Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.
User's Guide
FRDM-KW40Z Freescale Freedom
Development Board
User's Guide
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About this guide
This manual describes the hardware for the Freescale
Freedom development board, FRDM-KW40Z. The
FRDM-KW40Z Freedom development board is a small,
low-power, cost-effective evaluation and development board
for application prototyping and demonstration of the
MKW40Z SoC family of devices. These evaluation boards
offer an easy-to-use mass-storage device mode flash
programmer, a virtual serial port and classic programming
and run-control capabilities.
The MKW40Z SoC is an ultra low-power, highly integrated
single-chip device that enables Bluetooth Low Energy
(BLE) or IEEE
Std. 802.15.4/ZigBee RF connectivity for
®
portable, extremely low-power embedded systems. The
MKW40Z SoC family integrates a radio transceiver
operating in the 2.36 GHz to 2.48 GHz range supporting a
range of FSK/GFSK and O-QPSK modulations, and ARM
Cortex
- M0+ CPU, 160 KB flash memory and 20 KB
®
SRAM, BLE Link Layer hardware, 802.15.4 packet
processor hardware and peripherals optimized to meet the
requirements of the target applications.
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Audience
This manual is intended for system designers.
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Document Number: FRDMKW40ZUG
Contents
1. About this guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.1. Audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
2. Safety information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2.1. FCC guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2.2. Regulatory approval for Canada (IC RSS 210) . . . . . 3
2.3. Electrostatic discharge considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.4. Disposal instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. FRDM-KW40Z overview and description . . . . . . . . . 4
3.1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.2. Board features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3.3. Software and driver considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
4. FRDM-KW40Z development board . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4.1. FRDM-KW40Z board overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4.2. Functional description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4.3. Schematic, board layout, and bill of material . . . . . . 23
5. PCB manufacturing specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
5.1. Single PCB construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
5.2. Panelization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
5.3. Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
5.4. Solder mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
5.5. Silk screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
5.6. Electrical PCB testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
5.7. Packaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
5.8. Hole specification/tool table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
5.9. File descriptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
6. Revision history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Rev. 1, 06/2015
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