Amazon Web Services has released a preconfigured FreeRTOS example for Armv8-M and the NXP LPCXpresso55S69 board. With the addition of board- and device-specific examples, it is even easier to start and use the Arm® TrustZone® features combined with MPU (Memory Protection Unit) on the NXP LPC55xx MCU.

I really love tiny and bread board friendly boards, especially if they are very affordable and can be use with Eclipse based tools. So I was excited to see the NXP LPC845-BRK board to be available at Mouser, so I ended up ordering multiple boards right away. Why multiple? Because they only cost CHF 5.95 (around $6)!

NXP has released the newest versions of MCUXpresso SDK, IDE, and configuration tools. In addition to new product support, you will find these updates and enhanced features in the new releases:

MCUXpresso SDK v2.5.0

• Updated support for i.MX RT1020, i.MX RT1060, i.MX7ULP, i.MX8MQ, LPC54S0xx, LPC51U68
• Updated to latest GNU Arm Embedded Toolchain compiler (GCC Version 7-2018-q2-update)
• Expanded device and board support for Azure Cloud Connectivity, MCU Bootloader, NXP Touch Library, Multicore SDK
• Updated included middleware - mbedTLS, Amazon FreeRTOS(TM), emWin
• Updates to NXP developed middleware and drivers:
  • SDMMC, SDIO, SDSPI
  • EDMA, Flash, FlexCAN, FTM, SAI, GPIO

To configure trustzone feature for mcuxpresso IDE, you need to add cc-flags and ld-flags like this...

The following article explains how to use the MCUXpresso Software and Tools to enable runtime statistics for Amazon FreeRTOS V10

NXP has released new updates to the MCUXpresso suite of software and tools. These updates include support for new Kinetis, LPC and i.MX RT devices based on the Arm Cortex-M core, along with improved features and functionality.

@jennymplunkett from the Arm mbed team just posted a great tutorial using the LPCXpresso54608 touch screen on her blog... check it out at https://os.mbed.com/blog/entry/How-to-LPCXpresso54608-touch-panel/