Beside the standard Lime Suite NG, which provides users with various SDR use cases and frameworks, NXP provides these elementary building blocks:

• NXP Debian Linux SDK
• vspa_common: Collection of existing signal processing VSPA kernels
• VSPA toolchain and VSPA cycle accurate simulator
• IQPlayer: Basic time domain IQ streamer
• FR1FR2TestTool/DFE: 5G low PHY reference code

We’ve just pushed updated versions of the NXP LA9310 software components aligned with latest Linux SDK and development platforms. Check out the LA9310 Porting Guide for details. This provides guidance to enable the LimeSDR Micro M.2 board on various NXP platforms, such as FRDM-IMX8MPLUS, FRDM-IMX95, LS1043ARDB, LS1046ARDB, LX2160ARDB and HoneyComb LX2.

In addition, we’re working on turning the released VSPA development tools flow into an agentic toolchain. This approach will enable LLM agents, like Claude Code, to interact with the simulator and debugger, build hooks, and access the VSPA instruction set skill pack. This leads to agentic end‑to‑end workflow from kernel creation through simulation‑in‑the‑loop validation to on‑device debugging.

By encoding best practices as reusable skills and exposing execution capabilities via standardized MCP interfaces, we aim to significantly lower the entry barrier for advanced DSP VSPA development on the LA9310. We are building this openly together with the open‑source community to support rapid prototyping all the way from research to scalable solutions.

—Maximilian Stark and Francois Massot-Pellet
NXP SDR enthusiasts