Content originally posted in LPCWare by bavarian on Tue Sep 25 02:18:22 MST 2012
Hello Ralph,
for full speed operation the internal 12MHz oscillator could be maybe precise enough (if trimmed correctly), but for high speed you need for sure an external crystal (DFU bootloading doesn't use high speed).
However, as it is not possible to always guarantee the accuracy of the IRC after power up, the USB DFU boot mode was based on the existence of an external crystal.
Best regards,
NXP Technical Support