topic Development roadmap in MCUXpresso SDK

Development roadmap

superaga — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 10:33:30 GMT

Hi NXP,

I'm started to develop on the LPC112x and I realized that the MCUXpresso SDK is not available for this chip.

Browsing in the supported devices I saw that there is quite fragmentation across all the families.

Once you are familiar to use that SDK/libraries for your device it is quite frustrating to move to the other SDK/libraries when you change the device (even within the same family! - i.e. LPC).

Is there the idea to converge to the same SDK (at least for the same family) in the future?

I think that would be beneficial to have just one SDK for "all" the devices. It would be more solid and the community could contribute to add/fix functionalities.

I know that the current situation across many (maybe all) silicon manufacturer is quite the same (due also to acquisitions) and I'm sure is something that would require a not negligible effort, but would really add a valuable value to your brand and a great support all the users.

Am I wrong on this topic or someone else share the same thought?

Is there a reason why some chips are not supported by the same family SDK? Apparently they share the same peripheral (as hardware implementation).

Kind regards.

Re: Development roadmap

ZhangJennie — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 06:11:29 GMT

LPC1112 was launched 10 years ago.

It is supported by LPCOpen but not MCUXpresso SDK:

https://www.nxp.com/design/microcontrollers-developer-resources/lpcopen-libraries-and-examples/lpcopen-software-development-platform-lpc11xx:LPCOPEN-SOFTWARE-FOR-LPC11XX

There is no plan to have MCUXpresso SDK supporting it in near future.

Thanks,

Jun Zhang

Re: Development roadmap

superaga — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 07:49:19 GMT

Hi @ZhangJennie ,

My mistake, I was meaning the LPC1125., Sorry.

Can you reply again regarding these cases?

Many thanks!

Re: Development roadmap

ZhangJennie — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 02:42:21 GMT

LPC1125 was launched 7 years ago.

But the situation is the same for all LPC1xxx family, which is supported by LPCOpen only, MCUXPresso SDK doesn't support it.

Thanks,

Jun Zhang

Re: Development roadmap

superaga — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 09:46:17 GMT

Hi @ZhangJennie

I understood, many thanks for the clarification.

I assume then that all the new devices will be supported by the MCUXpresso SDK.

Kind regards