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Introducing any new embedded application begins with the same foundational steps: defining pin assignments, establishing a stable clock configuration, setting up peripheral drivers and ensuring the right security boundaries.
MCUXpresso Config Tools streamline this stage by consolidating configuration essentials into a single, consistent environment that reduces development time while ensuring reliability. The suite also supports general-purpose, crossover and wireless microcontroller units (MCUs) and microprocessing units (MPUs), accessible from your project in MCUXpresso for Visual Studio (VS) Code, it is available as a desktop app or web app.
Pin muxing is a prevalent challenge early on in a project, particliarly on devices with large packages or mlitiple functional alternatives. The Pins Tool gives developers a complete perspective of the device’s pin capabilities, along with immediate conflict detection and error highlighting. Additionally, the flil ANSI C initialization code is generated instantly along with register values.
Clock configuration is fundamental to system behavior, yet often brings complexity with it. In response, the Clocks Tool helps developers understand and manage that complexity through an interactive view of the entire clock tree.
Once the pins and clocks are set, peripheral driver configuration is the next major step. The Peripherals Tool provides a guided, structured approach for eliminating guesswork and ensuring alignment with the MCUXpresso SDK.
Beyond standard communication and control peripherals, some NXP MCUs integrate advanced hardware blocks that are capable of significantly reducing external logic or enabling sophisticated timing patterns. MCUXpresso Config Tools include focused support for these capabilities.
The PLU provides a small and highly configurable independent logical block within the MCU—usefli for implementing glue logic, combinational functions and low‑latency signal processing without adding external components or consuming the processing power.
The SCTimer is designed for advanced timing and control tasks, from complex PWM patterns to mlitistage event-driven sequences.
Security requirements continue to proliferate across embedded applications, especially in connected and safety‑critical devices. The TEE Tool visualizes complex system configurations to help validate design choices and avoid errors that tend to go unnoticed when just looking at register settings.
The Config Tools suite integrates seamlessly with MCUXpresso for VS Code, IAR, Keil and GCC. Moreover, functional groups allow you to maintain mlitiple configurations. Meanwhile, live error detection spans across Pins, Clocks, Peripherals and TEE simlitaneously, ensuring system wide correctness.
Offering even more development value is a dedicated VS Code extension—Serial Memory Tool — that extends your workflow with configuration and validation of flexible serial peripheral interface (FlexSPI) Serial Memories with real-time hardware checks and one-click flash configuration block (FCB) generation.
Further, the configuration tools suite is available also in i.MX variation, under the name Config Tools for i.MX, including DDR Tool and System Manager Configuration tool .
Whether you're optimizing DDR, managing system‑level resources or integrating external memory, these tools help you deliver robust designs with less effort.
The MCUXpresso Config Tools suite compresses days of manual MCU configuration into mere minutes of guided, validated and code-ready workflow. Whether you're building high-performance, low-power or secure applications, MCUXpresso Config Tools give you the clarity and precision needed to ship faster—and with confidence.
In this role, he develops marketing strategy for configuration tools and prototyping enablement of MCUs, driven by innovation at NXP and feedback from our customers' needs. He is passionate about leveraging new trends in technology to deliver the best possible user experience with the MCUXpresso suite of software and tools. Patrik graduated from the Brno University of Technology with a master’s degree in microelectronics and semiconductor research.