NXP Semiconductors Kinetis K6x 32-bit Microcontrollers

NXP Semiconductors Kinetis K6x 32-bit Microcontrollers, based on the Arm® Cortex®-M4 core, are pin, peripheral, and software compatible with the Kinetis Kx MCU family. The K6x MCUs also integrate 10/100Mbps Ethernet with IEEE® 1588 Precision Time Protocol (PTP) Transceiver and USB 2.0 On-The-Go (OTG), including options for crystal-less device functionality. Devices range from 256KB to2 MB of flash, with 256KB of SRAM. Package options include BGA, LQFP, and WLCSP, which span from 100 to 256 pins. The Kinetis K6x MCU family is a scalable portfolio with various levels of integration, offering a rich suite of analog, communication, timing, and control peripherals to accommodate a wide range of requirements.

Features

Arm Cortex-M4 Core with supporting a broad range of processing bandwidth requirements while maintaining excellent cost-effectiveness, easy-to-use packages, and a wide range of memory densities
Digital signal processing capabilities with floating-point unit, offering outstanding computational power for control algorithms, sensor data processing, and audio processing, among others, while increasing math accuracy and reducing code size
Up to 32-channel DMA. Up to 16KB of cache. Crossbar switch
IEEE 1588 Ethernet MAC with hardware time stamping provides for precision clock synchronization for real-time industrial control
USB On-The-Go (Full- and High-Speed) with device charger detect
Hardware encryption coprocessor for secure data transfer and storage with faster (than software) implementations and minimal CPU loading

Hardware acceleration block helps to optimize the performance of network controllers providing TCP/IP, UDP, and ICMP protocol services
System security with hardware tamper detect
FlexBus external bus interface
Secure digital host controller supports SD, SDIO, MMC or CE-ATA cards for in-application software upgrades, media files, or adding Wi-Fi® support
NAND flash controller
DRAM controller
256KB to 1MB flash
Up to 256KB of SRAM
32KB to 512KB FlexMemory
Low-power operation with dynamic currents down to 250μA/MHz, state retention stop mode down to 5.8μA with 4.5μS wake-up time, and low power mode down to 340nA