StarterTRAK is a low-cost development kit based on Kinetis EA series MCUs for Industrial and Automotive applications. StarterTRAK kits enable rapid prototyping and tool reuse.

The TRK-KEA8 development platform is built on Kinetis EA series 32-bit ARM®-based MCUs and include 8KB Flash and target low-cost, high-performance Industrial applications including lighting, power supply, and motor control, as well as low-end automotive body applications. These scalable and low-power devices are supported by a broad enablement ecosystem that includes software drivers, operating systems, example codes and application notes to help you quickly implement your designs.

The TRK-KEA features either one of the KEA128, KEA64 or KEA8 MCUs, depending on the board version. The KEA family is aimed at Industrial applications, such as 3-phase sensorless BLDC motor control, as well as Automotive body electronic applications.  Kinetis EA series MCUs integrate an ARM® Cortex®-M0 core, a CAN module3, a UART module with LIN capabilities, a pulse width timer (PWT) and a keyboard interrupt module (KBI). All these peripherals together with standard serial communication protocols such as I2C and SPI offer flexibility for a width variety of applications.

The TRK-KEA board includes an onboard OpenSDA programmer and debugger, LIN physical transceiver, CAN physical transceiver, a light sensor, four LEDs and two pushbuttons for user interface.

Key Applications: Industrial applications including LED lighting, power supply, motor control, and machine control.  Automotive applications including Motorcycle Engine Control Unit (ECU) and Small Engine Control, Passive Entry Push Start, Ambient Lighting Control, Powertrain companion chip, Generic sensor node.

NXP Enablement Tools

• Processor Expert -- Processor Expert Software is a development system to create, configure, optimize, migrate, and deliver software components that generate source code for NXP silicon. It is available as part of the CodeWarrior tool suite or as an Eclipse-based plug-in feature for installation into an independent Eclipse environment.

• Motor Control Application Tuning (MCAT) tool -- The Motor Control Application Tuning (MCAT) Tool is a HMTL-based, user-friendly graphical plug-in tool for  FreeMASTER. This tool is intended for the development of PMSM FOC and sensorless BLDC motor control applications, real-time control structure parameter tuning, and will aid motor control users in adapting motor control solutions to their motors without detailed knowledge of PI controller constant calculations.

• FreeMASTER – FreeMASTER a debugging interface based on HTML that enables debugging in an emulation environment, saving time and cost versus manufacturing a prototype. FreeMASTER supports both cooperative and non-intrusive monitoring of variables on a running system. Display multiple variables changing over time on an oscilloscope-like display, or view the data in text form.