Do you have a bill of materials yet on what each road tester will recieve and what we will need to acquire separately?
Also, have they put together a documentation package and any training material for the board?
Are there any specific areas that Freescale would like us to investigate during this road test?
I am sure that there are some aspects of the board that they would like to have some very specific assessments on verses their competition. If they could share their interests, we could put more effort into answering their issues.
Are there any design information available, like architecture details, pin loading, clock stability, test software, test points, verification results or anything else that can help us get up to speed faster and do a better job of independent verification of the boards capabilities?
Those are generic connectors available from different connector suppliers (Samtec is just a suggestion) in Tin or Gold (much expensive) contacts versions.
Q2. Have they put together a documentation package and any training material for the board ?
A2. A Quick Start Guide and a Software Package including Drivers, Application Files and Project Examples will be available on Element14 to ease your starting with the board and its associated IDE tools.
Q3. Are there any specific areas that Freescale would like us to investigate during this road test ?
A3. According to me, roadtester should first evaluate how simple and fast it is to evaluate and start developing with Kinetis-L thanks to this board and its associated ecosystem. If you have an experience with our competitors tools like STM32F0DISCOVERY, NXP LPCXPRESSO, LPC1114FBD48/301,1LPC1114FBD48/301,1, may be few words to compare the solutions can be interesting to share with the community (we are not looking for a benchmark).
Then Kinetis-L microcontroller embedded in FRDM-KL25Z is targeting performance and low-power so may be you could confirm those abilities based on your own experience. Considering the agressive cost of this MCU family, similar to the 8/16-bit MCUs, it would be nice to get your opinion, if Kinetis-L could be considered as a replacement for 8/16-bit MCUs in each aspects (performance, power-consumption, features, integration, programming complexity, tools investment ...) ?
Q4. Are there any design information available, like architecture details, pin loading, clock stability, test software, test points, verification results or anything else that can help us get up to speed faster and do a better job of independent verification of the boards capabilities?
A4. I will check this point internaly
Hoping that I answered right to your questions
You should not delay in receiving your cards ... Enjoy
I confirm billabott answer, FREEDOM-KL25Z was the part-number provided by Freescale to register the pre-orders before official launch September 25th.
Final part-number will be FRDM-KL25Z.
May be you have already noticed that the FRDM-KL25Z has little differences with the FREEDOM-KL25Z : pcb color moved from white to black and some connectors were not populated but the features of the board stay UNCHANGED.
That's good. Thanks for the reply. But the question remains: will any of the preordered items come as advertised? I am betting that only the unpopulated black version is be distributed by Farnell/Newark/element14. Can you find out how many of the fully populated white version were manufactured and distributed. I will be so thrilled if my delivery includes white ones as long as they have no defects.
