merged.hex

We need to reset the board manually after flashing the image to run this code.

Building a dual-core image

The dual-core samples are run using lpcxpresso55s69/lpc55s69/cpu0 target. Images built for lpcxpresso55s69/lpc55s69/cpu1 will be loaded from flash and executed on the second core when SECOND_CORE_MCUX is selected. For an example of building for both cores with sysbuild, see samples/subsys/ipc/openamp/

Debugging

Here is an example for the Hello World application. This example uses the J-Link Debug Host Tools as default.

# From the root of the zephyr repository
west build -b lpcxpresso55s69/lpc55s69/cpu0 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-v1.14.0 *****
Hello World! lpcxpresso55s69