Freescale: MCBTWRK60 Tower System For Freescale Kinetis Kxx Device Family from Keil

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Kit Overview

The Keil MCBTWRK60 Tower System allows you to generate and test application programs for the Freescale Kinetis Kxx device family. With this hands-on process, you can determine the hardware and software requirements for current and future product development. This TWR-K60N512TWR-K60N512 board is populated with the Freescale Kinetis MK60N512VMD100 microcontroller. The Freescale Semiconductor MK60N512VMD100 is a Core features - 32-bit ARM Cortex-M4 core (up to 180MHz CPU Clock).

Realize your design quickly with the Keil Starter Kit for the Freescale Kinetis K60 family of microcontrollers. This edition of the popular Tower System development kits for Kinetis comes complete with the Keil MDK tools for Freescale Kinetis Microcontrollers based on the ARM Cortex-M4 core. This kit speeds your time to market with packaged evaluation boards, software development tools, a debug interface cable, example projects and Freescale MQX RTOS sample applications.

The TWR-K60N512-KEILTWR-K60N512-KEIL can operate as a standalone evaluation board, and the ULINK-ME debug adapter allows you to program and debug embedded programs on the TWR-K60N512TWR-K60N512 through Serial Wire Debug (SWD) or a JTAG connection. The MCBTWRK60 is designed to be a very flexible evaluation board for the Freescale Kinetis family of microprocessors. The MCBTWRK60 evaluation board can be expanded to build hardware prototypes. The Freescale Kinetis K60 microcontroller (U1) provided with the MCBTWRK60 board is a high-end MK60N512VMD100 device with advanced capabilities.

The K60 MCU family includes IEEE 1588 Ethernet, full- and high-speed USB 2.0 On-The-Go with device charger detect capability, hardware encryption and tamper detection capabilities. Devices start from 256 KB of flash in 100LQFP packages extending up to 1 MB in a 256MAPBGA package with a rich suite of analog, communication, timing and control peripherals. High memory density K60 family devices include an optional single precision floating point unit, NAND flash controller and DRAM controller.

Ordering information:

Part Number	Description
MCBTWRK60-DEVMCBTWRK60-DEV	MCBTWRK60-DEV Tower System Based on K60N512
MCBTWRK60-UMEUMEMCBTWRK60-UMEUME	MCBTWRK60-UMEUME Tower System Based on K60N512 With ULINK-ME Debug Adapter

Key Applications: Target Applications of Kinetis K60 Family are Building automation controllers, Elevator control panels, Instrumentation clusters, Surveillance cameras.

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Development Tools

Software Development Tools:

Tool Type	Supplier	MPN	Supported Family	Description
IDE	Freescale	CodeWarrior	All Freescale MCU's	Freescale's software and development solutions take you beyond the silicon, helping to bring your embedded applications to life. Learn More
IDE	ARM Keil	MDK ARM	ARM Cortex M/R	The MDK-ARM (Microcontroller Development Kit) is the complete software development environment for ARM7, ARM9, Cortex-M, and Cortex-R4 processor-based devices. Learn More
RTOS	Freescale	MQX	ColdFire / HC08 / HC12 / ARM / S08 / RS08 / PowerPC	The Freescale MQX Real-Time Operating System (RTOS) provides real-time performance within a small, configurable footprint. This RTOS is designed to allow you to configure and balance code size with performance requirements. Learn More
RTOS	Micrium	uC/OS III	ColdFire / HC08 / HC12 / ARM / S08 / RS08 / PowerPC	μC/OS-III is Micrium’s newest RTOS, designed for developers who need to save time on their current and next embedded sytem projects. Using a commercial real-time kernel such as μC/OS-III provides a solid foundation and framework to the design engineer dealing with the growing complexity of embedded designs. Learn More
RTOS	Segger	embOS	ColdFire / HC08 / HC12 / ARM / S08 / RS08	SEGGER embOS (Real Time Operating System) follows strict, yet efficient coding and documentation standards. embOS is a priority-controlled real time operating system, designed to be used as foundation for the development of embedded real-time applications. Learn More

Tool Type	Supplier	MPN	Supported Family	Description
Debuggers, Emulators & JTAG Tools	Freescale	U-MULTILINKU-MULTILINK	HC08 / HCS12 / S08 / RS08 / Coldfire / Kinetis	P&E USB Multilink Universal debug and programming interface for HCS08, HC(S)12(X), ColdFire, Qorivva MPC55xx/56xx, and Kinetis
Debuggers, Emulators & JTAG Tools	ARM	ULINK2ULINK2	ARM Cortex M	USB DEBUG
Debuggers, Emulators & JTAG Tools	ARM	ULINKProULINKPro	ARM Cortex M	High-Speed Debug and Trace Unit

Technical Documents

Learning Center

Type	Description
User Guide	Freescale: Quick Start Guide For TWR-K60N512-KEIL Tower Module
Product Brief	Freescale: Product Brief for Freescale Tower System Modular development platform
Product Brief	Freescale: Tower System TWR-K53N512 Fact Sheet
Solution Guide	Freescale: Solutions For Tower System
Tutorials	Freescale: Kinetis ARM Cortex M4-MCUs Overview
Tutorials	Freescale: Kinetis Training on Arrowfest 2011
Revision Note	Freescale: Hardware Errata and Changes For TWR-K60N512 Tower Module
User Manual	Freescale: User's Manual For TWR-K60N512 Tower Module (Rev 1.1)

Design Elements

Type	Description
Layout	Freescale: TWR-K60N512-KEIL Tower System Gerber File
Application Library	Freescale: C/C++ Header Files For Kinetis MCU

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Kit Features

The connectors on the MCBTWRK60 evaluation board provide easy access to many of the on-chip peripherals:

USB 2.0 Full Speed Interface
- Standard USB connectors for USB Device, USB-OTG, USB Host and UART via USB on the MCBTWRK60 board for applications requiring USB communications.
Serial Port
- A standard DB9 connector on the Serial board for Kinetis's serial port provides RS232 and RS485 connectivity.
100/10M Ethernet Port
- A standard RJ45 connector on the MCBTWRK60 Serial board connects to an on-board Ethernet transceiver for applications requiring Ethernet communications.
CAN Interface
- A 3-pin header for applications requiring CAN communications on the MCBTWRK60 Serial board.
Accelerometer
- A 3-axis accelerometer for detecting and measuring motion in 3 dimensions on the MCBTWRK60 Serial board.
Touch Interface
- Four touch pads on the TWR-K60N512TWR-K60N512 board connected to the Touch Sensing Input module in the MCU allow them to be used as push buttons in your application.
SD Card Connector
- A SD Card connector for developing applications requiring access to SD Cards.
Analog Voltage Control for ADC Input
- An adjustable analog voltage source is on the TWR-K60N512TWR-K60N512 board for testing the Analog to Digital output feature of the Kinetis device. A configuration jumper enables and disables this feature.
JTAG and Cortex/ETM Download and Debug
- The TWR-K60N512TWR-K60N512 board incorporates a Cortex Debug + ETM interface. When coupled with the ULINK2 USB-JTAG adapter, the Serial Wire JTAG interface allows flash programming and debugging. With the ULINKPro adapter, the Cortex Debug/ETM interface allows flash programming and instruction trace debugging.

Kit Contents

The Keil MCBTWRK60 Tower System includes:

The TWR-K60N512TWR-K60N512 Module.
The TWR-SERTWR-SER Serial Module.
The Primary and Secondary TWR-ELEVTWR-ELEV Elevator Modules.
A µVision IDE Quick Start Guide.
An ARM Development Tools Overview