General description
NXP Semiconductors designed the LPC2420/2460 microcontroller around a 16-bit/32-bit ARM7TDMI-S CPU core with real-time debug interfaces that include both JTAG and embedded trace. The LPC2420/2460 is flashless. The LPC2420/2460 can execute both 32-bit ARM and 16-bit Thumb instructions. Support for the two instruction sets means engineers can choose to optimize their application for either performance or code size at the sub-routine level. When the core executes instructions in Thumb state it can reduce code size by more than 30 % with only a small loss in performance while executing instructions in ARM state maximizes core performance.

APPLICATIONs
◾ Industrial control
◾ Medical systems
◾ Protocol converter
◾ Communications