NXP Semiconductors FRDMKW41ZC2 User Manual

FRDM-KW41Z User’s Guide

Rev 0.1

NXP Semiconductors, 6501 West William Cannon Dr Mail Drop OE-59, Austin, Texas, United States
www.nxp.com

Contents

1 Introduction .............................................................................................................................................. 2

1.1 Audience ................................................................................................................................................................................. 3

2 Safety information .................................................................................................................................. 4

2.1 FCC guidelines ...................................................................................................................................................................... 4

2.1.1 Labeling .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 4

2.1.2 Operation conditions ........................................................................................................................................................................ 4

2.1.3 Exposure limits ................................................................................................................................................................................... 4

2.1.4 ISED RSS Warning .............................................................................................................................................................................. 4

2.1.5 ISED RF exposure statement ..........................................................................................................................................................4

2.2 Electrostatic dischage considerations ........................................................................................................................ 4

2.3 Disposal instructions ......................................................................................................................................................... 5

3 FRDM-KW41Z overview and description ........................................................................................ 6

3.1 Int

3.2 Board features ...................................................................................................................................................................... 6

3.3 Serial and Debug Adapter................................................................................................................................................ 7

4 FRDM-KW41Z development board ................................................................................................... 8

4.1 FRDM-KW41Z board overview ..................................................................................................................................... 8

4.2 Functional description ...................................................................................................................................................... 8

roduction .......................................................................................................................................................................... 6

3.2.1 FRDM-KW41Z board ........................................................................................................................................................................ 6

3.3.1 Virtual serial port ............................................................................................................................................................................... 8

4.1.1 PCB features ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 8

4.2.1 RF performance and considerations ......................................................................................................................................... 9

1 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. These evaluation boards offer easy-to-use mass-storage-device mode flash programmer, a
virtual serial port, and standard programming and run-control capabilities.

The MKW41Z is an ultra low-power, highly integrated single-chip device that enables Bluetooth low
energy (BLE), Generic FSK (at 250, 500 and 1000 kbps) or IEEE Standard 802.15.4 RF connectivity for
portable, extremely low-power embedded systems.

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The MKW41Z SoC integrates a radio transceiver operating in the 2.4 GHz to 2.4835GHz 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.

1.1 Audience

This guide is intended for system designers.

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