Freescale FRDM-KL25Z & Kinetis Design Studio

RE: Freescale FRDM-KL25Z & Kinetis Design Studio

FreescaleTools_and_Software — Mon, 27 Apr 2015 15:50:57 GMT

Congratulation for this detailed Getting Started review of the FRDM-KL25Z board and our Kinetis Design Studio free IDE.
It seems like your MCU user experience helped to properly setup your board and create your first project.

If you are interested in evaluating the mbed online compiler, I have published on Design Center two tutorials using the FRDM-KL05Z, whose instructions also apply to FRDM-KL25Z just changing the I/O connections.

[FRDM-KL05Z - mbed] Chapter 1: Create your first mbed project !!

[FRDM-KL05Z - mbed] Chapter 1 bis: Create more mbed projects !!

The FRDM-K64F is another interesting board, currently the most powerful of the FRDM portfolio featuring the K64F (ARM Cortex-M4F core @120MHz with 1MB Flash / 256KB RAM and an Ethernet 10/100 controller).
bheemarao has posted several tutorials featuring KDS with or without PE and the new SDK low-level driver package (available only for the latest FRDM boards).

In general, the instructions of most of the tutorials published on design center can be easily adapted to every FRDM boards just using board schematics (available at www.freescale.com/FRDM-Kxxxx).

RE: Freescale FRDM-KL25Z & Kinetis Design Studio

shabaz — Sun, 26 Apr 2015 10:42:07 GMT

Hi Frederick!

Great article : ) They are way better value than Arduino - better performance, cheaper, tons of on-board sensors and I/O...

Freescale did a good job when they created these boards. Personally just wish they hadn't adopted the Arduino headers (crazy

spacing and three different sized headers), but I can see why they did it.

RE: Freescale FRDM-KL25Z & Kinetis Design Studio

mcb1 — Sun, 26 Apr 2015 08:48:00 GMT

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The FRDM range of boards are very good value.

I've been wanting to use them more in some applications but I got stuck on the learning a new IDE and the 'strange' conventions.

They are also supported in mbed http://developer.mbed.org/platforms/KL25Z/

Mark