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NXP Announces General Availability of the Arm Cortex-M33-based LPC551x/S1x MCU Family

Austin, Texas – April 28, 2020 – NXP Semiconductors today announced the availability of its LPC551x/S1x microcontroller (MCU) family (https://www.nxp.com/products/processors-and-microcontrollers/arm-microcontrollers/general-purpose-mcus/lpc5500-cortex-m33/lpc551x-s1x-baseline-arm-cortex-m33-based-microcontroller-family:LPC551X-S1X) – further extending its performance-efficient LPC5500 MCU series. (https://www.nxp.com/products/processors-and-microcontrollers/arm-microcontrollers/general-purpose-mcus/lpc5500-cortex-m33:LPC5500_SERIES) The LPC551x/S1x MCU family offers developers low power consumption, embedded security, pin-, software- and peripheral-compatibility to accelerate time-to-market. The LPC551x/S1x family leverages ultra-efficient 40-nm flash technology for cost and performance benefits.

Key features include:
•       Over 600 EEMBC® CoreMarks® and as low as 32uA/MHz
•       Up to 150 MHz Arm® Cortex®-M33 core
•       Up to 256 KB on-chip flash; up to 96 KB SRAM
•       CAN FD / CAN 2.0 with MCUXpresso-based software enablement
•       Dual-USB with on-chip PHY, supporting both HS and FS modes
•       SDIO and up to 9 FlexComm interfaces (configurable as either SPI/I2C/I2S,UART)
•       Advanced security enabled with MCUXpresso software and tools:
o  SRAM PUF based device root key with added application key storage options
o  Secure boot and anti-rollback protection
o  Arm TrustZone® technology for resource isolation
o  Hardware block cipher (PRINCE) for encryption/decryption of internal flash
o  Accelerators for symmetric and asymmetric cryptography
o  Authenticated debug capabilities
•       Available in HLQFP100, VFBGA98 and HTQFP64 packages
•       LPC551x/S1x is fully supported by NXP’s MCUXpresso suite of software and tools

To learn more about the LPC551x/S1x MCU family, please visit: http://www.nxp.com/LPC551x.

Product Availability and Support
The LPC551x/S1x MCU family is available now from NXP and its distribution partners with a suggested resale price starting at $0.97 (USD) for 10,000-unit quantities of LPC5512JBD64.

NXP is accompanying the silicon release with a LPC55S16-based development board (https://www.nxp.com/design/development-boards/lpcxpresso-boards/lpcxpresso55s16-development-board:LPC55S16-EVK) at a suggested resale price of $41.18 (USD). Third-party support is allowed from the broad Arm ecosystem.

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