Building on the strength of more than 20 years of industry-leading Kinetis and LPC portfolios, the MCX portfolio debuts a new generation of scalable, secure and developer-focused microcontrollers. The Arm® Cortex®-M based MCX portfolio is purpose-built on a common foundation of core technologies that support vast industrial and IoT use cases. These 32-bit, flash-based microcontrollers provide expanded product capabilities with memory scalability and a broad package offering. A simplified system design offers optimal enablement and intelligent peripherals for the secure connected edge including: machine learning, wireless, voice, motor control, analog and more. The portfolio also features the first instantiation of NXP’s new, specialized eIQ® Neutron neural processing unit (NPU) for accelerating inference at the edge, delivering up to 30x faster machine learning throughput compared to a CPU core alone.
The new MCX MCU portfolio features four new series of devices supported by NXP’s MCUXpresso Developer Experience to simplify product development.
Machine learning and run-time inference will be supported by NXP’s eIQ® ML software development environment. Developers can utilize the easy-to-use tools to train ML models targeting either the eIQ Neutron NPU or the CPU core and deploy them on the MCU.
MCX families that are built following NXP’s secure-by-design approach will offer a secure boot with an immutable root-of-trust, hardware-accelerated cryptography and, on select families, a built-in EdgeLock®Secure Enclave Core.
- MCX N Neural Series is designed for secure, intelligent applications, with families that include an integrated EdgeLock® Secure Enclave Core and dedicated eIQ Neutron NPU with a high-efficiency compute architecture for real-time inference.
- MCX A All-purpose series is optimized to provide critical functionality for a broad range of applications where cost constraints and time to market are key considerations.
- MCX W Wireless series offers 2.4 GHz narrowband connectivity for point to point and networked communications with enablement for Zigbee, Bluetooth LE, Thread and Matter protocols.
- MCX L Low Power series is designed for power-critical applications. With one of the industry’s lowest dynamic power consumption offerings, these devices can help extend battery life significantly compared to traditional MCUs.