NXP Semiconductors
LPCXpresso55S36UM
LPCXpresso55S36 Development Board User Manual
1 LPCXpresso55S36 overview
The LPCXpresso55S36 board is a powerful and flexible, evaluation and development
platform for NXP LPC5536 microcontroller (MCU). It belongs to the LPCXpresso family of
boards — boards for NXP LPC MCUs based on Arm Cortex-M cores.
The board is compatible with the Arduino UNO R3 and Mikroe click boards. It can be
used with a wide range of development tools, including NXP MCUXpresso IDE, Keil
µVision, and IAR Embedded Workbench. The board is lead-free and RoHS-compliant.
For debugging the LPC5536 MCU, the LPCXpresso55S36 board uses an onboard
debug probe, known as MCU-Link OB (OB stands for "onboard"), which is based on
another MCU, LPC55S69. For simplicity, MCU-Link OB is referred to as "MCU-Link
debug probe" or just "MCU-Link" and the LPC5536 MCU is referred to as "target MCU" in
this document.
This document provides details about the LPCXpresso55S36 board interfaces, power
supplies, clocks, push buttons, jumpers, and LEDs.
1.1 Acronyms and abbreviations
The table below lists and explains the acronyms and abbreviations used in this
document.
Term Description
4PDT Four pole double throw
ADC Analog-to-digital converter
BGA Ball grid array
CAN Controller area network
Codec Coder/decoder
DAC Digital-to-analog converter
DMIC Digital PDM microphone
DNP Do not populate
FD Flexible data-rate
GPIO General-purpose input/output
HID Human interface device
HS High-speed
I2C Inter-integrated circuit
I3C Improved inter-integrated circuit
I2S Inter-IC sound
IDE Integrated development environment
ISP In-System Programming
LED Light-emitting diode
MCU Microcontroller unit
NFC Near field communication
Op-amp Operational amplifier
PDM Pulse-density modulation
POR Power-on reset
PWM Pulse width modulation
RC Resistor-capacitor
SDK Software development kit
Table 1. Acronyms and abbreviations
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