FRDM Development Board for MCX A175, A176, A185, A186, A255, A256, A265 and A266 MCUs

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FRDM-MCXA266 are compact and scalable development boards for rapid prototyping of MCX A175, A176, A185, A186, A255, A256, A265 and A266 MCUs. They offer industry standard headers for easy access to the MCU's I/Os, integrated open-standard serial interfaces, external flash memory and an on-board MCU-Link debugger. Additional tools like our Expansion Board Hub for add-on boards and the Application Code Hub for software examples are available through the MCUXpresso Developer Experience.

Block Diagram

FRDM-MCXA266

FRDM-MCXA266 Block Diagram
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Supported Devices

Processors and Microcontrollers

MCX A Series Microcontrollers

  • MCX-A17: MCX A17 Essential MCU Arm® Cortex® M33 with 180 MHz and Rich Serial Peripherals
  • MCX-A26: MCX A26: Arm® Cortex®-M33 Mainstream MCU with Rich Serial Peripherals
  • MCX-A25: MCX A25 Enhanced Mainstream MCU Arm® Cortex® M33 with 180 MHz, Rich Serial Peripherals and Security
  • MCX-A18: MCX A18 Essential Mainstream MCU Arm® Cortex® M33 with 240MHz and Rich Serial Peripherals

Features

Microcontroller

  • MCX A266 Arm® Cortex®-M33 core up to 240 MHz
  • Up to 1 MB flash with up to 256 KB RAM with 8 KB ECC, support SmartDMA, Security, FlexIO, CAN-FD, LPUART, LPSPI, LPI²C, I3C and DMA

Connectivity

  • HS USB Type-C connectors (On-board MCU-Link debugger)
  • FS USB Type-C connectors (MCXA266 USB port)
  • CAN/I3C/SPI/I²C/UART connector (Arduino, PMOD/mikroBUS, DNP)
  • Wi-Fi connector (Arduino, PMOD/mikroBUS, DNP)
  • Camera connector (SmartDMA)
  • LCD connector (FlexIO)

Debugger

  • On-board MCU-Link debugger with CMSIS-DAP
  • JTAG/SWD connector

Expansion Options

  • Arduino® Header
  • FRDM Header
  • Pmod™ *DNP
  • mikroBUS™
  • SmartDMA/Camera Header
  • FlexIO/LCD Header

User Interface

  • RGB user LED
  • Reset button
  • ISP button
  • Wake-up button
  • SLCD

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