FRDM-MCXW23 FRDM Development Board for MCX W23 Wireless MCUs

The FRDM-MCXW23 is a compact and scalable development board featuring the MCX W23 Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) 5.3 wireless MCU. The board is ideal for prototyping battery-powered, miniaturized devices within portable medical, home appliance and automation, and asset tracking applications. Equipped with an on-board accelerometer, temperature sensor, data flash and LED's, it operates from a 3V coincell with integrated buck DCDC or from the USB bus power. The board offers easy evaluation and rapid prototyping of the MCX W23 wireless MCU.

Supported Devices

Processors and Microcontrollers

MCX W Series Microcontrollers

• MCX-W23: MCX W23: Ultra-Low Power Bluetooth® Low Energy Solution With Arm® Cortex® M33 TrustZone® for IoT

LPC5500 Arm Cortex-M33

• LPC55S6x: High Efficiency Arm® Cortex®-M33-Based Microcontroller Family

Sensors

I3C/I²C Digital Temp. Sensors

• P3T1755DP: I3C/I²C-Bus ±0.5 °C Accurate Digital Temperature Sensor

Accelerometers

• FXLS8974CF: ±2g/±4g/±8g/±16g, Low-Power 12-Bit Digital IoT Accelerometer

Features

Microcontroller

• MCX W23 Arm™ Cortex™ -M33 core @32MHz, up to 1 MB Flash / 128 kB RAM application memory, Radio subsystem includes 256 kB flash and 88 kB RAM, and Q-SPI interface with XiP

Memory Expansion

• MX25R6435F 8 MB SPI Flash

Connectivity

• SPI/I2C/UART connector (mikroBUS™, Pmod™)
• Bluetooth® LE radio

Debug

• Type C USB MCU-Link
• MCU debugger header
• On-board MCU-Link debugger with CMSIS-DAP

Sensors

• P3T1755DP temperature sensor
• FXLS8974CF 3-axis accelerometer

Expansion Options

• Arduino® Header
• mikroBUS™
• Pmod™

Expansion Options

• Wake up button, User button, ISP button, RGB LED, RESET button

Supply Options

• USB bus powered
• CR2032 battery powered