Thursday, June 21, 2012

Getting started with mX-LPC1343-S board from NGX Technologies

The mX-LPC1343-S is a low cost board on LPC1343 from NGX technologies. To get started with this board you need to upgrade the firmware of the debugger(I am not sure whether this is necessary, but I did it!!!). First short the jumper JP1, you can do this by a single wire as shown below.

Jumper JP1 shorted using a wire

After this, connect your board to your PC. This board will be listed as 'USB Mass Storage' in your device manager. When you go inside the drive you can see something similar as shown below. Factory fresh board will have default debugger bin file.


Screenshot of the drive contents
Download the latest firmware from here.
Download ColinkEx USB driver v1.2.0 from here.
Install the downloaded USB drivers and replace the previous version of firmware with the latest firmware in the mounted drive.

Screenshot of drive with the latest firmware.
After pasting, unplug and re-plug the usb cable. Now you can find two additional devices in your device manager as shown below. One is a virtual COM port and other is the CooCox ColinkEx Debug Interface.



Screenshot of Device manager after upgrading the firmware.

Now you are good to go!!! Using CoFlash, you can download the bin to the uC's flash as shown below. You can also debug your code using CoIDE.


CoFlash in action
You can find CooCox MDK plugin in CooCox website, using which you can debug with the Keil IDE.

Good Luck!!!

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