ARM TechCon³ 2009 post-show

Thank you for visiting NXP at the ARM TechCon³ in Santa Clara at the Santa Clara Convention Center, October 21-23, 2009. We hope you attended our informative sessions around the newest members of our Cortex-M3 and Cortex-M0 based LPC1000 family. We were sponsoring various sessions that gave attendees detailed insight and understanding of the unique integration of the Cortex-M3/M0 cores into the LPC families.

We also showcased live demonstrations of our Cortex-M3 and Cortex-M0 based LPC1000 family.

NXP was holding free sponsored sessions on October 21st and 22nd.

The sessions covered the following topics:

• Wednesday, October 21st, 11:00am - 12:00pm
• Thursday, October 22nd, 9:00am - 9:45am

This presentation provides a review of the world's first microcontrollers based on the M0 core from ARM. The talk will introduce the M0 core, the chip architecture, special features, and performance. Topics such as high code density and fast deterministic interrupt performance are discussed, and benchmarks for code/performance versus other architectures are presented.

• Ken Dwyer, Applications Engineering Manager
• Stevan Dobrasevic, International Product Marketing Manager

The Cortex M0 LPC111x Overview and Benchmarks © October 2009; English; Ordering code: Not Orderable

• Wednesday, October 21st, 1:00pm - 2:00pm
• Thursday, October 22nd, 10:00am - 10:45am

The 32-bit Cortex-M0 provides an optimal solution for your 8/16-bit projects. This talk describes how the instruction set and hardware features of the Cortex-M0 minimize the instructions required for your applications. A comparison of the LPC1100 and 8/16-bit devices will be presented illustrating the LPC1100's smaller code requirements.

• Rob Cosaro, Systems Applications and Architecture Manager
• Dominic Pajak, ARM

Get Better Code Density than 8/16 bit MCU's NXP LPC1100 Cortex M0 © October 2009; English; Ordering code: Not Orderable

• Wednesday, October 21st, 2:15pm - 3:15pm

In this session, you will get a clear overview about the vast support ecosystem that exists for NXP LPC microcontrollers. Get an overview on the more than 75 third-party tool vendors who offer software and hardware development tools for NXP. Become familiar with the LPCZone, our new online training and community portal and get a preview of LPCXpresso, NXP's new, low-cost tool chain, and see a quick demo of mbed, the recently-announced solution for rapid prototyping.

• Axel Wolf, Technical Marketing Manager

An Insider's Guide to the Ecosystem for NXP's ARM-Based Microcontrollers © October 2009; English; Ordering code: Not Orderable

• Wednesday, October 21st, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
• Thursday, October 22nd, 3:30pm - 4:30pm

Embedded system developers can save time, effort, and code space by utilizing the on-chip USB HID and Mass Storage drivers. This presentation demonstrates a simplified approach to USB application development using an LPC134x microcontroller. Development effort is better spent on application code rather than learning the register interface and spending time implementing/debugging the USB software.

• David Donley, Sr. Applications Engineer
• Pankaj Shrivastava, Architectural Design Engineer

Using USB on the LPC1300 As Simple as Using a UART © October 2009; English; Ordering code: Not Orderable

• Thursday, October 22nd, 11:00am - 12:00pm

Developed by EEMBC, CoreMark is a simple, yet sophisticated, benchmark that is designed specifically to test a variety of CPUs, from 8-bit microcontrollers to 32-bit embedded processors. Running CoreMark produces a single-number score allowing users to make quick comparisons between processors. CoreMark results can be submitted by customers and developers and will quickly create a large body of scores. Then, we can finally bury the decades-old Dhrystone for good. In addition, we'll show how to use EEMBC's Energy Bench test methods to cut through the specmanship in power consumption specifications.

• Rob Cosaro, Systems Applications and Architecture Manager
• Sergio Scaglia, Sr. Applications Engineer

• Thursday, October 22nd, 1:00pm - 2:00pm

In this session you will learn about a new, exciting way to do embedded programming using mbed, a web-based, community-oriented embedded development tool concept for Cortex-M3 microcontrollers. mbed allows you to create, compile, and download embedded software by just using your browser. The session starts with an introduction to the mbed concept, followed by a live demonstration on how to use this new, revolutionary development tool and its ecosystem. mbed is perfect for simple, rapid prototyping and is a "must-see."

• Axel Wolf, Technical Marketing Manager

'mbed'—Rapid Prototyping for NXP LPC Microcontrollers in Minutes © October 2009; English; Ordering code: Not Orderable

• Thursday, October 22nd, 2:15pm - 3:15pm

LPCXpresso is a complete, embedded design alternative to existing IDE solutions. In this session, you will understand how to use the new LPCXpresso IDE, based on Eclipse, to develop embedded software for Cortex-M3 and Cortex-M0. LPCXpresso provides you with a complete solution from exploration to evaluation and development.

• John Rayfield, Code Red Technologies

Introduction to LPCXpresso NXP Semiconductors and Code Red Technologies © October 2009; English; Ordering code: Not Orderable

• Official ARM TechCon³ Website
• NXP's LPC1000 Product Family