NXP LPCXPRESSO54114 (M0 Core)¶

Overview¶

See NXP LPCXPRESSO54114 (M4 Core) for a general overview of the LPCXpresso54114 board. The Cortex-M0+ is a secondary core on the board’s SoC.

Programming and Debugging¶

The LPCXpresso54114 includes the LPC-Link2 serial and debug adapter built into the board to provide debugging, flash programming, and serial communication over USB. LPC-Link2 can be configured with Segger J-Link or CMSIS-DAP firmware variants to support corresponding debug tools. Currently only the Segger J-Link tools are supported for this board in Zephyr, therefore you should use the Segger J-Link firmware variant.

Before you start using Zephyr on the LPCXpresso54114, download and run LPCScrypt to update the LPC-Link2 firmware to the latest version, currently Firmware_JLink_LPC-Link2_20160923.bin. Serial communication problems, such as dropping characters, have been observed with older versions of the firmware.

The code for the secondary core is linked into the primary core binary file. Startup code copies the secondary core’s code into an appropriate location in RAM and starts its execution.

Debugging¶

You can debug an application in the usual way. Here is an example for the Sample mailbox application application.

# On Linux/macOS
cd $ZEPHYR_BASE/samples/subsys/ipc/ipm_mcux
mkdir build && cd build

# On Windows
cd %ZEPHYR_BASE%\samples\subsys\ipc\ipm_mcux
mkdir build & cd build


# Use cmake to configure a Ninja-based build system:
cmake -GNinja -DBOARD=lpcxpresso54114_m4 ..

# Now run ninja on the generated build system:
ninja debug

Open a serial terminal (minicom, putty, etc.) and connect the board with the following settings:

Speed: 115200
Data: 8 bits
Parity: None
Stop bits: 1

Reset the board and the following message will appear on the corresponding serial port:

***** Booting Zephyr OS v1.11.0-764-g4e3007a *****
Hello World from MASTER! arm
Received: 1
...
Received: 99