Wireless MCU for Matter, industrial automation and smart applications

Mouser Electronics, Inc. now ships the RW612 wireless MCU from NXP Semiconductors. It is a highly integrated, highly secure wireless MCU for smart home, gaming, industrial automation and smart accessory applications.

The wireless MCU is a Matter-compatible device, allowing broader compatibility and connectivity with IoT devices and protocols sharing a single access point. Matter is a universal software layer and a new connectivity standard for IoT devices over Wi-Fi or Matter over Thread, offering a common, interoperable application layer across ecosystems and products. The RW612 MCU combines Wi-Fi 6 and BLE 5.4 radios supporting a long-range, high-speed, 2Mbit/s data rate with extended advertising, plus 802.15.4 support for tri-radio integration with the Thread mesh networking protocol and Zigbee protocol. The company is now also shipping the RW610, which does not include 802.15.4 support.

The MCU is powered by a 260MHz Arm Cortex-M33 core with Trustzone-M, 1.2MB of on-chip SRAM, and a quad SPI interface with a highly secure, on-the-fly decryption engine for secure external flash access in a space and cost-efficient wireless MCU needing only a single 3.3V power supply. The integrated EdgeLock Secure Enclave (Core Profile) provides secure boot, debug, firmware updates, life cycle management, hardware cryptography and a physically unclonable function (PUF) for secure key management. The device is PSA Certified Level 3 and SESIP Assurance Level 3.

The company also offers the FRDM-RW612 development board, built on the FRDM platform, to accelerate rapid prototyping and development with the RW612 family of MCUs. The FRDM-RW612 delivers easy access to MCU I/Os, peripherals, integrated serial interfaces, and external flash memory and includes an onboard MCU-Link debugger. Additional resources like NXP's Expansion Board Hub and Application Code Hub, providing software examples, are accessible through the MCUXpresso Developer Experience.