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MCX Industrial and IoT Microcontrollers

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Designed for the next era of Industrial and IoT Edge

The MCX portfolio is a comprehensive selection of Arm® Cortex®-M33 based MCUs, offering expanded scalability with breakthrough product capabilities, simplified system design and a developer-focused experience through our MCUXpresso SUITE OF SOFTARE AND TOOLS.

The new simplified system design offers optimal enablement and intelligent peripherals for the secure connected edge including machine learning, wireless, voice, motor control, analog and more.

Target Applications

Industrial

Factory Automation
Power & Energy
Building Control
Medical Equipment

Smart Home

Control & Security
Smart Appliances
Home Entertainment
Health & Fitness

General Embedded

Industrial/Consumer HMI
Hand-held Devices
Power Tools
General Purpose Embedded Control

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MCX N Series
MCX A Series
MCX W (coming soon)
MCX L (coming soon)

Hardware Platforms

FRMD Development Boards

Standard form factor and headers
Easy access to MCU I/Os
On-board MCU-Link debugger

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Rapid Application Development

Broad range of supported modules
Shield boards come with standard, pre-populated headers
EXPANSION BOARD HUB to find add-on boards from NXP and our partners with related MCUXpresso SDK-compatible drivers and examples
Development for Connectivity, Graphics, Machine Learning, Motor Control, Sensors, Touch and Voice

Easy Software Integration

Application middleware from NXP and Open-CMSIS-Packs
Easily find software examples and demos from your browser or directly in NXP IDEs using APPLICATION CODE HUB

FRDM-MCXN947 Development Board

FRDM-MCXN947 are compact and scalable development boards for rapid prototyping of MCX N94 and N54 MCUs. They offer industry standard headers for easy access to the MCU’s I/Os, integrated open-standard serial interfaces, external flash memory and an on-board MCU-Link debugger.

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Full Featured Evaluation Kits

Full featured MCX N eval kits offer industry standard headers for easy access to the MCU’s I/Os, integrated open-standard serial interfaces and an on-board MCU-Link debugger with power measurement capability.

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MCX N Portfolio

MCX N MCUs include our EdgeLock® Secure Enclave, Core Profile offering a secure-by-design approach, secure boot with an immutable root-of-trust and hardware-accelerated cryptography.

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Key Feature Highlights

Performance

Dual CM33 150MHz
DSP, NPU

Intelligent Peripherals

Flexcomm, FlexIO, FlexPWM, FlexSPI
Touch, Motor Control, Analog

Advanced Security

Crypto, Tamper-Detect
Life-cycle management

Power and Operation

Buck DC-DC, Core LDO, other LDOs
Separate AO domain on VBAT pin
Operating voltage: 1.71V to 3.6V
Temperature range: -40 to 105 °C
IOs: 1.71V to 3.6V

Package Options

VFBGA184: 9 x 9 x 0.86 mm, 0.5 mm pitch
HLQFP100: 14 x 14 x 1.4 mm, 0.5 mm pitch

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Different configuration by part numbers – see datasheet

	MCX N94x	MCX N54x
Cortex-M33	150 MHz dual-core	150 MHz dual-core
Accelerators	PowerQuad, NPU, SmartDMA, PLC Accelerator	PowerQuad, NPU, SmartDMA
Flash	~ 2x 1MB	~ 2x 1MB
RAM	~ 512kB w/ 32kB ECC	~ 512kB w/ 32kB ECC
Octal /Quad SPI I/F	Y	Y
Interfaces	10x FlexComm, 2x I3C, 1x Ethernet 10/100, SDIO, EMV Smart Card Interface	10x FlexComm, 2x I3C, 1x Ethernet 10/100, SDIO, EMV Smart Card Interface
USB	HS H/D* + FS H/D	HS H/D + FS H/D
CAN-FD	2	1
EdgeLock Secure Enclave Core Profile	Y w/ secure boot & TZ	Y w/ secure boot & TZ
ADC	2x 16b 2Msps differential Inputs or 4x single ended, 12b mode at 3.2Msps	2x 16b 2Msps differential Inputs or 4x single ended, 12b mode at 3.2Msps
Comparators	3	2
DAC	2x 12b, 1x 14b	2x 12b
Op Amps	3	-
Motor Control Subsystem	2x FlexPWM, 2x QDC, SINC Filter	1x FlexPWM, 1x QDC
HMI	~ 4ch SAI, 4ch DMIC*, parallel CSI, graphic LCD, cap touch	~ 4ch SAI, 4ch DMIC, parallel CSI, graphic LCD, cap touch
GPIO	up to 78 in 100pin, up to 124 in 184pin	up to 74 in 100pin, up to 124 in 184pin
Package	VFBGA184 HLQFP100 (coming later in 2024)	VFBGA184 HLQFP100 (coming later in 2024)

FRDM-MCXA153 Development Board

MCX A: The New All-Purpose MCU and Enriched FRDM Development Platform. FRDM-MCXA153 are compact and scalable development boards for rapid prototyping of MCX A14 and A15 MCUs.

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MCX A Portfolio

MCX A series MCUs, powered by the Arm® Cortex®-M33, are general-purpose MCUs designed to address a wide range of applications with scalable device options, low power and intelligent peripherals.

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Key feature highlights

I/O Capability and Intelligent Peripherals

Up to 8 Hi-drive 20mA pins
50MHz IOs on select ports
5V tolerant IOs on select pins
Up to 52 GPIOs on 64LQFP package
12-bit ADC with reduced bandwidth 16b mode

Power and Operation

Capless LDO power architecture
Operating voltage: 1.7 to 3.6V
Temperature range: -40 to 125°C
IOs: 1.71V to 3.6V

Package Options

64LQFP: 10 x 10 x 1.4 mm, 0.5 mm pitch
48QFN: 7 x 7 x 0.9 mm, 0.5 mm pitch
32QFN: 5 x 5 x 0.9 mm, 0.5 mm pitch

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	MCX A15x	MCX A14x
Cortex-M33	96MHz	48MHz
Flash	~ 1x128KB	~ 1x128KB
RAM	~32kB w/ 8kB ECC	~32kB w/ 8kB ECC
Serial I/F	LPUARTx3 LPSPI x2 LPI2C x1 I3C x1	LPUARTx3 LPSPI x2 LPI2C x1 I3C x1
USB	FS D	FS D
DMA	1x 4ch	1x 4ch
Security	Code Read Protect, Code Watchdog, UID, Glitch Attack Prevention	Code Read Protect, Code Watchdog, UID, Glitch Attack Prevention
Power Topology	LDO	LDO
ADC	1x 12b single ended at 4Msps w/ Reduced bandwidth 16b mode	1x 12b single ended at 3Msps w/ Reduced bandwidth 16b mode
Comparators	2	2
GPIO	up to 52 in 64 pin	up to 52 in 64 pin
Package	QFN32, QFN48, LQFP64	QFN32, QFN48, LQFP64