MCUXpresso for Visual Studio Code

MCUXPRESSO-VSC

Click over video to play

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.

Diagram

MCUXpresso for Visual Studio Code

MCUXpresso for Visual Studio Code Block Diagram
Get diagram PDF

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

System Requirements

Downloads

Quick reference to our software types.
Filters

1 download

  • Development IDEs and Build Tools

    Visual Studio Code Marketplace

    EXTERNALRev 1.0Jul 5, 2023 08:54:00VISUAL-STUDIO-MARKET
    Download

Note: For better experience, software downloads are recommended on desktop.

Y true 0 SSPMCUXPRESSO-VSCen 2 Fact Sheet Fact Sheet t523 1 User Guide User Guide t792 1 en_US en_US en User Guide User Guide 1 1 kb 1.0 English MCUXpresso tools extension for Microsoft Visual Studio Code provides an easy and fast way to create, build and debug applications based on MCUXpresso SDK or Zephyr projects. 1688569210287743573603 SSP None None documents None 1688569210287743573603 https://github.com/nxp-mcuxpresso/vscode-for-mcux/wiki https://github.com/nxp-mcuxpresso/vscode-for-mcux/wiki USER-GUIDE-MCUXPRESSO-VISUAL documents N N N 2023-07-05 MCUXpresso for Visual Studio Code https://github.com/nxp-mcuxpresso/vscode-for-mcux/wiki https://github.com/nxp-mcuxpresso/vscode-for-mcux/wiki User Guide N 132339537837198660 Y 2023-07-05 EXTERNAL en Jul 5, 2023 132339537837198660 User Guide Y N https://github.com/nxp-mcuxpresso/vscode-for-mcux/wiki MCUXpresso for Visual Studio Code EXTERNAL Fact Sheet Fact Sheet 1 2 2 English MCUXpresso for Visual Studio Code Factsheet 1690475939903726144674 SSP 279.0 KB None None documents None 1690475939903726144674 /docs/en/fact-sheet/MCUXPRESSO-VSC-FS.pdf 278992 /docs/en/fact-sheet/MCUXPRESSO-VSC-FS.pdf MCUXPRESSO-VSC-FS documents N N 2023-07-27 MCUXpresso for Visual Studio Code /docs/en/fact-sheet/MCUXPRESSO-VSC-FS.pdf /docs/en/fact-sheet/MCUXPRESSO-VSC-FS.pdf Fact Sheet N 736675474163315314 2024-03-20 pdf N en Mar 20, 2024 736675474163315314 Fact Sheet Y N MCUXpresso for Visual Studio Code false 0 MCUXPRESSO-VSC downloads en true 1 Y SSP Y Y Fact Sheet 1 /docs/en/fact-sheet/MCUXPRESSO-VSC-FS.pdf 2023-07-27 1690475939903726144674 SSP 2 Mar 20, 2024 Fact Sheet MCUXpresso for Visual Studio Code Factsheet None /docs/en/fact-sheet/MCUXPRESSO-VSC-FS.pdf English documents 278992 None 736675474163315314 2024-03-20 N /docs/en/fact-sheet/MCUXPRESSO-VSC-FS.pdf MCUXpresso for Visual Studio Code /docs/en/fact-sheet/MCUXPRESSO-VSC-FS.pdf documents 736675474163315314 Fact Sheet N en None Y pdf 2 N N MCUXpresso for Visual Studio Code 279.0 KB MCUXPRESSO-VSC-FS N 1690475939903726144674 User Guide 1 https://github.com/nxp-mcuxpresso/vscode-for-mcux/wiki 2023-07-05 1688569210287743573603 SSP 1 Jul 5, 2023 User Guide MCUXpresso tools extension for Microsoft Visual Studio Code provides an easy and fast way to create, build and debug applications based on MCUXpresso SDK or Zephyr projects. EXTERNAL None https://github.com/nxp-mcuxpresso/vscode-for-mcux/wiki English documents kb None 132339537837198660 2023-07-05 N https://github.com/nxp-mcuxpresso/vscode-for-mcux/wiki MCUXpresso for Visual Studio Code https://github.com/nxp-mcuxpresso/vscode-for-mcux/wiki documents 132339537837198660 User Guide N en None N Y EXTERNAL 1.0 N MCUXpresso for Visual Studio Code Y USER-GUIDE-MCUXPRESSO-VISUAL N https://github.com/nxp-mcuxpresso/vscode-for-mcux/wiki 1688569210287743573603 true Y Softwares

Documentation

Quick reference to our documentation types.

Filters

2 documents

Compact List

Hardware

Quick reference to our board types.
Filters

1-5 of 13 hardware offerings

Show All

Related Software

Quick reference to our software types.

Filters

3 software files

Note: For better experience, software downloads are recommended on desktop.

Training

Filters

3 trainings

Support

What do you need help with?

  • Narrow your search
Search