TWR-K60N512-IAR: IAR KickStart™ Kinetis^® K60 Tower^® System Kit

Overview

Take your embedded design to the next level with the IAR KickStart Kit^™ for the Kinetis^® K60 family of MCUs. Developed in conjunction with IAR Systems, this kit speeds your time to market with packaged evaluation boards, software development tools, example projects and RTOS BSPs.

The TWR-K60N512-IAR can operate as a standalone evaluation board, and the J-Link Lite for Cortex™-M debug probe will bring you advanced debugging features through Serial Wire Debug (SWD).

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Target Applications

Smart Watch

Specifications

Technical and Functional Specifications

Tower^® System Kinetis^® K60 MCU module (TWR-K60N512)

Kinetis K60N512 device (Cortex^®-M4)
Capacitive Touch Pads
Integrated, open source JTAG)
SD Card Slot, MMA7660 3-axis accelerometer
Tower Plug-In (TWRPI) Socket for expansion (sensors, etc.)
Touch TWRPI Socket adds support for various capacitive touch boards (e.g. keypads, rotary dials, sliders, etc.)
Tower connectivity for access to USB, Ethernet, RS232/RS485, CAN, SPI, I²C, Flex bus, etc.
Potentiometer, 4 LEDs, 2 pushbuttons, infrared port

IAR J-Link Lite for Cortex-M debug probe

SWD/SWO support for Cortex-M0/M1/M3/M4 devices
JTAG clock up to 4 MHz
Flash download
3.3 V target interface voltage (5 V tolerant)
19-pin adapter cable included

Supported Devices

Processors and Microcontrollers

K6x Ethernet

K60_100 : Kinetis^® K60-100 MHz, Mixed-Signal Integration Microcontrollers based on Arm^® Cortex^®-M4 Core
K60_120 : Kinetis^® K60/61-120–150 MHz, Mixed-Signal Integration and Anti-Tamper Microcontrollers based on Arm^® Cortex^®-M4 Core

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Documents and Software

Documents

Application Note ( 2 )

MQX Board Support Package (BSP) - Porting Guide on KEIL

This Application Note describes how to create a new Board Support Package (BSP) for MQX (RTOS) in KEIL for porting purposes
- PDF
- Rev 0
- Oct 31, 2012
- 1.6 MB
- AN4626
- English
- Associated File:
Using CMSIS-DSP Algorithms with MQX and Kinetis^® MCUs

This Application Note discusses about the CMSIS DSP library combined with MQX RTOS for Kinetis K, L, M, E, V Arm^® Cortex-M microcontrollers (MCU)
- PDF
- Rev 0
- Mar 20, 2012
- 691.7 KB
- AN4489
- English

Errata ( 1 )

TWR-K60N512 Tower^® Module Hardware Errata and Changes

This document provides a list of the known errata for the TWR‐K60N512 Tower^® Controller Module
- PDF
- Rev 0
- Jul 12, 2011
- 405.4 KB
- TWRK60N512HWER
- English

Quick Reference Guide ( 2 )

TWR-K60N512-IAR - Quick Reference Guide

The TWR-K60N512 microcontroller module is part of the Tower^® System, a modular development platform that enables rapid prototyping and tool re-use through reconfigurable hardware. This guide briefly describes how to get started using IAR Embedded Workbench ® with IAR J-Link (Lite), USB-JTAG/SWD debug probe for Cortex-M to run an example application on the Kinetis K60N512 board.
- PDF
- Rev 1
- Nov 26, 2014
- 334.1 KB
- TWR-K60N512-IAR-GSG
- English
KQRUG, Kinetis K Quick Reference User Guide

A collection of code examples, useful tips, and quick reference material created to help you speed the development of your applications.
- PDF
- Rev 3
- May 30, 2014
- 2.7 MB
- KQRUG
- English, 中文
Kinetis外设模块演示软件
- PDF
- Rev 3
- May 30, 2014
- 2.7 MB
- KQRUG

Supporting Information ( 3 )

TWR-K60N512 Quick Start Demo Software and Lab Guide

Lab guide for the TWR-K60N512 Quick Start Demo and software source code
- ZIP
- Rev 6
- Oct 7, 2011
- 3.5 MB
- TWRK60N512QSDLAB
- English
Tower Mechanical Drawing

Tower^® Mechanical Drawing
- PDF
- Rev E
- May 21, 2012
- 228.4 KB
- 900-76126_TWR-MECHDRW
- English
Touch Sensing Software 2.5 Beta Release notes

This Release Notes document describes the Touch Sensing Software (TSS) beta installer for Kinetis microcontrollers (MCU)
- PDF
- Rev 2.5
- Nov 8, 2010
- 232.4 KB
- TSS_RELEASE_NOTES
- English

Design Resources

Design Tools & Files ( 3 )

Printed Circuit Boards and Schematics ( 3 )

TWR-K60N512 Schematics (rev D)

Schematics (PDF) for the TWR-K60N512 Tower^® Controller Module (revision D)
- PDF
- Rev D
- 2011-04-05 00:00:00
- 199.2 KB
- TWR-K60N512-SCH_D
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TWR-K60N512 Schematics (rev C)

Schematics (PDF) for the TWR-K60N512 Tower^® Controller Module (revision C)
- PDF
- Rev C
- 2011-04-05 00:00:00
- 199.2 KB
- TWR-K60N512-SCH_C
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TWR-K60N512 Design Package

Design files for the TWR-K60N512 PWA (700-26548). Includes schematics (OrCAD and PDF), bill of material and layout (Allegro, gerbers, ODB++).
- EXE
- Rev A
- 2010-11-05 00:00:00
- 5.0 MB
- TWR-K60N512-PWB
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Software

Embedded Software ( 5 )

BSP, Drivers and Middleware ( 1 )

FreeMASTER Communication Driver
- EXE
- Rev 2.0
- 2016-09-20 00:00:00
- 5.9 MB
- FMASTERSCIDRV
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Code Snippets ( 3 )

How to configure ADC 0 and 1 in the TWR-K60

Software offered 'As is', support provided on NXP^® Communities only – How to configure ADC 0 and 1 in the TWR-K60
- ZIP
- Rev 0
- 2014-03-21 00:00:00
- 208.1 KB
- TWR-K60-ADC
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Kinetis 100MHz Rev 2 Example Projects
- ZIP
- Rev 1.0
- 2013-05-23 00:00:00
- 722.5 KB
- KINETIS512_V2_SC
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Kinetis MCU C/C++ Header Files
- ZIP
- Rev A
- 2011-11-07 00:00:00
- 783.4 KB
- KINETIS_HEADER_FILES
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Libraries ( 1 )

Touch Sensing Software 2.5 beta installer for Kinetis

Software offered 'As is', support provided on NXP^® Communities only – Touch Sensing Software library version for Kinetis^®. This version is compiled specifically for IAR compiler. This software is able to use the TSI module (touch sensing input) for highly robust touch sensing, as well as use the software-based GPIO method. Up to 64 electrodes are configurable, out of which 16 can be the 16 TSI pins and the rest can be GPIO pins.
- EXE
- Rev 2.5
- 2010-11-09 00:00:00
- 53.3 MB
- FSLTSSLIB_2_5_KINETIS
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Development Software ( 2 )

IDE and Build Tools ( 2 )

Design Studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

The Kinetis Design Studio is a complimentary, integrated development environment for Kinetis MCUs that enables robust editing, compiling and debugging.

Download Options
FreeMASTER tool 2.0 – Installer

OLD VERSION of FreeMASTER desktop application installation package.
- EXE
- Rev 2.0.9
- 2018-11-01 15:20:00
- 40.3 MB
- FMASTERSW
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TWR-K60N512-IAR: IAR KickStart™ Kinetis® K60 Tower® System Kit