The LPC2478 and LPC2470 microcontrollers are the industry’s only ARM7™ Flash-based MCU´s offering integrated LCD support .  The LPC2470 is the Flashless version of the LPC2478.

The new microcontrollers feature two ARM® high-speed buses (AHB) for the concurrent operation of multiple high-bandwidth peripherals, including LCD, 10/100 Ethernet, USB host/OTG/device, and two CAN channels. 

The NXP LPC2478 and LPC2470 microcontrollers can support most static LCD displays – up to 1024 x 768 pixels, 15 gray-scale monochromes and up to 24 bits per pixel true color TFT panels.  For embedded system designers, the LCD implementation allows code execution on-chip and minimizes bus contention with frame data retrieval from external memory.  In addition, the new microcontrollers provide 512KB, fast 128-bit wide embedded Flash with built-in error correction, for maximum reliability.  The LPC2478 and LPC2470 require only single voltage (3.3V) power supply and offer a unique real-time clock (RTC) with 2KB of battery backed-up SRAM, allowing the device to consume only small amounts of current in power-down while quickly waking up with an external interrupt or at user-determined intervals.

Features

• 72-MHz, 32-bit ARM7 core with dual AHB interfaces
• 512 KB of fast 128-bit wide embedded Flash (LPC2478 only)
• LCD interface
• 10/100 Ethernet MAC interface with DMA
• USB 2.0 full-speed OTB/Device/OHCI plus PHY and DMA
• Two CAN 2.0B controllers with acceptance filtering
• External interfaces to SRAM, SDRAM, and NOR Flash
• 10-bit A/D converter and 10-bit D/A converter
• Multiple serial interfaces: three I2C buses, four UARTs, two-input and two-output I2S, three SPI/SSP, SD/MMC card
• Real-time clock (RTC) with 2 KB of battery backed-up SRAM
• Single 3.3 V power supply
• Available in 208 TFBGA and LQFP packages

 

Benefits

• Significant savings in cost, area, and power consumption
• Ideal for a wide range of industrial, consumer, retail and medical systems using LCD panels and requiring network or Internet connectivity
• LCD implementation allows code execution on-chip