LPC8N04

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LPC8N04 is a cost-effective MCU which serves as an entry-level connectivity solution for embedded applications with integrated NFC connectivity. The LPC8N04 MCU contains multiple features, including several power-down modes and a selectable CPU frequency of up to 8 MHz for ultra-low power consumption. The peripheral complement of the LPC8N04 MCU includes 32 kB of flash memory, 8 kB of SRAM, 4 kB of EEPROM, one I2C, one SPI/SSP, and up to 12 general purposes I/O pins.

Features :

  • System
    • ARM Cortex-M0+ processor running at frequencies of up to 8 MHz
    • ARM Cortex-M0+ built-in Nested Vectored Interrupt Controller (NVIC)
    • ARM Serial Wire Debug (SWD)
    • System tick timer
    • IC reset input
    • Memory
      • 32 kB on-chip flash programming memory
      • 4 kB on-chip EEPROM of which 256 byte can be write protected
      • 8 kB SRAM
    • Digital peripherals
      • Up to 12 General Purpose Input Output (GPIO) pins with configurable pull-up/pull-down resistors and repeater mode
      • GPIO pins which can be used as edge and level sensitive interrupt sources
      • High-current drivers/sinks (20 mA) on four GPIO pins
      • High-current drivers/sinks (20 mA) on two I2C-bus pins
      • Programmable WatchDog Timer (WDT)
    • Analog peripherals
      • Temperature sensor with ±1.5 °C absolute temperature accuracy between -40 °C and +85 °C
    • Communication interfaces
      • NFC/RFID ISO 14443 type A interface
      • I2C-bus interface supporting full I2C-bus specification and fast mode with a data rate of 400 kbit/s, with multiple address recognition and monitor mode
    • Energy harvesting functionality to power the LPC8N04.
    • OTA firmware update using Secondary Bootloader (SBL) library (See TN00040: LPC8N04: Encrypted Over the Air (OTA) Firmware update using NFC). OTA firmware update available on Boot ROM version 0.14.
    • Clock generation
      • 8 MHz internal RC oscillator, trimmed to 2 % accuracy, which is used for the system clock
      • Timer oscillator operating at 32 kHz linked to the RTC timer unit
    • Power control
      • Support for 1.72 V to 3.6 V external voltages
      • The LPC8N04 can also be powered from the NFC field
      • Activation via NFC possible
      • Integrated Power Management Unit (PMU) for versatile control of power consumption
      • Four reduced power modes for ARM Cortex-M0+: sleep, deep sleep, deep power-down and battery off
      • Power gating for each analog peripheral for ultra-low power operation
      • < 50 nA IC current consumption in battery off mode at 3.0 V
      • Power-On Reset (POR)

Applications :

Configurable LED strip/Christmas tree LEDs via NFC

Smart toy/interactive robot data logger

Buttonless/contactless control panel

Contactless diagnostic

NFC e-locker

Smart manufacturing

NFC OTA

IDE :

MCUXpresso Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

Farees Ahmed

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