ARM7 LPC2138

Development Board

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Thank you for purchasing the ARM7 LPC2138 Development Board. This unit has been carefully
engineered and tested to provide superior performance. This document covers the features and operation of the
ARM7 LPC2138 Development Board.
This is an easy-to-use board using the popular NXP(Phillips) LPC2138 microcontroller. The board
includes everything you need to learn, develop or using for a any application. It is ideal for any kind of
autonomous or manual controlled robot.

Features

Keil MCB2130 based design

Removable Processor Board
Small Size: 75mm*60mm
ISP programming through inbuilt Booloader of LPC21XX series
Power On/Off Switch
8 indicator led's with separate jumpers for enable/disable
On board 3.3V regulator
Rest and INT1 switches
Potentiometer for ADC1
JTAG standard port
All port pins accessible through standard 8bit 10 pin connector
4 DC motor driver interface with PWM.
PWM for motor selectable through Jumpers
Optional power pins through jumpers to reduce power consumption
Capacitor filters at all power pins to reduce glitches
DTR, RTS signals for reset and bootloader enter point
Dual UART interface UART0 & UART1
UART0/Programmer selection switch on ISP Programmer
Simple 8 wire interface
Compatible with LPC2138 development board
Programmer compatible with Flash magic, LPC21ISP & LPC2000 flash utility(NXP)

ARM7 LPC2138 Development Board

CD containing all required software's and sample codes in Keil C, Relview and WinARM

This Product Includes

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Jumper settings

J2 - AV: Analog Voltage for AIN0: connects the POT1 potentiometer to the analog input AIN0.
J3 - 3.3V: Supply Voltage for CPU: connects the 3.3V Supply Voltage to the CPU.
J4 - VBAT: Supply Voltage for CPU: connects battery Supply Voltage to the CPU.
J5 - V3A: Analog Reference Voltage for CPU: connects the 3.3V Supply Voltage to the CPU Analog
Reference Input V3A.
J7 - INT1: Enable Push Button INT1: connects the push button INT1 to the CPU I/O pin P0.14 (EINT1
input). Pushing the button generates a low signal.
J9 - JTAG: Enable JTAG Interface: enables the JTAG interface. This jumper is required for ISP flashing
and for debugging via Keil ULINK or other JTAG debuggers.
J11 - VREF: A/D Converter Reference Voltage: connects 3.3V Supply Voltage VREF of the CPU.
J12 & J13: PWM Select for MOTOR1 PORT
J14 & J15: PWM Select for MOTOR2 PORT
J16 to J23: LED Select on P1.16 to P1.23 respectively

Setting up the Board

Providing Power Supply

You can provide the power supply to the board from any DC source from 4V to 20V.
The microcontroller is preprogrammed for Blinking LEDs. This is the default program provided on CD in
folder named GPIO.
To power up the board using any DC source use VDD terminal as +VE terminal and GND as VE terminal.
Be careful while applying power otherwise the regulator IC will blow up.

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Board Top Layout

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Switches

There are two small and one big switch on the board to facilitate user.
The toggle switch written with POWER on the top is to control power supply to the board.
The one written Reset at bottom is a Reset switch for microcontroller.
Switch named INT1 is connected to external interrupt pin INT1on LPC2138 for general use.
These switches do not affect the operation of the pins they are connected with. So, you can use this
microcontroller I/O pins for other use also.

LEDs

There are eight LEDs on the board.

Eight leds named LED0 to LED7 are connected to P1.16 to P1.23 respectively.
All LEDs are selectable through individual jumpers (J16 to J23) so that those pins can be used for other
external purpose.
Put respective jumper to use the Pin as normal I/O pin.

ISP (In System Programming)/UART Connector

8 pin male header denoted by PROG/UART0 & 1 on the board is used to program & communicate with
LPC2138 board.
The pins are connected to RX1, TX1, RST, P0.14, RX0, TX0, VCC, GND.

PORT0 & PORT1 Connectors

Both 32bit Ports are distributed in 8 bit ports structured as below.

There are 6 such connectors named P0.0-P0.7, P0.8-P0.15, P0.16-P0.23, P0.24-P0.31, P1.16-P1.23, P1.24P1.31
They can be accessed through FRC female connector or simple berg female connectors.

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Programming Microcontroller through Flashmagic

Set Flashmagic parameters as below.

Connect your programmer cable to your board.
Select Options-> Advanced options -> Hardware Config. Enable Use DTR and RTS to control RESET and
P0.14
Browse file that you want to program and click start to program.

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Sample codes and WINARM

Sample codes are provided in WinARM, Keil C & Realview compilers.

Install WinARM to C:\ so that WinARM bin folder is located at c:\winarm\bin.
Right click on my computer and select advanced tab. Click on environment variables.
Search for path variable and add ;C:\WinARM\bin;C:\WinARM\utils\bin;
Open Programmers notepad editor from WinARM/pn/pn.exe.
Open any sample code and click on Tools->program while your programmer is connected and board is
powered on.
It will directly program your microcontroller with respective code.
You can change sample codes written in C in Programmers notepad. Click make all and then program.

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Service and Support

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Limitations and Warranty

The ARM7 LPC2138 Development Board is intended for personal experimental and amusement use and in no case
should be used where the health or safety of persons may depend on its proper operation. Robokits provides no
warrantee of suitability or performance for any purpose for the product. Use of the product software and or hardware is
with the understanding that any outcome whatsoever is at the users own risk. Robokits sole guarantee is that the software
and hardware perform in compliance with this document at the time it was shipped to the best of our ability given
reasonable care in manufacture and testing. All products are tested for their best performance before shipping, and no
warranty or guarantee is provided on any of them. Of course the support is available on all of them for no cost.

Disclaimer
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This product and its documentation are supplied on an as-is basis and no warranty as to their suitability for any particular
purpose is either made or implied.
This document provides preliminary information that may be subject to change without notice.

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