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FRDM-KE04Z

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The FRDM-KE04Z is an ultra-low-cost development platform for Kinetis® KE04 MCUs built on Arm® Cortex®-M0+ processor with 8 KB Flash.

  • Features include easy access to MCU I/O, battery-ready, a standards-based form factor with expansion board options and a built-in debug interface for flash programming and run-control
  • The FRDM-KE04Z is supported by a range of NXP and third-party development software

Product Details

Supported Devices

Processors and Microcontrollers

KE Series Arm Cortex-M4/M0+

  • KE04: Kinetis® KE04-48 MHz, Mainstream Microcontrollers (MCUs) based on Arm® Cortex®-M0+ Core

Features

Microcontroller

    MKE04Z8VFK4 MCU

  • 48 MHz
  • 8 KB Flash
  • 1 KB SRAM
  • 24 QFN

Connectivity

  • Easy access to MCU I/O
  • IrDA transmitter and receiver
  • Form factor compatible with Arduino® Rev3 pin layout

Power Management

  • Flexible power supply options — USB, external source

Debug

    OpenSDA debug interface

  • Mass storage device flash programming interface (default) — no tool installation required to evaluate demo apps
  • P&E debug interface provides run-control debugging and compatibility with IDE tools
  • CMSIS-DAP interface: new Arm standard for embedded debug interface

Sensors

  • Capacitive touch slider, MMA8451Q accelerometer

User Components

  • Tri-color LED

Buy Options

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  • FRDM-KE04Z
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  • Freedom Development Board for Kinetis KE04 (8KB Flash) MCUs.

  • $17.25 USD
  • For a quantity of 1
    • Availability: Pending Stock
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Many applications or products need to upgrade firmware in the field to fix some bugs found, or sometimes to improve performance. Most of them do not use the dedicated debug interface but only use the communication interfaces, such as UART, USB, IIC, and so on. In this case, a serial bootloader is required to upgrade firmware via one of the communication interfaces without a debugger or dedicated program tools. 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