The contest also revolved around giving the contestants a voice towards the future development of LPCXpresso. Most of the contestants voted for the development to be supported on a wider range of computing platforms. NXP has already taken this into account and will be launching Linux support on 20th September at ESC Boston 2010, and will continue to develop and enhance the features of LPXpresso to support other platforms.
“With the Cortex-M0 LPC1100 Design Challenge, NXP and EE Times have extended the success of the LPCXpresso development platform,” said Geoff Lees, vice president and general manager, microcontroller product line, NXP Semiconductors. “LPCXpresso has shipped to over 10,000 customers in just six months proving that Eclipse- based tools are becoming more and more viable and popular for sub dollar microcontroller development.”