LPC5500 Series: Arm^® Cortex^®-M33 Based Microcontroller Series for Mass Market, Leveraging 40nm Embedded Flash Technology

The LPC5500 MCU series leverages Arm's recent Cortex-M33 technology, combining significant product architecture enhancements and greater integration over previous generations, with dramatic power consumption improvements and advanced security feature including SRAM PUF-based root of trust and provisioning, real-time execution from encrypted images (internal flash), and asset protection with Arm^® TrustZone^®-M. In addition, the LPC5500 MCU series features seven scalable families, with a broad package and memory options, as well as a comprehensive MCUXpresso Software and Tools ecosystem and low-cost development boards. The LPC5500 series of MCUs is part of NXP's EdgeVerse™ edge computing platform.

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Series Key Features

Accessible Security

With SRAM PUF-based root of trust and provisioning, real-time execution from encrypted images (internal flash) and asset protection with Arm^® TrustZone^®-M.

Breakthrough in Performance Efficiency

With integrated power management IC (DC-DC) and dedicated coprocessors for signal processing and cryptographic acceleration.

Comprehensive Offering and Scalability

Comprised of several families within this series, all benefiting from 40 nm cost advantages, broad scalable package and memory options, robust enablement including MCUXpresso Software and Tools ecosystem and a low-cost development board.

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LPC5500 Series MCU Families

Family	Family Description	Security Subsystem	Communication Interfaces	Special Features	Packages
LPC550x/S0x	Baseline	Optional	CAN-FD/2.0, HS SPI, FlexComm (8)	-	HTQFP64 HVQFN48
LPC551x/S1x	Streamline with USB and CAN-FD	Optional	HS/FS USB, CAN-FD/2.0, HS SPI, FlexComm (8)	-	HLQFP100 VFBGA98 HTQFP64 VFBGA59
LPC552x/S2x	Mainstream with USB	Optional	HS/FS USB, HS SPI, FlexComm (8)	-	HLQFP100 VFBGA98 HTQFP64
LPC55S6x	High efficiency		HS/FS USB, HS SPI, FlexComm (8)	Dual-core DSP Accelerator	HLQFP100 VFBGA98 HTQFP64
LPC553x/S3x	Advanced Analog	Optional	FS USB, I³C, CAN-FD, FlexComm (8)	16-bit ADC OpAmp DAC Analog Comparator DSP Accelerator	HLQFP100 HTQFP64