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Software Development Kit for Kinetis® MCUs

KINETIS-SDK

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NOTE: If you are looking for the latest SDK support for Kinetis microcontrollers, please visit www.nxp.com/mcuxpresso/sdk

Kinetis® SDK v1.x is a collection of comprehensive software enablement for NXP® Kinetis Microcontrollers that includes system startup, peripheral drivers, USB and connectivity stacks, middleware, and real-time operating system (RTOS) kernels. The Kinetis SDK also includes getting started and API documentation along with usage examples and demo applications designed to simplify and accelerate application development on Kinetis MCUs. To see supported Devices for Kinetis SDK v2, go to https://community.nxp.com/docs/DOC-333073 .

All tools and runtime software are provided free-of-charge. The assembly and C source code are provided under permissive and open-source licensing. Support is provided the Kinetis SDK Community Forum.

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Features

  • Arm® CMSIS-CORE startup and device header files and CMSIS-DSP standard libraries
  • Open-source peripheral drivers that provide stateless, high performance, easy-to-use APIs.
  • Drivers for communication peripherals also include high-level transactional APIs for high-performance data transfers and RTOS wrappers that leverage native RTOS services to better comply with the RTOS cases.
  • High-quality software: all drivers and startup code are MISRA-C:2004 compliant and checked with Coverity® static analysis tools
  • Real-time operation systems (RTOS) kernels pre-integrated: FreeRTOS™, Micrium® μC/OS-II®, and μC/OS-III®
  • Stacks and middleware including:
    • The USB device, host, and OTG stack with comprehensive USB class support
    • FatFs, a FAT file system for embedded systems
    • lwIP, a lightweight TCP/IP stack
    • Encryption software utilizing the mmCAU hardware acceleration
    • mbedTLS a lightweight SSL/TLS library
    • WolfSSL, a lightweight SSL/TLS library
    • SDMMC, a software component supporting SD Cards and eMMC
  • Software examples demonstrating the usage of peripheral drivers, RTOS wrapper drivers, middleware and RTOSes

Supported Toolchains

All demo applications and driver examples are provided with projects for the following toolchains:

  • GNU toolchain for Arm® Cortex® -M with Cmake build system
  • IAR Embedded Workbench
  • Keil™ MDK-Arm
  • Kinetis Design Studio IDE

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