mbed SDK

The mbed Software Development Kit (SDK) is a C/C++ microcontroller software platform relied upon by tens of thousands of developers to build projects fast.

The SDK is licensed under the permissive Apache 2.0 licence, so you can use it in both commercial and personal projects with confidence.

The mbed SDK has been designed to provide enough hardware abstraction to be intuitive and concise, yet powerful enough to build complex projects. It is built on the low-level ARM CMSIS APIs, allowing you to code down to the metal if needed. In addition to RTOS, USB and Networking libraries, a cookbook of hundreds of reusable peripheral and module libraries have been built on top of the SDK by the mbed Developer Community.

Documentation

Tools: how to setup and use the build system.
mbed library internals
Adding a new target microcontroller

Supported Microcontrollers and Boards

View all on the mbed Platforms page.

NXP:

mbed LPC1768 (Cortex-M3)
u-blox C027 LPC1768 (Cortex-M3)
mbed LPC11U24 (Cortex-M0)
EA LPC11U35 (Cortex-M0)
mbed LPC2368 (ARM7TDMI-S)
LPC2460 (ARM7TDMI-S)
LPC810 (Cortex-M0+)
LPC812 (Cortex-M0+)
EA LPC4088 (Cortex-M4F)
EA LPC4088 DM (Cortex-M4F)
LPC4330 (Cortex-M4F + Cortex-M0)
LPC1347 (Cortex-M3)
LPC1114 (Cortex-M0)
LPC11C24 (Cortex-M0)
LPC1549 (Cortex-M3)
LPC800-MAX (Cortex-M0+)
DipCortex-M0 (Cortex-M0)
DipCortex-M3 (Cortex-M3)
BlueBoard-LPC11U24 (Cortex-M0)
LPCCAPPUCCINO (Cortex-M0)
Arch (Cortex-M0)
Arch GPRS (Cortex-M0)
Arch Pro (Cortex-M3)

Freescale:

FRDM-KL05Z (Cortex-M0+)
FRDM-KL25Z (Cortex-M0+)
FRDM-KL43Z (Cortex-M0+)
FRDM-KL46Z (Cortex-M0+)
FRDM-K20D50M (Cortex-M4)
FRDM-K22F (Cortex-M4F)
FRDM-K64F (Cortex-M4F)

STMicroelectronics:

Nucleo-F030R8 (Cortex-M0)
Nucleo-F072RB (Cortex-M0)
Nucleo-L053R8 (Cortex-M0+)
Nucleo-F103RB (Cortex-M3)
Nucleo-L152RE (Cortex-M3)
Nucleo-F302R8 (Cortex-M4F)
Nucleo-F334R8 (Cortex-M4F)
Nucleo-F401RE (Cortex-M4F)
Nucleo-F410RB (Cortex-M4F)
Nucleo-F411RE (Cortex-M4F)
Nucleo-L476RG (Cortex-M4F)
STM32F4XX (Cortex-M4F)
STM32F3XX (Cortex-M4F)
STM32F0-Discovery (Cortex-M0)
STM32VL-Discovery (Cortex-M3)
STM32F3-Discovery (Cortex-M4F)
STM32F4-Discovery (Cortex-M4F)
STM32F429-Discovery (Cortex-M4F)
STM32L0-Discovery (Cortex-M0+)
STM32L4-Discovery (Cortex-M4F)
Arch Max (Cortex-M4F)

Nordic:

nRF51822-mKIT (Cortex-M0)
Arch BLE (Cortex-M0)

Renesas:

RZ-A1H (Cortex-A9)

Silicon Labs:

[EFM32 Zero Gecko] (https://developer.mbed.org/platforms/EFM32-Zero-Gecko/) (Cortex-M0+)
[EFM32 Happy Gecko] (https://developer.mbed.org/platforms/EFM32-Happy-Gecko/) (Cortex-M0+)
[EFM32 Leopard Gecko] (https://developer.mbed.org/platforms/EFM32-Leopard-Gecko/) (Cortex-M3)
[EFM32 Giant Gecko] (https://developer.mbed.org/platforms/EFM32-Giant-Gecko/) (Cortex-M3)
[EFM32 Wonder Gecko] (https://developer.mbed.org/platforms/EFM32-Wonder-Gecko/) (Cortex-M4)

Supported Toolchains and IDEs

GCC ARM: GNU Tools for ARM Embedded Processors
ARMCC (standard library and MicroLib): uVision
IAR: IAR Embedded Workbench
GCC code_red: Red Suite
GCC CodeSourcery: Sourcery CodeBench
GCC ARM: Em::Blocks
GCC ARM: CooCox CoIDE

API Documentation

RTOS API
TCP/IP Socket API (Transports: Ethernet, WiFi, 3G)
USB Device API
USB Host API
DSP API
Flash File Systems: SD, USB MSD, semihosted
Peripheral Drivers API

Community

For discussing the development of the mbed SDK itself (Addition/support of microcontrollers/toolchains, build and test system, Hardware Abstraction Layer API, etc) please join our mbed-devel mailing list.

For every topic regarding the use of the mbed SDK, rather than its development, please post on the mbed.org forum, or the mbed.org Q&A.