Freescale KINETIS expert online next monday

Enclosed a nice video showing the Kinetis Tower board out of the box demonstration.

You will find these Tower Kinetis development boards on Farnell store ( http://uk.farnell.com/jsp/search/productListing.jsp?SKUS=1843924,1843925,1843926,1843927)

And you can keep on asking questions to Gordon.

Peggy

if anyone is interested, check on our new Kinetis ARM M4 based MCUs controlling a BLDC motor and also acting as a network bridge running a webserver.  The video is on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/freescale#p/u/2/FogsMTp1-Mc

Cheers,
Gordon

Hi Alistair,

Snow isn't so bad in west of scotland so far.  I am around in office all week.

Cheers,
Grdon

Hey Gordon, it snowed bad up there?

Are you on the site all day Monday?

Following up on a recent post Farnell now have in stock the first quantities of Kinetis Tower Systems for rapid product evaluation and prototyping. The orderable part numbers are:

- TWR-K40X256-KIT

- TWR-K60N512-KIT

For those wanting to learn a bit more about the Kinetis family you can sign up for an short training presentation on Freescale:

http://www.freescale.com/webapp/sps/site/training_information.jsp?code=WBNR_KINETIS_ARMCORTEX&tid=mKhp

Hi Norman,

We will have samples in Q1 2011of the 144LQFP. How much Flash memory are you looking to use? I can provide a Part Number for sample orders.  Orders can then be loaded via any authorized distributor or via Freescale's on-line tool.

Best Regards,
Gordon

Hi Gordon

I've run out of Flash (and MIPs) on the V1 cores, but would like to stay with an embedded processor and it has to be Freescale, so Kinetis has arrived just in time.  I want to get going on a new project with it ASAP.  I am however extremely reluctant to go BGA and so would like to use 144QFP.  Do you know when samples of the K40 will be available in QFP? 

Best regards, Norman

In preparation for Gordon Padkin's Q and A on Monday those interested in Kinetis should take a look at Freescale's very thorough webpage on the product line, including videos, portfolio part comparisons and info on energy efficiency. The link is here.

Well there are several improvements and new features that Kinetis brings to market.

Firstly as this family is based on a 90nm Thin Film Storage manufacturing process which can reduced the dynamic run current consumption by up to as much as 1/3 or previous manufacturing technologies.  the new Kinetis MCU family consumes as little as 200uA/MHz in run mode with clocks to CPU and all peripherals active.  In addition with the new features of the ARM Cortex M4 Core, specifically the MAC unit, SIMD unit and enhanced DSP instructions, help reduce further the number of cycles needed to process complex algorithms futher reducing the run current consumption.

The other major benefit of the Kinetis range is the range of 10 flexible modes of operation, enabling designs to select the most appropriate mode to optimize the power consumption at any given moment.  The modes of operation are the standard Run, Wait & Stop modes. Plus you have the ability to scale the CPU and peripheral clocks down to 2MHz and enter into Very Low Power Run (VLPR) & Wait Modes (VLPW) and as an extension to these modes there is a Very Low Power Stop Mode.  Then with the additional of the NEW Low Leakage Wake-up Unit LLWU there are a range of modes where by the logic is completely shut down to further reduce leakage and overall power consumption. There are Low Leakage Stop (LLS) & Very Low Leakage Stop 1, 2 & 3 (VLLS1, VLLS2, VLL3). Each offering a different levels of functionality. In the lowest power mode, VLLS3 the Kinetis family will consume as little of 500nA.  The family also supports an extremely fast wake up time of 4uS.

Other features of the Kinetis family include

     - Clock gating, to turn of clocks to unused moduels.

     - Indepent &  secure RTC with a dedicated 32KHz OSC and separate power system

     - Low Voltage Detect

Hope this answers questions.

Best Regards,

Gordon

Hi Gordon, Can you explain more about the Low Power capabilities of this new MCU range and why it is suitable for use in my portable application? Thank you !