Microcontrollers for intelligent motor control and ML applications

Mouser now supplies the MCX industrial and IoT MCUs from NXP Semiconductors. These new MCUs are high-performance, low-power microcontrollers with intelligent peripherals and accelerators for secure, intelligent motor control and machine-learning applications.

These new MCUs are powered by Arm Cortex-M33 CPUs with hardware-accelerated peripherals, communications, and signal processing for scalability and ease of development. The device's low-power cache boosts system performance, while the dual-bank flash and full ECC RAM safety support system enhances security. Select MCX N devices, including NXP's eIQ Neutron NPU for machine learning applications. The MCX N series also includes EdgeLock Secure Enclave and Core Profile, providing a secure-by-design approach for secure boot with an immutable root-of-trust and hardware-accelerated cryptography.

The MCX A series microcontrollers, also available from Mouser, enable smaller package and board designs with scalable device options, low power, and intelligent peripherals. Designed to support more GPIO pins for additional external connections and operating up to 96MHz with high levels of analogue integration, the series provides a wide range of peripherals, including timers delivering three complementary PWM pairs with deadband insertion (4Msps 12-bit ADC) together with hardware windowing and averaging features. The series provides critical functionality to system performance with an innovative power architecture designed to sustain high utilisation of I/O and power efficiency with a simple supply circuit in a smaller footprint.

NXP's FRDM-MCXN947 and FRDM-MCXA153 Fast Retrieval and Data Manipulator (FRDM) development boards are low-cost, compact, and scalable development platforms for rapid prototyping utilising the MCUXpresso development tools. The FRDM-MCXN947 features the MCX N series, addressing a wide range of applications featuring high levels of integration, on-chip accelerators, intelligent peripherals, and advanced security. The FRDM-MCXA153 features the MCX A series with scalable device options, low power, and intelligent peripherals.