New NXP Freedom development platform eases Zigbee and 802.15.4 connectivity

Farnell element14 and NXP have announced the launch of NXP’s new freedom development platform for Kinetis KW2x MCUs, which lets designers easily add Zigbee or 802.15.4 connectivity to electronics designs. The kit contains two boards, enabling point-to-point out of the box connectivity. It has a diverse reference design with all the necessary I/O connections for use as a self-contained board or for connection to an external application. The FRDM-KW24D512 is a development platform based on the MKW24D512 Kinetis W Series microcontroller and is enabled by software support for Thread, ZigBee Pro, 802.15.4 MAC, SMAC and Kinetis software development kit (SDK). Kinetis MKW24D512 MCU is a low-power, compact integrated device consisting of a high-performance 2.4 GHz IEEE 802.15.4 compliant radio transceiver and a powerful ARM Cortex-M4 core system with connectivity and precision mixed-signal analog peripherals. FRDM-KW24D512 evaluation boards are designed to work either in standalone mode or as part of the Freedom development platforms for quick application prototyping.