NXP Kinetis KE1xZ64/32 5V robust MCUs with Touch and CAN

The Kinetis E Portfolio is a 5V MCU family with MCUs ranging from 8KB up to 512KB Flash, M0+ or M4 cores, and peripherals as CAN, Touch, and ECC to address a variety of applications.

The KE1xZ64 MCUs are based on Cortex-M0+, with up to 48 MHz, up to 64 KB flash and 8 KB RAM with a complete set of analog/digital features, KE1xZ64 extends Kinetis E family with smaller footprint options along with TSI and CAN.

• KE14Z: broad offering with mixed-signal integration, ADC, ACMP, Timers, PDB
• KE15Z: expansion from KE14Z, with addition of TSI
• KE16Z: expanding from KE15Z, with addition of CAN

Key features

• Robust for harsh EMC environment
• Capacitive Touch Sensing solution that provides a compelling user experience
• Rich feature integration for industrial and motor control
• Scalable Portfolio

Additional features

Robust for harsh EMC environment

With 2.7-5.5 V supply and focus on exceptional EMC/ESD robustness, Kinetis E family is well suited to a wide range of applications in electrical harsh environments.

Robust TSI

TSI solution in Kinetis E series supports both self-cap and mutual-cap mode, flexibility for up to 25 touch sensing channels. Its auto tuning provides strong liquid tolerance for User Interface designs with a high level of stability and accuracy.

Rich Integration

KE1xZ64 has rich interfaces integrated

• CAN bus
• Flexible PWM and timers
• 1Msps 12-bit ADC, 1Msps
• ACMP

 
KE1xZ64 product family is based on CM0+ core running at 48 MHz, offering multiple memory options: 64KB/8KB or 32KB/4KB Flash/SRAM with lower cost. It expands the KE1xZ series down to 64KB and 32KB flash options, 8KB and 4KB SRAM options, leading to optimized BOM cost.

Key features

CM0+ core with up to 64KB/8KB memory, max 48MHZ

Robust TSI

• Support both self-cap and mutual-cap mode
• 25ch, support up to 36 touch pads
• Auto tuning in the performance
• High performance in the liquid tolerance

CAN bus for industrial control

Rich features for motor control

• Flexible PWM and timers
• 12-bit ADC, 1Msps
• ACMP

Ease of Use

• MCUXpresso with GUI touch config tool and SDK
• NXP Touch Library

Low BOM Cost

• Optimized memory and feature set

Applications

• Home Appliance
• A/C, washer, MWO, induction cooker etc.
• UI, main board control (touch, non-touch)
• Motor and Power Control
• Motor, inverter and fan control
• Low power UPS communication and UI control
• Industrial Control
• Factory automation, HMI control, alarm monitor
• Elevator external calling board
• Circuit breaker, MCCB/ACB
• General 5V Robust Use Cases

Available tools 

FRDM-KE16Z Freedom Development Board

The FRDM-KE16Z Freedom Board is designed to work in standalone mode or as the main board of FRDM-TOUCH. This Freedom board is compatible with DC 5v and 3.3v power supply and features a KE16Z. The onboard interfaces include an RGB LED, a 6-axis digital sensor, a 3-axis digital angular rate gyroscope, an ambient light sensor, CAN control interface and capacitive touch pad.

• MKE16Z64VLF4 MCU (Arm® Cortex® CM0+ 48LQFP package)
• I/O headers for easy access to MCU I/O pins
• Compatible with FRDM-TOUCH, FRDM-MC-LVBLDC, and Arduino™ boards
• Onboard debug circuit: K20DX128VFM5 (OpenSDA) with a virtual serial port
• NXP inertial sensor, FXOS8700CQ
• Reset push button, two user buttons and one RGB LED
• Touch electrodes in self-capacitive mode
• CAN communication interface

FRDM-TOUCH

The FRDM-TOUCH is a Touch Module for FRDM-KE15Z and FRDM-KE16Z with Capacitive Touch sliders. This board can connect FRDM-KE15Z/ and FRDM-KE16Z and control the on-board RBG LED by using keys, slider and rotary touches.

• Touch Module for FRDM-KE15Z and FRDM-KE16Z
• Easy and simple way to evaluate the touch pad, slide and wheel.
• Including self-cap and mutual-cap modes

Software Enablement

The FRDM-K16Z is enabled using NXP MCUXpresso SDK, MCUXpresso Config Tools, MCUXpresso IDE and a large software partner ecosystem.

Integrated development environments

• IAR Embedded Workbench®,  iar.com/kinetis
• Arm Keil® Microcontroller Development Kit, keil.com/nxp
• NXP MCUXpresso, nxp.com/mcuxpresso
• An open-source software development kit (SDK)
• An easy-to-use integrated development environment (IDE)
• A comprehensive suite of system configuration tools, including pins, clocks, SDK builder and more
• Broad Arm ecosystem support through NXP Connect partners

Online enablement with Arm mbed™ development platform

• Rapid and easy Kinetis MCU prototyping and development
• Online mbed SDK, developer community
• Free software libraries

Boot-loader

• Common boot-loader for all Kinetis MCUs
• In-system Flash programming over a serial connection: erase, program, verify
• ROM- or Flash-based boot-loader with open-source software and host-side programming utilities