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Experiment Board Experiment Expansion Board - a board packed with interesting experiments, including 128x128 pixel color LCD, accelerometer and Ethernet (over SPI interface). Check board page.

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LPC2103 Education Board

Features

Embedded Artists' LPC2103 Education Board is the smallest of our education boards and a good start to get to know the NXP LPC2xxx family in general and the LPC2103 in particular.
The board contains interesting on-board peripherals that are useful for experiments. The experiments can be further expanded via the expansion connector.
The board can be used for education purposes as well as for experiment and prototype projects.

Expansion Connector

The 20 pos expansion connector can be used for own experiments. The following signals are available on the expansion connector:
• P0.2 - P0.15
• P0.23 - P0.25
• Reset
• Power; VCC (+3.3V) and GND

The Experiment Expansion Board can be bought separately for more interesting and useful experiments. For details about the board, see the Experiment Expansion Board page. The picture below show the LPC2103 Education Board connected to the Experiment Expansion Board via the 20 pos flat cable.

Software

In order to ease the experiments and development of application programs Embedded Artists' Education Boards are delivered with a lot of software/sample applications.

• Pre-emptive Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) - the RTOS is delivered as a binary package together with some sample applications that illustrate different functionalities of the RTOS.
• Analog to Digital Converter - Demonstrates how to convert the analog inputs into digital values (for processors with built-in ADC).
• Code Protection - Demonstrates how to enable the code protection functionality (for processors with built-in code protection functionality).
• In-Application Programming - Demonstrates how to invoke the IAP functionality from an application program (to program the internal FLASH memory).
• UART - Demonstrates how to use the UART in an irq and a polled implementation (i.e., with or without using interrupts). Includes a general print number function.
• Polled I2C - Demonstrates how to use the I2C as a master in polled mode (i.e., without interrupts). Reading and writing to an i2c-eeprom is used as sample application.
• SPI - Demonstrates how to use the SPI as a master in both a polled and interrupt implementation.
• SWI - Demonstrates how to use SWI interrupt (software interrupts) and how to create a customer SWI handler.
• FIQ Handler - Demonstrates how to create a customer FIQ handler.
• IRQ Handler in SYS Mode - Demonstrates how to create an IRQ handler that execute interrupt handlers in SYSTEM mode, instead of IRQ mode.
• PWM Examples - Demonstrates how to vary the frequency of a PWM signal and how to vary the duty cycle of a PWM signal.
• Timer Interrupt - Demonstrates how to use a timer (in interrupt mode) as system time counter and how to register timer callback functions.
• Timer Delay - Demonstrates how a timer can be used to implement exact (polled and irq) delays.
• Power Save Mode - Demonstrates how the idle mode can be used to save power.
• Power Down Mode - Demonstrates how the power down mode (lowest power mode) can be used to save power.
• Real-Time Clock - Demonstrates how the real-time clock can be used.
• Watchdog - Demonstrates how the watchdog can be used.

QuickStart Build Environment
In order to be able to build the sample applications (and your own applications) the Education Boards are delivered with Embedded Artists' build environment. It is based on GCC v3.4.3 + newlib as the compiler.

Advantages

Embedded Artists' LPC2103 Education Board is not just another education / prototyping board. The many unique features and experiments have been developed in cooperation with universities.

• Get up-and-running quickly
  • Start developing/experimenting on day 1
  • Embedded Artists's QuickStart Build Environment included (compiler, linker, make, editor, etc.) – based on GCC
  • Rowley Associates CrossWorks devlopment environment included (30 day evaluation version)
  • IAR Embedded Workbench KickStart Compiler included (32 KByte limited)
  • Many sample applications included
  • Extensive documentation
• Real-time operating system (RTOS) included
• Board support package (BSP) included
• Simple and automatic program download (ISP)