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New Product Release - MCX N53, N52 & N24: High-Performance Cortex-M33 MCUs, with on-chip accelerators and advanced security.

2026-02-18T13:19:34Z

MCX N53, N52 & N24: High-Performance Cortex-M33 MCUs, with on-chip accelerators and advanced security. Overview and Features MCX N53, N52 & N24 Overview The MCX N53, N52 and N24 include up to two high-performance Arm® Corte...(read more)

Testing out Zephyr RTOS on a NXP LPCXpresso55S69 Development Board (LPC55S69-EVK)

2025-07-06T21:52:00Z

Table of Contents Introduction Key concepts about the Zephyr RTOS ecosystem Installing Zephyr-RTOS on your computer Blinky and beyond (looking at some of the samples provided) Let's start with Blinky Having a play with PWM Interfacing with I2C ...(read more)

Your Knowledge of NXP’s FRDM Development Board Ecosystem Could Score You a Handheld O-Scope

2025-06-26T06:43:37Z

(Image credit: NXP) Anyone who has ever used a microcontroller for project builds has probably come across development boards that promise speed, flexibility and low power but have come up short, especially if they need to scale. NXP’s FRDM De...(read more)

Share your FreeMASTER dashboard designs, get a board: #FreeMASTERdash

2020-05-04T15:55:38Z

Calling all freemaster fans! Are you an experienced FreeMASTER user (who has already created custom dashboards) or an HTML/Javascript coder (who is new to this great tool and keen to share your creative ideas)? We are giving away 50 evaluation boards...(read more)

True Transistor/Memory Hyrbids Could Be The Future Of Microprocessors

2020-02-04T12:47:19Z

As our ability to shrink the size of transistors begins approaching the atomic wall, researchers have had to shift more of their focus on making chips more efficient in both power consumption, and the speed at which the chips can process data. One wa...(read more)

NFC Software Integration II: How to integrate NFC controllers in Linux

2020-01-28T09:08:02Z

In the previous blog of September 2019, we covered the software integration of NFC frontends in Linux. We discussed about how NFC frontend offers a host interface and a contactless interface. In this blog we talk about the software integration o...(read more)

Ways of Getting Support from NXP Engineers When Using NXP Microcontrollers/Processors

2019-10-14T06:08:37Z

Microcontrollers can be complicated, to be honest, understanding how a microcontroller works is critical to a perfect system level design. In addition, understanding the IPs and how a microcontroller can best fit into your application in order to max...(read more)

Choosing the right MCU or MPU for your design

2018-06-20T19:12:16Z

Microcontrollers (MCUs) and Microprocessors (MPUs) are nowadays vital for a wide range of industrial and automotive applications: from motor control to infotainment systems and auto body control solutions. Therefore, selecting the right MCU or MPU fo...(read more)

New riotboard.org website released

2015-06-16T09:05:54Z

It's Live!The brand new www.riotboard.org website has been released. In this new comprehensive website, you'll find much more information on your precious development board: - Home: general overview- Hardware: everything about technical fea...(read more)

FTF Austin, TX (22-25 June)

2015-06-08T09:55:04Z

Freescale Technology ForumJune 22 - 25, Austin, TX With four days, eight tracks and over 350+ hours of sessions, attend FTF to keep your skills and tech knowledge current Nearly 200 product and solution experts across 8 industry tracks 350+...(read more)

[Video] Securing the Internet of Things

2015-06-08T09:22:58Z

As the Internet of Things gains momentum, the future will rely on a secure, embedded network. With over 50 years of security expertise, Freescale is the only supplier providing secure solutions from the end node, to the network, to the cloud. Wa...(read more)

Convince an entire generation of school children that STEM is cool

2015-03-30T09:07:44Z

How do you convince an entire generation of school children that STEM is cool? You let them experiment. Along with 25 other tech companies, including ARM, Samsung, and Microsoft, Freescale is working with the BBC to provide kids across the UK wi...(read more)

Sensor Fusion

2015-03-18T17:03:42Z

Interested to understand how a self-driving car work? It's called Sensor Fusion. There's more information here Here's how the sensors feed the brain of the car to keep you and your family safe.S32V234 Sensor Fusion Demo|Freescale(read more)

Internet of Tomorrow Tour truck at SXSW (Austin, TX)

2015-03-18T16:56:58Z

Freescale's John Dixon (Director, Corporate Marketing) shares a few of the 120 IoT demos on board our triple-decker Internet of Tomorrow Tour truck at SXSW Interactive this week. Watch the interview (video - 3 mn 40s) on my Fox Austin web site :...(read more)

Tower getting higher and higher!

2011-05-16T15:17:56Z

The Freescale Tower System has won the 21st Annual EDN Innovation Award in the “Development Kits, Reference Designs, and Single-Board Computers” category. The Freescale Tower System is a development platform that enables users to test-dri...(read more)