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4.2.1 RF performance and considerations ............................10 Introduction This guide describes the hardware for the FRDM-KW41Z Freescale Freedom development board. The FRDM-KW41Z Freedom development board is a small, low-power, and cost-effective evaluation and development board for application prototyping and demonstration of the MKW41Z SoC family of devices.
The MKW41Z SoC integrates a radio transceiver operating in the 2.402 GHz to 2.48 GHz range supporting a range of GFSK and O-QPSK modulations, an ARM Cortex-M0+ CPU, up to 512 KB Flash and up to 128 KB SRAM, BLE Link Layer hardware, 802.15.4 packet processor hardware and peripherals optimized to meet the requirements of the target applications.
Safety information 2.1 FCC guidelines This equipment is to be used by developers for evaluation purposes only, and must not be incorporated into any other device or system. This device must not be sold to the general public. Integrators are responsible for re-evaluating the end product (including the transmitter) and obtaining a separate FCC authorization.
2.1.4 Antenna restrictions An intentional radiator must be designed to ensure that no antenna (other than that furnished by the responsible party) is used with the device. Using a permanently attached antenna or an antenna that uses a unique coupling to the intentional radiator is considered sufficient to comply with the provisions of this Section.
3.2 Board features 3.2.1 FRDM-KW41Z board The FRDM-KW41Z development board is based on NXP Freedom development platform. It is the most diverse reference design containing the MKW41Z device and all necessary I/O connections for use as a standalone board, or connected to an application. You can also connect it to the Freedom development platform.
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The FRDM-KW41Z development board has these features: • F ees ale ult a-low-power MKW41Z SoC BLE/IEEE Std. 802.15.4 platform. • IEEE “td. . . , -compliant transceiver supporting 250 kbps O-QPSK data in 5.0 MHz channels, and full spread-spectrum encoding and decoding.
Figure 2: FRDM-KW41Z component placement. 3.3 Serial and Debug Adapter The FRDM-KW41Z development board includes OpenSDA v3.0-a serial and debug adapter circuit that includes an open-source hardware design, an open-source bootloader, and debug interface software. It bridges serial and debug communications between a USB host and an embedded target processor as shown in Figure 3.
32 MHz reference oscillator crystal, RF circuitry (including antenna), and supporting circuitry. The FRDM-KW41Z board is intended as the core PCB for MKW41Z device evaluation and application development, and can be used in the following modes: •...
—six-axis sensor with integrated linear accelerometer and magnetometer 4.2 Functional description The FRDM-KW41Z board is built around NXP MKW41Z SoC in a 48-pin LGA package. It features an IEEE Std. 802.15.4 and BLE 2.4 GHz radio frequency transceiver and a Kinetis family ultra-low-power, mixed- signal ARM Cortex-M0+ MCU in a single package.
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• F p i ted-metal antenna for a small-footprint, low-cost design. • Mi i u e of RF a hi g o po e ts Figure 5: FRDM-KW41Z RF circuit. FRDM-KW ) Use ’s Guide Page 11 of 11 Draft...
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