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Red Suite 4
Red Suite 4 (NXP Edition)
LPCXpresso IDE
Red Probe+
LPC1768 Development Kit

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For developing ARM®-based microcontroller applications

Red Suite 4 (Full edition)

Available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS-X hosts

Red Suite is a fully featured software development environment for ARM- based Microcontrollers, and includes all the tools necessary to develop high quality embedded software applications in a timely and cost effective fashion.
The Red Suite IDE is based on the highly popular Eclipse platform and features many ease-of-use and Microcontroller specific enhancements. Red Suite includes the industry standard GNU tools enabling professional quality tools at low cost.
Red Suite 4 is a significant upgrade over previous releases and includes support for Cortex-M4 based processors, new compilers and libraries which further reduces target code size and is now also available on Windows, Linux and Mac OS-X hosts.

Red Suite 4 NXP Edition

Red Suite 4 NXP Edition - Low cost upgrades for users of LPCXpresso IDE

Red Suite 4 NXP Edition is the low-cost upgrade for the popular LPCXpresso IDE, featuring higher download limits and additional functionality over the free product. Based on an enhanced version of the highly integrated software development environment provided with the LPCXpresso IDE, it features support for all NXP ARM-based LPC microcontrollers and is available with either 256k or 512k download limits. This new release is a significant upgrade over previous releases and includes support for Cortex-M4 based processors and new compilers and libraries which further reduces target code size.

LPCXpresso

LPCXpresso - very low cost development system for NXP LPC microcontrollers

LPCXpresso's IDE (powered by Code Red) is a highly-integrated software development environment for NXP's LPC microcontrollers, which includes all the tools necessary to develop high-quality software solutions in a timely and cost effective fashion. LPCXpresso is based on a simplified Eclipse with many LPC-specific enhancements. It also features the current version of the industry standard GNU tool chain with a proprietary optimized C library. The LPCXpresso IDE can build an executable of any size with full code optimization, and it supports a download limit of 128KB after registration.

LPC1768 Development Kit

RDB1768v2 with Drag2FLASH™

The LPC1768 Development Kit contains all of the hardware and software required for evaluating and developing with NXP's LPC1700 series microcontrollers. The kit consists of the RDB1768V2 Development board, a fully featured evaluation version of Red Suite, and a suite of example programs. The integrated on-board debug circuit, means that no additional debug probe is needed when used with Red Suite.

With the NEW Drag2FLASH feature, the board appears to the host as a Flash drive. Drag a built binary to the drive, and press a button to run!

Red Probe+™: JTAG/SWD Debug Probe+ for ARM-based Microcontrollers

Red Probe+ is a USB High Speed debug probe specially designed for use with ARM-based Microcontrollers

Featuring complete integration with Red Suite, Red Probe+ allows high speed download to RAM and direct programming of on-chip Flash.

When used with Cortex-M3 targets, built-in support for SWV allows full support for data trace, instruction and exception profiling and application sourced diagnostics. Together with Red Suite, Red Probe+ provides a complete development and debug environment for ARM-based microcontrollers.

Red Probe+ is a direct replacement for Red Probe

Red Suite and LPCXpresso comparison table

Feature	LPCXpresso	Red Suite NXP 256k	Red Suite NXP 512K	Red Suite Full License
Price (Perpetual license)	Free	$256	$512	$999 [2]
IDE Features
C/C++ Support	C	C/C++	C/C++	C/C++
Support for 3rd party plugins	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Debug features
Download Limit	128k	256k	512k	Unlimited
JTAG/SWD interfaces supported	LPC-Link, Red Probe, Red Probe+, RDB1768	LPC-Link, Red Probe, Red Probe+, RDB1768	LPC-Link, Red Probe, Red Probe+, RDB1768	LPC-Link, Red Probe, Red Probe+, RDB1768, TI Stellaris ICDI and selected Evaluation boards
Peripheral displays	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Red Trace	No	Yes [1]	Yes [1]	Yes [1]
Red State	Yes (NXP SCT only)	Yes	Yes	Yes
Standalone flash programming	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Evaluations	No	No	No	Yes
Inclusive Support	Web-based forum	90 days (renewable)	90 days (renewable)	1 year (renewable)
Supported MCU Families	LPCXpresso	Red Suite NXP 256k	Red Suite NXP 512K	Red Suite Full License
STMicroelectronics
STM32F1 family	No	No	No	Yes
STM32F2 family	No	No	No	Yes
STM32F4 family	No	No	No	Yes
Texas Instruments
Stellaris LM4F family	No	No	No	Yes
Stellaris LM3S family	No	No	No	Yes
NXP
LPC1100/LPC1200	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
LPC1300/LPC1700/LPC1800	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
LPC4300	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
LPC2100/2200	LPC2109/2134/2142	Yes	Yes	Yes
LPC2300/2400	LPC2362	Yes	Yes	Yes
LPC2900	LPC2929	Yes	Yes	Yes
LPC3100	LPC3130	Yes	Yes	Yes
LPC3200	LPC3250	Yes	Yes	Yes
Host Platforms	LPCXpresso	Red Suite NXP 256k	Red Suite NXP 512K	Red Suite Full License
Hosts	Microsoft Windows [3] Linux	Microsoft Windows [3]	Microsoft Windows [3]	Microsoft Windows [3] Linux [4] Mac OS X

Notes

[1] Red Trace is only available with Red Probe or compatible debug interfaces.
[2] 10% discount available on the full version of Red Suite for LPCXpresso customers. This offer does not apply to NXP Editions. See product page for details.
[3] Microsoft Windows XP SP2 or later, 32-bit and 64 bit editions
[4] Selected distributions only. Contact us for details.

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Products: For developing ARM®-based microcontroller applications