New wireless MCUs for smart industrial edge and IoT devices

Mouser is now shipping the new MCX W series MCUs from NXP Semiconductors. The series is compact, secure, wireless MCUs designed to facilitate interoperable, scalable and innovative designs for the next generation of smart and secure connected devices in edge, IoT, smart home, building automation and controls, and smart energy applications.

The series is based on the Arm Cortex-M33 core, delivering a unified range of pin-compatible multiprotocol wireless MCUs for Matter, Thread, Bluetooth Low Energy and Zigbee. The series includes the industry's first wireless MCU to support the new Bluetooth Channel Sounding standard, which improves the accuracy and security of distance measurement compared to conventional Bluetooth technology for a wide range of applications, such as secure access, asset tracking and indoor wayfinding. With NXP's Trimension portfolio of UWB secure radar and fine-ranging products, The series improves a wide range of market segments and applications in ambient computing. The series supports standalone or hosted architectures and is pin and software-compatible, enabling developers to easily migrate to the part that best fits their use case. The MCUXpresso Developer Experience supports the series.

Mouser also supplies the NXP FRDM-MCXW71 development board. This compact and scalable multiprotocol board allows for rapid prototyping and easy evaluation of the MCXW71 wireless MCU, with wireless support for Bluetooth LE, Zigbee, Thread, and Matter. The board includes an onboard MCU-Link debugger, industry-standard headers for easy access to the MCU's I/Os, an accelerometer, a light sensor, and external SPI flash memory.