The mbed Microcontroller is a 32-bit ARM processor with a comprehensive set of peripherals and a built-in USB interface, all provided in a small and practical DIP package.

It is designed specifically to make ARM microcontrollers easily accessible for rapid prototyping and experimentation. Some of the features include:

• 0.1" DIP pins so you can use it in breadboard, stripboard and through-hole pcbs
• Powered via USB or an external power source
• Re-program it like a FLASH drive; it appears as a USB disk, and you just drag on your .bin files
• Has on-board LEDS, and provides a serial port over the USB connection to allow for printf-style debugging

Here are the variants available:

mbed NXP LPC1768¶

This mbed Microcontroller is based on the NXP LPC1768 with an ARM Cortex-M3 Core running at 96MHz, 512KB FLASH, 64KB RAM and lots of interfaces including Ethernet, USB Device and Host, CAN, SPI, I2C and other I/O.

• For full details, see mbed NXP LPC1768

mbed NXP LPC2368¶

Note: This is the mbed Microcontroller that was used during our original beta trials. We still support it, but in most cases the newer mbed NXP LPC1768 would be a better choice.

This mbed Microcontroller is based on an ARM7 Core running at 60MHz, with 512KB FLASH, 32KB RAM and lots of interfaces including Ethernet, USB Device, CAN, SPI, I2C and other I/O.

• For full details, see mbed NXP LPC2368

Firmware¶

For firmware updates, see Firmware