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From the mbed microcontroller Handbook.  

mbed Microcontrollers

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The mbed Microcontrollers are a series of microcontrollers development boards designed for fast, flexible and low-risk and professional rapid prototyping.

They are packaged as a small 40-pin 0.1" DIP form-factor convenient for prototyping with solderless breadboard, stripboard, and through-hole PCBs. They include a built-in USB programming interface that is as simple as using a USB Flash Drive. Plug it in, drop on an ARM program binary, and its up and running!

mbed Microcontrollers
mbed NXP LPC11U24 (left) and mbed NXP LPC1768 (right)

The USB drag ‘n’ drop programming interface works with Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, meaning you can re-flash the microcontroller without needing drivers or a programming application. The program binary can be easily generated using the mbed Online Compiler, or alternatively using any other standard toolchain like Keil uVision, Code Red, or GCC.

There is also support for a virtual serial port using the same USB interface, enabling communication with a PC terminal, Labview, Matlab, and any other programming language that can communicate with a COM port.

mbed Microcontroller Variants

The same rapid prototyping form-factor and functionality is available for a number of different microcontroller targets, suitable for prototyping different applications:

mbed NXP LPC11U24mbed NXP LPC1768
mbed NXP LPC11U24mbed NXP LPC1768
Intended applicationsUSB Devices
Battery powered
8/16-bit applications		Ethernet
USB Host
Powerful applications
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Specifications of core
CoreARM Cortex-M0ARM Cortex-M3
Frequency48MHz96MHz
FLASH32KB512KB
RAM8KB32KB
Power1-16mA (Vb)60-120mA (Vin)
Peripherals
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See also

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Last modified 20 Jan 2012, by   user Simon Ford   tag No tags | 13 comments  

13 comments on mbed Microcontrollers:

user Sunny Singh
30 Aug 2011

Hi, What EMC testing has been conducted on the mBED?

user Jez Cawley
03 Nov 2011

Hi guys,

There's a typo in the above regarding the speed of the new M0 version - it still refers it to being 96MHz...

mbed NXP LPC11U24

The mbed NXP LPC11U24 is ideal for prototyping low-cost USB devices, battery powered applications and products that could take advantage of ARM Cortex-M0 based 32-bit MCUs.

This mbed Microcontroller board is based on the NXP LPC11U24 with a 32-bit ARM Cortex-M0 core running at 96MHz, 32KB FLASH, 8KB RAM and peripherals including USB Device, I2C, UART, SPI, ADC and other I/O interfaces.

Looking forward to playing with one of these very soon. Cheers, Jez

user Chris Styles
08 Dec 2011

Hi Sunny,

Just in case you didn't see :

http://mbed.org/blog/entry/EMC-Testing-mbed/

Best regards, Chris

user ceri clatworthy
13 Dec 2011

is there an error above, the M0 now has 6 PWM's

Cheers

Ceri

user Emilio Monti
13 Dec 2011

user ceri clatworthy wrote:

is there an error above, the M0 now has 6 PWM's

It is correct, the M0 now has 8 PWMs:

  • CT16B0/MR0 on p5
  • CT16B0/MR1 on p6
  • CT16B0/MR2 on p34
  • CT16B1/MR0 on p36
  • CT16B1/MR1 on p20 and p14
  • CT32B0/MR0 on p25
  • CT32B0/MR1 on p26 and USBTX
  • CT32B0/MR2 on p10

See: http://mbed.org/handbook/PwmOut

user Robert Onkenhout
13 Mar 2012

I've only had my mbed for a few days, however compared with the struggles from other .....devices it's a joy to use. Things work, and quickly. Course, now I just jinxed myself.

user Denis Rudashevskiy
26 Mar 2012

and which ports are the lower 4 LEDs?

user Denis Rudashevskiy
26 Mar 2012

user Denis Rudashevskiy wrote:

and which ports are the lower 4 LEDs?

sorry, figured out)

user Christian Lerche
27 Mar 2012

user Denis Rudashevskiy wrote:

and which ports are the lower 4 LEDs?

http://mbed.org/users/Lerche/notebook/lpc11u24-pin-functions/

user Ernesto Palacios
14 Apr 2012

LPC-1768 CAN (2)?

I know the LCP micro has two CAN ports, but on mbed there is only one implementation,

I thought this was supposed to list the mbed ready capabilities, or maybe there is a way of using the TWO CAN interfaces??

user Andrew Worsley
15 Apr 2012

Hi Ernesto,

Both CAN ports are available on the LPC-1768 mbed - per the handbook http://mbed.org/handbook/CAN Pins 9/10 are one port, pins 30/29 are the other port. Unfortunately the "official" pinout diagram (per the "credit card" picture you get with the mbed) only shows one port on p30/p29, and has not been updated to show the second port, so this question keeps coming up (as you can see in the comments on the handbook page).

user Victor Corchez
1 month ago

Hello! Could somebody tell me which are the mbed corresponding pins for p1.19, p1.22, p1.25, p1.26, p1.28, p1.29 (which are the output pins for those 3 motor control PWM channels). If there aren't, could somebody give me a code example on how could these lpc1768 pins could be routed for the mbed dip pins. Thanks!

user Wim Huiskamp
1 month ago

user Victor Corchez wrote:

Could somebody tell me which are the mbed corresponding pins for p1.19, p1.22, p1.25, p1.26, p1.28, p1.29

These pins are not available on the lpc1768 mbed. Here is an overview of all lpc1768 pins on mbed: http://mbed.org/users/Lerche/notebook/lpc1768-pin-functions/

Here is an overview of all lpc11U24 pins on mbed:

http://mbed.org/users/Lerche/notebook/lpc11u24-pin-functions/#c3047

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