NXP LPC1800 CPU Support Package

This package contains project templates and system files for the NXP LPC1800.

CrossWorks Version 3 Installation Instructions

To install this support package
  1. Click the Tools > Package Manager menu option to open the package manager window.
  2. Right click on the NXP LPC1800 CPU Support Package entry and select Install Selected Packages.
  3. Click Next to take you to the summary page.
  4. Click Next to install the package.
  5. Click Finish to close the package manager window.
  6. Click the Tools > Show Installed Packages.
  7. Click on the NXP LPC1800 CPU Support Package link to view the package and its contents.
To manually install this support package
  1. If you have not done so already, follow the CMSIS 3 Support Package and CrossWorks Tasking Library Package installation instructions.
  2. Download the file LPC1800.hzq using your web browser.
  3. Click the Tools > Manually Install Packages menu option.
  4. Select the file you have just downloaded to install the package.
  5. Click the Tools > Show Installed Packages.
  6. Click on the NXP LPC1800 CPU Support Package link to view the package and its contents.
To install this support package using other versions

Release Notes

1.4

1.3

1.2

1.1

1.0

Documentation

Creating LPC1800 Projects

To create a new LPC1800 project
To build, load and debug an application running in internal RAM
To build, load and debug an application running in internal Flash.
To make the application startup from reset

LPC1800 Project Specifics

CMSIS support

CMSIS header files are included as part of the new project setup.

CTL support

The file LPC1800_ctl.c implements the CTL system timer using the SysTick timer. The timer is configured to interrupt at a 10 millisecond rate and increment the CTL system timer by 10 to give a millisecond timer. The implementation uses the CMSIS SystemFrequency global variable to determine the CPU clock frequency.

The file LPC1800_ctl_board.c provides the example board specific functions SystemInit together with CTL button and led support functions.

Memory Simulator

An memory simulator is provided that simulates the memories of the various LPC1800 devices. The memory simulation parameter specifies the device name and the sizes of the SPIFI and the 4 static memories as macro values that can be defined with the memory simulation parameter macros project property.

Project Templates

The following project templates are supplied.

Section Placement

CrossStudio for ARM supports LPC1800 projects running applications in a number of different memory configurations. You can select the memory configuration you require by right clicking on the project node in the project explorer and selecting the Placement entry.

For LPC1800 projects the set of placements are:

Stack and Heap Sizes

The stack and heap sizes are set to be 128 bytes by default when a project is created. It is likely that you will need to change these values.

Target Reset Script

The reset script LPC1800_Target.js is used by the debugger to reset the target board.

Target Startup Code

The startup code LPC1800_Startup.s is common to all LPC1800 processors. There are a set of preprocessor defines that configure the startup code and are documented in the startup file itself. The startup code calls out to a weak symbol SystemInit with the stack pointer set to the top of RAM. The SystemInit function can be used to set the CPU clock or configure any external memories prior to the C initialisation code as such it cannot access initialised static data.

LPC1800 Sample Projects

The following project files are supplied that can be used to run the standard CrossWorks shared samples.

The board specific file LPC1800_ctl_board.c is included in the samples that implements SystemInit() and the ctl board support functions to flash a led and handle a button press.