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LPCXpresso55S36UM
LPCXpresso55S36 Development Board User Manual
1 LPCXpresso55S36 overview
The LPCXpresso55S36 board is a powerful and flexible, evaluation and development
platform for NXP LPC5536 microcontroller (MCU). It belongs to the LPCXpresso family of
boards — boards for NXP LPC MCUs based on Arm Cortex-M cores.
The board is compatible with the Arduino UNO R3 and Mikroe click boards. It can be
used with a wide range of development tools, including NXP MCUXpresso IDE, Keil
µVision, and IAR Embedded Workbench. The board is lead-free and RoHS-compliant.
For debugging the LPC5536 MCU, the LPCXpresso55S36 board uses an onboard
debug probe, known as MCU-Link OB (OB stands for "onboard"), which is based on
another MCU, LPC55S69. For simplicity, MCU-Link OB is referred to as "MCU-Link
debug probe" or just "MCU-Link" and the LPC5536 MCU is referred to as "target MCU" in
this document.
This document provides details about the LPCXpresso55S36 board interfaces, power
supplies, clocks, push buttons, jumpers, and LEDs.
1.1 Acronyms and abbreviations
The table below lists and explains the acronyms and abbreviations used in this
document.
Term
Description
4PDT
Four pole double throw
ADC
Analog-to-digital converter
BGA
Ball grid array
CAN
Controller area network
Codec
Coder/decoder
DAC
Digital-to-analog converter
DMIC
Digital PDM microphone
DNP
Do not populate
FD
Flexible data-rate
GPIO
General-purpose input/output
HID
Human interface device
HS
High-speed
I2C
Inter-integrated circuit
I3C
Improved inter-integrated circuit
I2S
Inter-IC sound
IDE
Integrated development environment
ISP
In-System Programming
LED
Light-emitting diode
MCU
Microcontroller unit
NFC
Near field communication
Op-amp
Operational amplifier
PDM
Pulse-density modulation
POR
Power-on reset
PWM
Pulse width modulation
RC
Resistor-capacitor
SDK
Software development kit
Table 1. Acronyms and abbreviations
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