In March of 2017, NXP released the debut version of the MCUXpresso SDK along with an IDE and set of Config Tools under the same MCUXpresso name.  Since that time we have seen an amazing response from developers downloading and using this suite of software and tools.  The number of MCUXpresso SDK downloads recently surpassed 100,000 unique downloads.

As the NXP and former Freescale microcontrollers were unified under one company, we knew we needed to provide a consistent and efficient software development platform – one that would allow you  the flexibility to develop on a wide range on NXP microcontrollers without the need to relearn a new software architecture or re-invent basic enablement functionality.

In my previous articles I have used the command line on Linux to build and debug NXP MCUXpresso SDK applications. In this article I'm running code on NXP i.MX RT1064 in RAM or FLASH.

In “Tutorial: MCUXpresso SDK with Linux, Part 1: Installation and Build with Maked” I used cmake and make to build the SDK application. In this part I’m going to use the command line gdb to debug the application on the board.

I admit: my work laptop machine is running a Windows 10 OS by default. But this does not prevent me running Linux in a Virtual Machine (VM). Each host platform has its benefits, and I don’t feel biased to one or the other, but I have started using Ubuntu more and more, simply because I have worked more on Embedded Linux projects. While I have used mostly Windows with Eclipse for NXP LPC, Kinetis and i.MX platforms in the past, I started using Ubuntu too from last year with the NXP MCUXpresso SDK. I did not find much documentation about this on the web, so I thought it might be a good idea to write a tutorial about it. So here we go…

The SDK Generator Docs have been uploaded, here is the link SDK Generator Docs.

I have to say that the work is still on-going, 60% done. The outline is set and finished parts are all updated.

We have added CMSIS Device Family Pack generator as a part of SDK generator, it is integrated into release/2.5.0_rel9_rfp branch.

The presentation by @Holt Sun from Aug-30, 2018

The Kinetis Design Studio support has been phased out. The latest SDK version 2.4 doesn’t support this toolchain. The SDK builder always builds new SDK packages from the latest SDK version supporting the selected device/board/kit. That is the reason why KDS is not on the list of the available toolchains now.

Attached is a sample source code for OTP programming in NXP LPC54018 MCU.

Brief about the example:

The example programs 4 words of data each into OTP bank 1 and OTP bank 2. The example uses LPC54018 SDK drivers. The complete SDK for LPC54018 can be downloaded from Welcome | MCUXpresso SDK Builder .