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Freedom Development Board for MCR20A Wireless Transceiver

FRDM-CR20A
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The Freedom development board platform supports the MCR20A 2.4GHZ wireless transceiver. The FRDM-CR20A evaluation board is a small, low-power, cost-effective reference design for the MCR20A transceiver in a shield form factor, compatible with existing Freedom development platforms, FRDM-K64F and FRDM-KL46Z.

Note: JN5189/88T is preferred for any new design. No new software releases planned

Product Details

Features

Microcontroller

    MCR20AVHM

  • low-power
  • high-performance 2.4 GHz IEEE 802.15.4 compliant transceiver

Connectivity

  • PCB inverted F-type antenna and SMA RF port
  • Arduino® compatible

Power Management

  • Programmable output power -32 dBm to +8 dBm at the SMA connector, no trap
  • Receiver sensitivity: –102 dBm, typical

Components

  • Minimum number of matching components and external balun
  • 1 RGB LED indicator
  • 2 pushbutton switches

Support

  • Supports Thread Networking Protocols, SMAC, and ZigBee® stacks
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