From the mbed to a real product with the LPC1768

# 01 Jul 2012

Hi there

I am currently working on my own Flightcontroller which should go in production later on.. But I am currently not experienced with electronics which is the sad truth. (working on that)

So is it possible to design (not me but people who can) a real PCB with this processor that can just run my .bin file as a standalone processor? Or do I always need all the stuff on the board to let it work?

Thanks for your great help people!

Jesse

Herson Bagay

# 02 Jul 2012

it is possible but you would need a programmer. The cheapest one is the lpcxpresso board with built it lpclink. you would use this to dump the hex file/bin file to your custom board via SWD/JTAG provided by the lpclink

Anthony Loeppert

# 02 Jul 2012

Jesse Struyvelt wrote:

which should go in production later on.. But I am currently not experienced with electronics which is the sad truth. (working on that)

So is it possible to design (not me but people who can) a real PCB with this processor that can just run my .bin file as a standalone processor? Or do I always need all the stuff on the board to let it work?

Yes, of course it is possible. MBED even give us some hints: http://mbed.org/media/uploads/chris/mbed-010.2-schematic.pdf

Beware... getting into the hardware business though. SW is much simpler to make money on IMHO.

Regards, Anthony

Anthony Loeppert

# 02 Jul 2012

Anthony Loeppert wrote:

Jesse Struyvelt wrote:

which should go in production later on.. But I am currently not experienced with electronics which is the sad truth. (working on that)

So is it possible to design (not me but people who can) a real PCB with this processor that can just run my .bin file as a standalone processor? Or do I always need all the stuff on the board to let it work?

Yes, of course it is possible. MBED even give us some hints: http://mbed.org/media/uploads/chris/mbed-010.2-schematic.pdf

Beware... getting into the hardware business though. SW is much simpler to make money on IMHO.

If and when I product'ize any work done with this chip, I'd think long and hard on the volumes needed to go through the trouble of manufacturing a custom board.

Regards, Anthony

Anthony Loeppert

# 02 Jul 2012

Sorry, some weird thing happened on the previous post, I was editing my own post, but it quoted instead.

ceri clatworthy

# 02 Jul 2012

As far as designing your own board, is is not that difficult, unfortuanatly NXP do not make any chips with 'REAL' legs, so stripboard is out of the question :(

as for programming, it is ver simple, using a serial port (FTDI USB <->RS232) the files you create in MBED compiler WILL just work,

BUT

No Local File System

I do belive that there are adaptor PCB's to make a small daughter board up, are avalable, check out Sparkfun, & Coolcomponents

and also LPC MINI, although I have not seen any recent activity (MBED site)

And, ubiquatusly: Heare is one I made earlier

If you neen more info please contact me,

Cheers

Ceri

Martin Smith

# 02 Jul 2012

Hi,

Just to echo Ceri, I too have experience in designing PCBs from mbed designs. I wrote a notebook page here

If your interested in working with me on a design for you then private message me

Regards Martin

Anthony Loeppert

# 02 Jul 2012

Martin Smith wrote:

Hi,

Just to echo Ceri, I too have experience in designing PCBs from mbed designs. I wrote a notebook page here

If your interested in working with me on a design for you then private message me

Regards Martin

Very cool! I might find a use for such a tool in the future.

Ashwin Athani

# 05 Jul 2012

Hi Jesse,

You might want to consider this http://shop.ngxtechnologies.com/product_info.php?cPath=21_33&products_id=100. mx-LPC1768-S is pin and binary compatible with mbed. You can program it using external debuggers that support LPC1768 flash programming. You might also consider using the mx-baseboard http://shop.ngxtechnologies.com/product_info.php?cPath=21_34&products_id=96.

-Ashwin

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