Freescale Kinetis¶

platform = freescalekinetis

Freescale Kinetis Microcontrollers is family of multiple hardware- and software-compatible ARM Cortex-M0+, Cortex-M4 and Cortex-M7-based MCU series. Kinetis MCUs offer exceptional low-power performance, scalability and feature integration.

For more detailed information please visit vendor site.

Examples ¶

Examples are listed from Freescale Kinetis development platform repository:

Debugging ¶

PIO Unified Debugger - “1-click” solution for debugging with a zero configuration.

Debug Tools ¶

Supported debugging tools are listed in “Debug” column. For more detailed information, please scroll table by horizontal. You can switch between debugging Tools & Debug Probes using debug_tool options.

Warning

You will need to install debug tool drivers depending on your system. Please click on compatible debug tool below for the further instructions.

On-Board Debug Tools ¶

Boards listed below have on-board debug tool and ARE READY for debugging! You do not need to use/buy external debug tool.

ID	Name	Debug	MCU	Frequency	Flash	RAM
`IBMEthernetKit`	Ethernet IoT Starter Kit	CMSIS-DAP (on-board), J-LINK	MK64FN1M0VLL12	120MHz	1MB	256KB
`frdm_k20d50m`	Freescale Kinetis FRDM-K20D50M	CMSIS-DAP (on-board), J-LINK	MK20DX128VLH5	48MHz	128KB	16KB
`frdm_k22f`	Freescale Kinetis FRDM-K22F	CMSIS-DAP (on-board), J-LINK	MK22FN512VLH12	120MHz	512KB	128KB
`frdm_k64f`	Freescale Kinetis FRDM-K64F	CMSIS-DAP (on-board), J-LINK	MK64FN1M0VLL12	120MHz	1MB	256KB
`frdm_k66f`	Freescale Kinetis FRDM-K66F	CMSIS-DAP (on-board), J-LINK	MK66FN2M0VMD18	180MHz	2MB	256KB
`frdm_kl05z`	Freescale Kinetis FRDM-KL05Z	CMSIS-DAP (on-board), J-LINK	MKL05Z32VFM4	48MHz	32KB	4KB
`frdm_kl25z`	Freescale Kinetis FRDM-KL25Z	CMSIS-DAP (on-board), Black Magic Probe, J-LINK	MKL25Z128VLK4	48MHz	128KB	16KB
`frdm_kl27z`	Freescale Kinetis FRDM-KL27Z	CMSIS-DAP (on-board), Black Magic Probe, J-LINK	MKL27Z64VLH4	48MHz	64KB	16KB
`frdm_kl43z`	Freescale Kinetis FRDM-KL43Z	CMSIS-DAP (on-board), J-LINK	MKL43Z256VLH4	48MHz	256KB	32KB
`frdm_kl46z`	Freescale Kinetis FRDM-KL46Z	CMSIS-DAP (on-board), J-LINK	MKL46Z256VLL4	48MHz	256KB	32KB
`frdm_kw41z`	Freescale Kinetis FRDM-KW41Z	CMSIS-DAP (on-board), J-LINK	MKW41Z512VHT4	48MHz	512KB	128KB

External Debug Tools ¶

Boards listed below are compatible with PIO Unified Debugger but DEPEND ON external debug tool. See “Debug” column for compatible debug tools.

ID	Name	Debug	MCU	Frequency	Flash	RAM
`hexiwear`	Hexiwear	CMSIS-DAP, J-LINK	MK64FN1M0VDC12	120MHz	1MB	256KB

Stable and upstream versions ¶

You can switch between stable releases of Freescale Kinetis development platform and the latest upstream version using platform option in Project Configuration File platformio.ini as described below.

Stable¶

; Latest stable version
[env:latest_stable]
platform = freescalekinetis
board = ...

; Custom stable version
[env:custom_stable]
platform = freescalekinetis@x.y.z
board = ...

Upstream¶

[env:upstream_develop]
platform = https://github.com/platformio/platform-freescalekinetis.git
board = ...

Packages ¶

Name	Description
framework-mbed	mbed Framework
tool-jlink	SEGGER J-Link Software and Documentation Pack
tool-pyocd	Open source python library for programming and debugging ARM Cortex-M microcontrollers using CMSIS-DAP
toolchain-gccarmnoneeabi	gcc-arm-embedded

Warning

Linux Users:

Install “udev” rules 99-platformio-udev.rules

Raspberry Pi users, please read this article Enable serial port on Raspberry Pi.

Windows Users:

Please check that you have a correctly installed USB driver from board manufacturer

Frameworks ¶

Name	Description
mbed	The mbed framework The mbed SDK has been designed to provide enough hardware abstraction to be intuitive and concise, yet powerful enough to build complex projects. It is built on the low-level ARM CMSIS APIs, allowing you to code down to the metal if needed. In addition to RTOS, USB and Networking libraries, a cookbook of hundreds of reusable peripheral and module libraries have been built on top of the SDK by the mbed Developer Community.

Name

Description

mbed

The mbed framework The mbed SDK has been designed to provide enough hardware abstraction to be intuitive and concise, yet powerful enough to build complex projects. It is built on the low-level ARM CMSIS APIs, allowing you to code down to the metal if needed. In addition to RTOS, USB and Networking libraries, a cookbook of hundreds of reusable peripheral and module libraries have been built on top of the SDK by the mbed Developer Community.

Boards ¶

Note

You can list pre-configured boards by platformio boards command or PlatformIO Boards Explorer
For more detailed board information please scroll tables below by horizontal.

Freescale¶

ID	Name	Debug	MCU	Frequency	Flash	RAM
`IBMEthernetKit`	Ethernet IoT Starter Kit	Yes	MK64FN1M0VLL12	120MHz	1MB	256KB
`frdm_k20d50m`	Freescale Kinetis FRDM-K20D50M	Yes	MK20DX128VLH5	48MHz	128KB	16KB
`frdm_k22f`	Freescale Kinetis FRDM-K22F	Yes	MK22FN512VLH12	120MHz	512KB	128KB
`frdm_k64f`	Freescale Kinetis FRDM-K64F	Yes	MK64FN1M0VLL12	120MHz	1MB	256KB
`frdm_k66f`	Freescale Kinetis FRDM-K66F	Yes	MK66FN2M0VMD18	180MHz	2MB	256KB
`frdm_kl05z`	Freescale Kinetis FRDM-KL05Z	Yes	MKL05Z32VFM4	48MHz	32KB	4KB
`frdm_kl25z`	Freescale Kinetis FRDM-KL25Z	Yes	MKL25Z128VLK4	48MHz	128KB	16KB
`frdm_kl27z`	Freescale Kinetis FRDM-KL27Z	Yes	MKL27Z64VLH4	48MHz	64KB	16KB
`frdm_kl43z`	Freescale Kinetis FRDM-KL43Z	Yes	MKL43Z256VLH4	48MHz	256KB	32KB
`frdm_kl46z`	Freescale Kinetis FRDM-KL46Z	Yes	MKL46Z256VLL4	48MHz	256KB	32KB
`frdm_kw41z`	Freescale Kinetis FRDM-KW41Z	Yes	MKW41Z512VHT4	48MHz	512KB	128KB

MikroElektronika¶

ID	Name	Debug	MCU	Frequency	Flash	RAM
`hexiwear`	Hexiwear	Yes	MK64FN1M0VDC12	120MHz	1MB	256KB