NXP Semiconductors FRDM-KW40Z Freedom Development Board
NXP FRDM-KW40Z Freescale Freedom Development Board is a small, low-power, cost-effective evaluation and development board used for application prototyping and demonstration of the MKW40Z SoC family. These evaluation boards offer an easy-to-use mass-storage device mode flash programmer, a virtual serial port, standard programming, and run-control capabilities.
Features
- Freescale ultralow-power MKW40Z SoC BLE/IEEE Std. 802.15.4 platform
- IEEE Std. 802.15.4, 2006-compliant transceiver supporting 250kbps O-QPSK data in 5.0MHz channels, and full spread-spectrum encoding and decoding
- Fully compliant BLUETOOTH® v4.1 Low Energy (BLE)
- IEEE 802.15.4-compliant wireless node
- Reference design area with small-footprint, low-cost RF node
- Differential input/output port used with external balun for single-port operation
- Low count of external components
- Programmable output power from -20dBm to +5dBm at the SMA connector, no harmonic trap, with DC/DC Bypass and Buck modes of operation
- Receiver sensitivity
- -102dBm, typical (at 1% PER for 20-byte payload packet) for 802.15.4 applications, at the SMA connector
- -91dBm (for BLE applications)
- Integrated PCB inverted F-type antenna and SMA RF port
- Selectable power sources
- DC-DC converter with Buck, Boost, and Bypass operation modes
- 32MHz reference oscillator
- 32kHz reference oscillator
- 2.4GHz frequency operation (ISM and MBAN)
- External serial flash memory for Over-the-Air Programming (OTAP) support
- Integrated Open-Standard Serial and Debug Adapter (OpenSDA)
- Cortex 10-pin (0.05") SWD debug port for target MCU
- Cortex 10-pin (0.05") JTAG port for OpenSDA updates
- 4x red LED indicators
- 1x blue LED indicator
- 2x push-button switches
- 2x TSI buttons
Overview
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Published: 2016-04-11
| Updated: 2022-03-11