NXP Announces ARM Cortex-M4-based MCU with Industry’s Largest Embedded SRAM Memory, Optimized for Portable Devices
March 14 2017 - 11:04AM
(Embedded World 2017) – NXP Semiconductors N.V.
(NASDAQ:NXPI) announced today its new Kinetis K27/K28 family of
ARM® Cortex®-M4-based microcontrollers (MCUs) that uniquely address
the growing requirements of portable display applications. The
latest 150 MHz Kinetis MCUs enable advanced integration in
battery-operated applications, with an increase of up to four times
the embedded SRAM offered in current MCUs, and 2MB of Flash memory.
Its large memory, coupled with expanded integration capabilities
and lower system power enable richer graphics and longer battery
life to optimize the user experience in a broad range of use cases.
“Embedded designers can now push the limits of integration to
create more competitive products with NXP’s new Kinetis K27/K28
MCUs, which makes it possible for them to get the most out of their
devices,” said Geoff Lees, senior vice president and general
manager of the microcontroller business line at NXP. “Our new
high-performance microcontrollers enable enhanced user interfaces
and high-end customized apps while extending battery life, all of
which are important when it comes to product differentiation for
IoT devices, smart home products, wearables and industrial portable
devices.”
The 1MB embedded SRAM enables lower system power and larger
graphics buffer sizes to deliver both power efficiency and high
performance; this enables users to install more software
applications and apps on wearables, and other portable graphic
display systems. The advanced integration also reduces system board
footprint addressing the need for portable devices to have small
form factors.
The latest Kinetis K27/K28 MCUs support a broad set of
peripherals, including low-power peripherals to optimize battery
life, dual USB controllers for high speed data transfer, external
memory interfaces for additional program and data storage, and
analog or other peripherals to process sensors in connected IoT
devices.
The Kinetis K27/K28 is supported by a FRDM-K28F low-cost
development platform that includes on-board discrete power
management, accelerometer, QuadSPI serial flash, USB high-speed
connector and full-speed USB OpenSDA. The FRDM-K28F board also
supports optional add-on boards to add USB-Type C and Bluetooth®
low energy (BLE) connectivity, as well as a 5” LCD display board
with capacitive touch from MikroElektronika for use cases requiring
rich graphics. Dr. Djordje Marinkovic, MikroElektronika Chief
Business Development Officer, said, “As a valued NXP partner, our
TFT Proto 5” CAPACITIVE board extension brings to life a
sophisticated visual display enabled by NXP’s new Kinetis
microcontrollers.”
Additionally, NXP provides a comprehensive software tools
through its MCUXpresso SDK that provides software enablement for
NXP Microcontrollers, including system startup, peripheral drivers,
USB and connectivity stacks, middleware, and real-time operating
system (RTOS) kernels.
Availability
The new Kinetis K27/K28 MCU family will be commercially
available in April 2017. For more information, visit
www.nxp.com/Kinetis/Kseries.
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NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NASDAQ:NXPI) enables secure connections
and infrastructure for a smarter world, advancing solutions that
make lives easier, better and safer. As the world leader in secure
connectivity solutions for embedded applications, NXP is driving
innovation in the secure connected vehicle, end-to-end security
& privacy and smart connected solutions markets. Built on more
than 60 years of combined experience and expertise, the company has
31,000 employees in more than 33 countries and posted revenue of
$9.5 billion in 2016. Find out more at www.nxp.com.
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For more information, please contact:
Americas
Tate Tran
Tel: +1 408-802-0602
Email: tate.tran@nxp.com
Europe
Martijn van der Linden
Tel: +31 6 10914896
Email: martijn.van.der.linden@nxp.com
Greater China / Asia
Esther Chang
Tel: +886 2 8170 9990
Email: esther.chang@nxp.com
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