Friday, June 07, 2013: LPC1857-Xplorer++ is a cost effective evaluation platform for LPC1857 controller. The LPC1857 is a ARM Cortex-M3 based microcontrollers for embedded applications. The LPC1857include up to 1 MB of flash and 136 kB of on-chip SRAM, 16 kB of EEPROM memory, a quad SPI Flash Interface (SPIFI), a State Configurable Timer (SCT) subsystem, two High-speed USB controllers, Ethernet, LCD, an external memory controller, and multiple digital and analog peripherals. The LPC1857 operate at CPU frequencies of up to 180 MHz.
Following are the salient features of the LPC1857-Xplorer++
Controller: LPC1857, 256 pin BGA
PCB: 6-layer (102mm x 43mm, RoHS Compliant)
Two LEDs
One user switch and one reset switch
On board Micro SD card slot
32Mb Quad flash
On board 32MB SDRAM on 32bit bus
On board crystals for controller, RTC and audio codec
On board Ethernet PHY, 25 MHz Crystal and RJ45 connector with magnetics
On board audio codec and audio jacks
On board USB host
On board USB Device
On board 2X RS232 UART connected to the header
10-pin cortex debug header
Unused I/Os brought to header