MCUXpresso for Visual Studio Code | NXP Semiconductors

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MCUXpresso for Visual Studio Code (VS Code) provides an optimized embedded developer experience for code editing and development. MCUXpresso for VS Code supports NXP MCUs based on Arm^® Cortex^®-M cores including MCX, LPC, Kinetis and i.MX RT. MCUXpresso for VS Code allows developers the flexibility to work on projects from Zephyr, or MCUXpresso SDK in conjunction with Open-CMSIS-Packs.

The VS Code extension organizes relevant information including installed SDK repositories, available debug probes, user projects and links to help get started. A popular QuickStart panel provides access to the most popular actions. Intellisense improves upon standard auto-complete and auto-format features. The debug view provides access to breakpoints, variable/register views, call stack and thread awareness while using normal debug controls to step through the code. MCUXpresso for VS Code supports debug connections with probes from NXP, PEmicro and SEGGER^®.

For more information on NXP support for Visual Studio Code please review the resources below and visit our Community Forum.

User Guide

Software Details

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MCUXpresso for Visual Studio Code

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Features

Power with Ease-of-Use

Built on Microsoft Visual Studio Code platform, customize using marketplace extensions
Advanced editing: multi-cursor, auto-format, syntax highlighting, code snippets
Code smarter with Intellisense: completions for variables, methods and imported modules
Flexible use of MCUXpresso SDK using Github, with optional Open-CMSIS-Packs
Full support for Zephyr-based project development
Industry-standard GNU toolchain with a choice of libraries: optimized C library or the standard GNU Newlib / Nano library
Easy SDK example importing with MCUXpresso Configuration tools, including pins, clocks, peripheral and trusted execution tools
Source Control Management / Git integration
Project management view displays application information on target architecture, components, build configurations and software repository

Advanced Debug Capabilities

Supports PEmicro Multilink, SEGGER J-Link, MCU-Link or LPC-Link2 probes
Rich viewing capabilities for peripheral registers, global variables, textual/graphical live variables
Support for FreeRTOS, Azure RTOS ThreadX and Zephyr RTOS
Image Info view gives detailed overall memory usage, memory regions content and static call graphs including stack usage information
Device tree viewer to help with component structure of Zephyr projects
Integrated GUI Flash programming tool

Host Support

Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS / 22.04 LTS
MacOS 11.x Big Sur, 12.x Monterey, 13.x Ventura
Microsoft^® Windows 10 and 11

Supported Devices

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Processors and Microcontrollers
- Arm Microcontrollers
  - i.MX RT Crossover MCUs
  - Kinetis^® E Series: 5V, Robust Microcontrollers (MCUs) Based on Arm^® Cortex^®-M0+/M4 Core
    - KE02
    - KE02_40
    - KE04
    - KE06
    - KE1xF
    - KE1xZ
  - LPC800 Series: Low-Cost Arm^® Cortex^®-M0+-Based MCUs
    - LPC80X
    - LPC84X
    - LPC8N04
    - LPC86X
    - LPC82X
    - LPC81X_LPC83X
  - LPC54000 Series: Power-Efficient Microcontrollers (MCUs) Based on Arm^® Cortex^®-M4 Core
  - LPC5500 Series: Arm^® Cortex^®-M33 Based Microcontroller Series for Mass Market, Leveraging 40nm Embedded Flash Technology
    - LPC550x
    - LPC551X-S1X
    - LPC552x-S2x
    - LPC553x
    - LPC55S6x
  - MCX N Series Microcontrollers
    - MCX-N94X-N54X
  - Kinetis^® K6x Ethernet Microcontrollers (MCUs) Based on Arm^® Cortex^®-M4 Core
    - K60_100
    - K60_120
    - K63_120
    - K65_180
    - K64_120
    - K66_180