NXP Semiconductors LPCXpresso Development Platform

The onboard JTAG/SWD debug probe portion of an LPCXpresso Development Board is referred to as LPC-Link, or Link2 on later boards (except MAX variants). In early LPC-Link boards, the traces between the LPC-Link and the target can be cut to use the LPC-Link as a standalone JTAG debugger. On later LPCXpresso Development Boards, this can be accomplished with a simple jumper setting, enabling the LPCXpresso Board to be connected to an external target. This feature allows them to develop for various NXP's Cortex-M0, Cortex-M3, and Cortex-M4-based applications. LPC-Link can also support Arm 7/9-based applications. LPCXpresso MAX boards have an onboard debug probe that implements the CMSIS-DAP protocol to enable the user to use with LPCXpresso IDE, Mbed™, and a range of third-party tools. Link2 debug probes can be programmed to support CMSIS-DAP or evaluation versions of SEGGER J-Link using the LPCScrypt DFU utility.