We have three of the new devboards as prizes, thanks to Farnell element14, which are worth £17 each.  Enter the compo »

The boards are aimed at NFC-related prototyping – for applications such as smart home gateways, motion control,  wearables and robotics – and the LPC8N04 requires a minimal number of external components.

Farnell says:

The LPC8N04 contains multiple features, including multiple power-down modes and a selectable CPU frequency of up to 8MHz, for ultra-low power consumption.

Key features:

• Arm Cortex-M0+ core running up to 8 MHz
• Nested Vectored Interrupt Controller (NVIC)
• Arm Serial Wire Debug (SWD)
• 32 kB flash, 8 kB SRAM, 4 kB on-chip EEPROM
• Up to 12 General-Purpose I/O (GPIO)
• Programmable Watchdog Timer (WDT)
• Real-Time Clock (RTC) Timer
• NFC/RFID ISO 14443 type A interface
• Serial I2C-bus supporting full I2C-bus specification and Fast-mode with a data rate of 400 kbit/s
• SPI/SSP interface
• The LPC8N04 can also be powered from the NFC field
• Activation via NFC
• Temperature sensor with +/- 1.5°C accuracy from – 40°C to 85°C
• Compatible with MCUXpresso IDE and other popular toolchains (incl. IAR and Keil)

Enter the compo »

The closing date is 30 April 2018. Note, also, that you do have to supply some details to Farnell element14 to enter the prize draw.

Good luck!