We are pleased to announce that MCUXpresso Config Tools v13 are now available.

We are pleased to announce that MCUXpresso Config Tools v24.12 are now available. Downloads It’s a part of MCUXpresso IDE https://www.nxp.com/mcuxpresso/ide/download In order to use it with other toolchains, download the installer for all platforms, please login to our download site via:  https://www.nxp.com/mcuxpresso/config Please refer to MCUXpresso Config Tools documentation for installation and quick start guides. For online version, login into MCUXpresso site: MCUXpresso WEB Release Notes Full details on the release (features, known issues...) Version 24.12 • The creation (cloning) of the projects based on the SDK examples will no longer be supported in the future releases of the MCUXpresso Config Tools. Please start using the  MCUXpresso SDK CMake, Kconfig-based build, and configuration system to create MCUXpresso SDK standalone projects for the IAR Embedded Workbench, Keil uVision, GCC ARM Embedded, and/or CodeWarrior Development Studio toolchains. For detailed documentation, see the SDK Build And Configuration System documentation. • A new Radio option to create configuration for Zephyr in the New Configuration Wizard is added. • Clocks – Modular clocks initialization is supported. – Initialization mode is visible in the Clocks diagram and Details view. – A new Modular Initialization view for the configuration of initialization mode and core selection of the module is created. • TEE – The configuration and overview of areas with the same address and different address space is supported. – The Code generation can be toggled for global options groups. – The process for releasing ELE crypto before setting up TRDC is supported. – Support for MCUs with multiple SAUs, MPUs, NVIC triggers and interrupts (per core) is added. – A new tab to Security Access Configuration view for AXBS cross-bar switch configuration is added. – Flash Logical Window (FLW) configuration is supported. – TRDC Memory region checkers (MRC) restrictive overlap handling is supported. • Pins – The Miscellaneous tab for various Pins configuration options is added. – Filtering for routing dialogs is added. – Import of DTSI files is added.

The following article describes how the data files of the Pins Tool can be downloaded either for offline usage or processed further, for example in an automated build system or how to use it on a machine without network connection: https://mcuoneclipse.com/2016/07/29/nxp-pins-tool-understanding-data-for-offline-usage/   I hope you find this useful, Erich

We are pleased to announce that MCUXpresso Config Tools v13.1 are now available. Downloads It’s a part of MCUXpresso IDE https://www.nxp.com/mcuxpresso/ide/download In order to use it with other toolchains, download the installer for all platforms, please login to our download site via:  https://www.nxp.com/mcuxpresso/config Please refer to MCUXpresso Config Tools documentation for installation and quick start guides. For online version, login into MCUXpresso site: MCUXpresso WEB Release Notes Config Tools v13.1 Pins tool Fix incomplete routing of deinit functions Update of data for Config Tools v13 and v13.1 General Update of MC56F80xxx support to the latest processor data Fix of missing MIMXRT1170-EVKB board configuration Pins tool Bug fix of incorrect labels of PMOD expansion header in Pins tool Peripherals tool Register init. components Bug fix of PLU Register init. component on LPC550x/S0x processors Bug fix of Peripherals tool FlexIO RIC SDK init. components Support of fcb Peripherals tool component for RT104x and RT116x processors Memory validation tool Update of DDR tool data for i.MX8M and i.MX93 processors Update of Memory validation tool data for Layerscape and i.MX RT processors Community MCUXpresso Config Tools  

This community and forum is for the growing set of Kinetis Expert System Conguration Tools. The tools are acessible online on Welcome to Kinetis Expert | Kinetis Expert and include right now the 'Build an SDK' and 'Power Estimation' tools: So if you have any questions or need any further advice and information about the Kinetis Expert System Configuration Tools, this is the community for it!

If you are using LPCSxx microcontrollers and the TEE tool for configuration of resources isolation, you may encounter a tool warning or the chip’s behaviour differs from the expectations. This article may help you in configuring the Private Peripheral Bus (PPB) area properly. The 0xE000_0000 – 0xFFFF_FFFF area has specific behaviour in the TrustZone. The area’s security can be configured in the SAU, however, multiple regions are either exempt from security checking, or are fixed as Secure. Especially: 0xE000_0000 - 0xE000_2FFF – exempt from security violation checks 0xE000_E000 - 0xE000_EFFF – exempt from security violation checks 0xE002_E000 - 0xE002_EFFF – exempt from security violation checks 0xE004_0000 - 0xE004_1FFF – exempt from security violation checks 0xE00F_F000 - 0xE00F_FFFF – exempt from security violation checks 0xE000_0000 - 0xEFFF_FFFF – exempt from security violation checks for instruction fetch 0xF000_0000 – 0xFFFF_FFFF – fixed as Secure Therefore if you configure any address range mentioned above as a Non-Secure region in the SAU, the TEE tool generates a warning.

The following article has quick steps and videos how to get started with Kinetis Expert SDK and Design Studio:   https://community.freescale.com/docs/DOC-329662   Enjoy!

We are pleased to announce that MCUXpresso Config Tools v12.1 are now available. Downloads It’s a part of MCUXpresso IDE https://www.nxp.com/mcuxpresso/ide/download In order to use it with other toolchains, download the installer for all platforms, please login to our download site via:  https://www.nxp.com/mcuxpresso/config Please refer to MCUXpresso Config Tools documentation for installation and quick start guides. For online version, login into MCUXpresso site: MCUXpresso WEB Revision History 12.1 PLU tool Integrated into the Mcuxpresso Config tools Reworked to cooperate with Peripherals tool PLU register init component Pins tool Deinit function now sets also the routing and direction to it's default state. It also tries to route the original peripheral signal to it's default pin Support of RT1041xxxB/RT1042xxxxB   Community MCUXpresso Config Tools id:mcuxpresso-config

We are pleased to announce that MCUXpresso Config Tools v15.0 are now available. Downloads It’s a part of MCUXpresso IDE https://www.nxp.com/mcuxpresso/ide/download In order to use it with other toolchains, download the installer for all platforms, please login to our download site via:  https://www.nxp.com/mcuxpresso/config Please refer to MCUXpresso Config Tools documentation for installation and quick start guides. For online version, login into MCUXpresso site: MCUXpresso WEB Release Notes Full details on the release (features, known issues...) Config Tools v15.0 • The product is based on Eclipse 2023-06. • Support for SDK 2.15 in the Project cloner and Detect toolchain project is added. TEE – Setting a security level for a special three-state model is improved. – Validation for the uniqueness of DID, match and mask input for XRDC2 is added. – Default global access templates are now created if needed by checkers and missing within MEX. PLU – An error is now reported when a Verilog code contains a signal that was not declared. – A capability to select one input for some logic gates for which it does not make sense is removed. – A button to erase the whole diagram is added. – Support to keep intermediate files generated by an external program for debugging purposes is added. – The behavior of selecting the LUT type Custom to keep the previous logic table and added buttons to set it to zeros or ones is changed. – The status bar to the schematic view is added. Peripherals – A bug with the documentation view in a version integrated to the MCUXpresso IDE is fixed. – The mechanism that handles opening views that were opened in the previous session to work with identification of the configuration instead of its location on disk is updated. – A new optional experimental loading mechanism for components is prepared. This mechanism will be used by default in the next release. Pins – Validation to ensure that elements can be configured by the selected core is added.– Rows are sorted in the Peripheral Signals routing dialog. – The connected pins column in External User Signals always shows the pin's full name. – The missing scroll bar in the External User Signals view is fixed.   Clocks – Support for multicore code generation is added. – Global configuration elements now support tree structure and can be categorized. – Fractional PLL now supports a custom range and negative numerator. – Scrolling in the clock diagram by pressing the mouse wheel (drag and drop) is supported.   DCD – An issue with the code generation that stopped working after drag and drop of a group is fixed.   MCUXpresso IDE integration – Support for multiple MEX files within one project (toolbar Project combo + autoload MEX on IDE startup) is improved.   Community MCUXpresso Config Tools  

This tip will show you how to use MCUXpresso Config Tools V4.1 generate codes for KV5x with 50MHz external reference clock. The fec_extal in datasheet shows that the maximum frequency of Input clock frequency (external clock mode) is 48MHz. It will lead code generation failed when you configure 50MHz as the external reference clock in latest MCUXpresso Config Tools V4.1. (Code generation in case of warnings shouldn't be blocked. It will be fixed for MCUXpresso Config Tools V5.) Some customer had met this issue when using TWR-KV58F220M board, this board connect a 50MHz_OSC to EXTAL0. My colleague have prepared a hot fix for this issue (for all MKV5x MCUs). After install the attached hot_fix_MCUXpresso_Config_Tools_V4_1_data_MKV58_MCUCM-3936, customer is able to overcome it.(Notice: The ProgramData folder was hidden by default.)

We are pleased to announce that MCUXpresso Config Tools v25.03 are now available. Downloads It’s a part of MCUXpresso IDE (Version 25.03 can be updated from IDE) https://www.nxp.com/mcuxpresso/ide/download In order to use it with other toolchains, download the installer for all platforms, please login to our download site via:  https://www.nxp.com/mcuxpresso/config Please refer to MCUXpresso Config Tools documentation for installation and quick start guides. For online version, login into MCUXpresso site: MCUXpresso WEB Release Notes Full details on the release (features, known issues...) Version 25.03 • Output Paths Overrides for toolchain project is fixed. • "Filter source files" search bar with case-sensitive checkbox is removed. • TEE – Sort for Peripheral Configurations table is added.

The following article describes how to configure code generation for the clock gates and how to perform a full initialization with the Pins Tool: https://mcuoneclipse.com/2016/07/19/nxp-pins-tool-clock-gates-and-controlling-the-bits/  

We are pleased to announce that MCUXpresso Config Tools v16.0 are now available. Downloads It’s a part of MCUXpresso IDE https://www.nxp.com/mcuxpresso/ide/download In order to use it with other toolchains, download the installer for all platforms, please login to our download site via:  https://www.nxp.com/mcuxpresso/config Please refer to MCUXpresso Config Tools documentation for installation and quick start guides. For online version, login into MCUXpresso site: MCUXpresso WEB Release Notes Full details on the release (features, known issues...) The product is based on Eclipse 2023-12 - A new command-line argument ( -UpdateCode) has been added. It performs the same action as the Update Code button in the user interface. It must be used with -HeadlessTool. - The command-line argument -CreateFromProject is improved, it no longer requires the -HeadlessTool argument and opens the toolchain project in the UI. - The command-line arguments -CreateFromProject and -ImportProject are improved. They no longer allow setting the toolchain project file path (for example, *.cbuild-gen-idx.yml, *.uvprojx, *.ewp, CMakeLists.txt) directly. TEE – The query for pins labels and routed signals is updated to work on the new NPI. – Global tool options now support enum, boolean, and string with the ability to define the regex validator. – Access templates are now greyed out when the global ones are used. – The legacy source names option is disabled when ROM output is selected. – MPU tabs are now sorted by top domain index and then alphabetically. – The correct representation of TRDC domains is implemented by removing mix domains. – Peripheral areas are now correctly stored within the correct tab. – The side-channel attack warning is added to the RAM security settings. – The Trigger tab for configuration of the ITRC register RW fields is added. PLU – Minor bug fixes Peripherals – Support for unique identification of configuration components is finished. – Support for settings with indentation, but no label content is added. Pins – Simultaneous routing detection (routing of one signal may result in multiple signals being routed based on the same register settings) is added. In that case, such signals are offered to be added into the configuration. – Support of internal pins that are not available on the package is added. Clocks – Creation of the clock model has been accelerated. Open-CMSIS generator – The open-CMSIS solution is supported as a new toolchain. – The generation of the .cgen.yml file is supported. – The generation of new source files inside the project output folder is supported. – The location of the MEX file inside the project output folder is supported.

We are pleased to announce that MCUXpresso Config Tools v25.09 are now available. Downloads It’s a part of MCUXpresso IDE https://www.nxp.com/mcuxpresso/ide/download In order to use it with other toolchains, download the installer for all platforms, please login to our download site via:  https://www.nxp.com/mcuxpresso/config Please refer to MCUXpresso Config Tools documentation for installation and quick start guides. For online version, login into MCUXpresso site: MCUXpresso WEB Release Notes Full details on the release (features, known issues...) General • SDK West is supported as a new toolchain project starting with SDK version 25.09. • The Release Notes format is updated from plain text to markdown. • Fixed missing information about the toolchain project in the Dashboard dialog shown for the first time from VSCode. • The newly generated configuration includes the default NXP copyright notice and is licensed under the BSD-3-Clause license. Clocks – Supported input frequency setting

We are pleased to announce that MCUXpresso Config Tools v25.06 are now available. Downloads It’s a part of MCUXpresso IDE https://www.nxp.com/mcuxpresso/ide/download In order to use it with other toolchains, download the installer for all platforms, please login to our download site via:  https://www.nxp.com/mcuxpresso/config Please refer to MCUXpresso Config Tools documentation for installation and quick start guides. For online version, login into MCUXpresso site: MCUXpresso WEB Release Notes Full details on the release (features, known issues...) • DCD – The pattern for identifying the tool source files is improved. • Clocks – Support for read-only element settings is added. – Filtering all settings of Initialization modules in the Details view is supported. • Peripherals – The wizard to export the Registers view data in the CSV format is added. – Performance of the tool is improved. • An ability to export/import Expansion Boards, Expansion Headers, and System Manager components is added.

We are pleased to announce that MCUXpresso Config Tools v16.1 are now available. Downloads It’s a part of MCUXpresso IDE https://www.nxp.com/mcuxpresso/ide/download In order to use it with other toolchains, download the installer for all platforms, please login to our download site via:  https://www.nxp.com/mcuxpresso/config Please refer to MCUXpresso Config Tools documentation for installation and quick start guides. For online version, login into MCUXpresso site: MCUXpresso WEB Release Notes Full details on the release (features, known issues...) • Fixed missing information about the toolchain project in the Overview dialog shown for the first time. – The Update code dialog opened from the Overview dialog shows the *.cgen.yml file. • Incorrect detection of the selected toolchain file after the command-line execution is fixed. The problem occurs for the folders with multiple different toolchain project files. • Creating a configuration from the toolchain project that does not contain the tool configuration in the MEX file or in the tools source file is allowed. • Open-CMSIS generator support – The usage of the path information from *.cbuild-gen-idx.yml for generation of the *.cgen.yml file is supported. • Clocks – Disabling enabled clock outputs that have settings with shared bit-fields after reopening the configuration is fixed. – Clock slices with multiple outputs are supported. • TEE – An incorrect number of the MPU region attributes shown for the configuration of RT1180 is fixed. – An incorrect domain visibility and tab names when DAC is disabled on RT1180 is fixed.

How to set up Zephyr pins through MCUXpresso Config tools - create DTSI file for your custom board. Create a new project for Zephyr pins tool Interface introduction - where to find what? Create DTSI for custom boards MCUXpresso Config tools download page 

We are pleased to announce that MCUXpresso Config Tools v15.1 are now available. Downloads It’s a part of MCUXpresso IDE https://www.nxp.com/mcuxpresso/ide/download In order to use it with other toolchains, download the installer for all platforms, please login to our download site via:  https://www.nxp.com/mcuxpresso/config Please refer to MCUXpresso Config Tools documentation for installation and quick start guides. For online version, login into MCUXpresso site: MCUXpresso WEB Release Notes Full details on the release (features, known issues...) Config Tools v15.1 • On MacOS aarch64, the missing Overview is fixed. • TEE – Pin tables now only contain items for specific configuration (mask/security/interrupts).   Community MCUXpresso Config Tools      

We are pleased to announce that MCUXpresso Config Tools 26.03 are now available. Downloads It’s a part of MCUXpresso IDE https://www.nxp.com/mcuxpresso/ide/download In order to use it with other toolchains, download the installer for all platforms, please login to our download site via:  https://www.nxp.com/mcuxpresso/config Please refer to MCUXpresso Config Tools documentation for installation and quick start guides. For online version, login into MCUXpresso site: MCUXpresso WEB Release Notes Full details on the release (features, known issues...) Version 26.03 Clocks Hierarchy for local configuration element settings is supported. TEE Multicore Interrupt Handling for Single Security Domain is supported. Option to filter only user-defined memory regions is added. Interrupts are now separated into groups based on the core.