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 software 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
MCX Microcontrollers Series
The MCX portfolio features four series of devices supported by the MCUXpresso Developer Experience enhanced scalability, portability and usability.
MCX N Series
- 150 MHz, 512KB-2MB
- Intelligent peripherals
- Advanced security
MCX A Series
- Up to 96 MHz, 32KB-1MB
- Intelligent peripherals
- Various multi-market device solutions
MCX W Series
- Up to 96 MHz
- Low-power Bluetooth LE, Thread and Zigbee radio optimized for IIoT and Matter applications
- Advanced security
MCX L Series
- Below 50 MHz, Up to 1MB
- Optimized for always-on, battery-operated devices
- Lowest active power and leakage
MCX N94x/54x Series
The MCX N Series of Industrial and IoT (IIoT) MCUs feature eIQ®Neutron Neural Processing Unit (NPU) for machine learning (ML) acceleration and EdgeLock® Secure Enclave Core Profile. It's designed to meet industry standards.
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The MCX N94x and MCX N54x are based on dual high-performance Arm® Cortex®-M33 cores running up to 150 MHz, with 2MB of Flash with optional full ECC RAM, a DSP co-processor and an integrated eIQ Neutron NPU. The NPU delivers up to 30x faster machine learning (ML) throughput compared to a CPU core alone enabling it to spend less time awake and reducing overall power consumption.
MCX N Series Products
| Ser-ies | Fla-sh | SRAM | CoolFlux DSP | USB HS | DAC | OP | Flex-comm | CAN-FD | Package |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N94x | 2 MB | 416 KB w ECC |
✓ | For N947 |
2x 12b + 1x 14b |
3 | 10 | 2 | VFBGA184, 9x9mm and HLQFPIOO, 14x14mm |
| N54x | 2 MB | 512 KB | - | ✓ | 1x 12b | - | 10 | -1 | VFBGA184, 9x9mm and HLQFPIOO, 14x14mm |
MCX N Series Key Features
Advanced Security
Secure-by-design approach, offering secure boot with an immutable root-of-trust, hardware accelerated cryptography and a built-in EdgeLock® Secure Enclave, Core Profile.
Core Performance
Dual-core, co-processors, accelerators and intelligent peripherals provide autonomous operation to reduce power consumption and latency.
Developer Experience
MCUXpresso IDEs, SDK, secure provisioning and configuration tools help speed up development time with high-quality software and tools.
MCX A Series
Easy-to-use MCUs that address a wide range of applications with scalable device options, low power, and intelligent peripherals
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MCX A Series are all-purpose microcontrollers that address a wide range of applications with scalable device options, low power and intelligent peripherals. MCX A series devices cover the widest range of applications and are a foundation for intelligent edge applications. They offer an optimized and cost-effective balance of performance and autonomous peripherals.
MCX A Series Key Features
Scalability & Balanced Performance
Unified core architecture to allow software compatibility, a variety of feature sets to fit different needs of applications, and package options with pin compatibility to give the ultimate flexibility.
Autonomous & Low-Power Peripherals
On-chip mixed-signal peripherals and digital communication peripherals with PHY to save PCB space, autonomous peripherals to take the load off the core for power-saving and low power modes to keep the peripheral running while the core is in sleep.
MCUXpresso Developer Experience
Power of choice for development environments & software, low-cost, scalable platforms for rapid prototyping and easy access to broad range of application examples.
MCX W Series
MCX W series are secure, wireless MCUs designed to enable more compact, scalable and innovative designs for the next generation of smart and secure connected devices.
The MCX W series, based on the Arm® Cortex®-M33, offers a unified range of pin-compatible multiprotocol wireless MCUs for Matter, Thread, Bluetooth Low Energy and Zigbee. MCX W enables interoperable and innovative smart home devices, building automation sensors and controls and smart energy products.
MCX W Series Key Features
Single MCU Platform
MCX W expands the MCX microcontroller family by offering single a MCU platform for developers with a common core, the Arm Cortex-M33, architecture, intelligent peripherals and software experience.
IoT Security
As part of NXP's Edgelock® Assurance program, the MCX W series integrates NXP's Edgelock Secure Enclave Core Profile and offers support for NXP's Edgelock 2GO key and certificate management service.
Robust Wireless Performance
With an upgradable, dedicated radio subsystem, the MCX W series is built to support Matter, Thread™, Zigbee™, Bluetooth® LE and future wireless standards.
MCX Fact Sheet
The MCX portfolio offers four Arm® Cortex®-M based MCU series with developer-focused software to simplify system design.
MCX-N Machine Learning DEMOs
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