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NXP MCX W Series of Wireless Microcontrollers (MCUs)

Bluetooth LE, Zigbee, and Matter over Thread multiprotocol MCUs

The MCX W series, based on the Arm® Cortex®-M33, offers a unified range of pin-compatible multiprotocol wireless MCUs for 

MCX W enables interoperable and innovative smart home devices, building automation sensors and controls and smart energy products. The MCX W series is supported by the MCUXpresso Developer Experience.

Industry’s first wireless MCU to support the new Bluetooth® Channel Sounding standard

The MCX W series includes the MCX W72x, the industry’s first wireless MCU to support the new Bluetooth® Channel Sounding standard, which improves the accuracy and security of distance measurement compared to traditional Bluetooth technology. This is supported by NXP’s Localization Compute Engine (LCE) to reduce latency. Along with NXP’s Trimension® portfolio of ultra-wideband (UWB) secure radar and fine ranging products, the MCX W evolves ambient computing into a broad range applications.

 

Key Features

  • 96 MHz Arm® Cortex®-M33
    • Localization Compute Engine
  • Radio subsystem with dedicated core, flash, and RAM
    • Support for Matter, Thread, Zigbee, and Bluetooth® Low Energy with channel sounding
  • 1 MB flash and 128 KB RAM (MCX W71x)
    • Additional 256 KB flash and 88 KB RAM for radio subsystem
  • 2 MB flash and 256 KB RAM (MCX W72x)
    • Additional 512 KB flash and 170 KB RAM for radio subsystem
  • Ultra-low power architecture
  • Edgelock® Secure Enclave Core Profile with Edgelock 2GO support
  • Optional CAN FD interface
  • -40 to 125° C operating temperature

Target Applications

  • Smart sensors
  • Connected window coverings
  • Smart thermostats
  • Connected small appliances
  • Home and building control devices
  • Security panels
  • Power and energy
  • E-bikes

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The MCX W series is supported by the MCUXpresso Developer Experience.

The MCUXpresso Developer Experience to optimize, ease and help accelerate embedded system development. The MCUXpresso suite includes tools for simple device configuration and secure programming. Developers can choose to work with multiple IDEs including MCUXpresso for VS Code, MCUXpresso IDE, or IAR. NXP provides wireless stacks, drivers and middleware with extensive examples via the MCUXpresso SDK and opensource Github repos, further complemented by a wide range of compatible middleware from NXP’s partner ecosystem, allowing rapid development of a broad range of end applications.

 

Flexible Hardware Development Platforms
The FRDM-MCXW71 is a compact and scalable development board for rapid prototyping of the MCX W71 wireless MCU. It offers easy evaluation of the MCX W71's multiprotocol wireless support for Bluetooth LE, Zigbee, Thread and Matter. The board includes an on-board MCU-Link debugger, industry standard headers for easy access to the MCU’s I/Os, an accelerometer, a light sensor and external SPI flash memory. Multiple add-on boards are available through NXP's  Expansion Board Hub  while the  Application Code Hub  provides ready to use software examples as part of the  MCUXpresso Developer Experience.