Listen to lectures, get boards, win prizes... LPC5500 Challenge has started, experts welcome to join!

Following last year's LPC dual-core competition, the 2019 NXP Cup MCU Challenge has kicked off. This competition will be based on NXP Semiconductors' latest generation of general-purpose microcontrollers, the LPC5500 series, and aims to promote more energy-efficient, smarter and safer MCU applications.

The LPC5500 series is the industry's first dual-core ArmCortex-M33-based microcontroller, using the latest generation of 40nm production technology to achieve more on-chip functions, and integrates hardware accelerator PowerQuad, efficient power management, larger storage space and other advantages, while improving performance while maintaining the lowest power consumption and cost advantages. In addition, the LPC5500 MCU series has established a complete ecosystem including MCUXpresso software and tools, which can help developers give full play to the advantages and characteristics of LPC5500 and create your own unique work!

To participate in this competition, please read the following points:

• Before the competition, NXP will provide comprehensive training and guidance to the contestants.

• As long as the competition proposal you submit is novel and convincing enough, you will get the LPCXpresso55S69 development board for free.

• Submit complete work as required and you will have a chance to win a grand prize of up to 13,000 yuan!

For the specific competition strategy, follow me.

As the saying goes, sharpening the knife saves time before chopping wood. Before the competition, NXP prepared three online technical training sessions for the contestants, so that you can have a more thorough understanding of the characteristics of LPC5500 and master more development secrets. The training details are as follows, welcome to watch ↓↓↓

This training starts with an overall introduction to the LPC5500 series, examining this high-performance, low-power, and high-security general-purpose MCU from six perspectives: core, peripherals, power consumption, performance, security, and applications.

At the same time, we will demonstrate the ease of use and versatility of the LPC5500 core Cortex-M33 by introducing the rapid porting of code from the Cortex-M4F core to the Cortex-M33 platform.

Finally, the unique dual-core functions and application methods of the LPC5500 series are introduced in detail.

This training will introduce the LPC5500 series microcontrollers, the on-chip integrated PowerQuad math acceleration coprocessor and its basic usage.

In this tutorial, we will briefly introduce the hardware overview of PowerQuad, then explain the usage of several computing engines of PowerQuad from a practical perspective, and finally compare the computing functions accelerated by PowerQuad hardware with the pure software CMSIS-DSP, so that students can have a more specific understanding of the functions and performance of PowerQuad.

This tutorial is mainly aimed at practical application, and strives to enable students to get started with PowerQuad as soon as possible and use it in actual projects. Some in-depth and advanced topics about PowerQuad are not included in this tutorial. Interested students can further pay attention to the LPC5500 product homepage on the NXP official website to obtain more manuals, application notes and sample codes.

This training combines the application of artificial neural networks and introduces a development method for deploying artificial neural networks based on the PowerQuad hardware computing engine. It is compared with the implementation based on CMSIS-DSP, so that the acceleration effect of PowerQuad hardware acceleration compared to pure software computing can be actually seen.

In the example of this tutorial, the pytorch framework is used to train the model on the host computer. After obtaining the training parameters, they are imported into the project of the LPC5500 microcontroller, and the model is deployed on the LPC5500 for derivation and calculation.

This is the most familiar routine for everyone - submit your competition ideas. As long as the ideas are good enough, NXP will provide you with the LPCXpresso55S69 development board for free as the competition development platform. With good equipment in hand, you will be invincible!

With good ideas and the LPCXpresso55S69 development board , it’s time to get down to work! As long as you submit your work before December 22, you can participate in the final grand prize competition!

• The project must use the LPC55S69 development board;
  

• Final projects must be submitted using a unified project template;

• The final project must have complete documentation, including the following:

- Project Introduction

- Works images

- Demo Video

-BOM

- Circuit diagrams and printed circuit boards

- Code that can be displayed through online code servers (Github, Gitee, Bitbucket, etc.)

If you can meet the above requirements, bonuses and prizes are waiting for you~

For more information about the competition, please click here

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