One of the reasons so many customers are moving away from proprietary cores to ARM cores is the broad tools and software support available for ARM processors. The LPC1700 series is backed by a ever-growing number of evaluation boards, integrated development environments, debuggers/emulators, compilers, software stacks, and many more. In addition to the traditional partner supported tools from Hitex, IAR, Keil and Code Red, the LPC1700 series is also supported by mbed and LPCXpresso. The mbed tool gives customers a rapid prototyping platform to test out ideas and concepts in the quickest way possible. The LPCXpresso platform offers the lowest cost way to evaluate, explore and develop with the LPC1700 series with NXP tools.