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MCX A17 Essential MCU Arm® Cortex® M33 with 180 MHz and Rich Serial Peripherals

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The MCX A17 family is optimized for motor control applications, delivering high performance and advanced integration. These devices operate at up to 180 MHz and feature two FlexPWM modules with four submodules each, enhanced by AOI logic for sophisticated motor control. They also include up to two ADCs, SmartDMA for efficient data handling, and a rich set of serial interfaces such as I3C, CAN FD, USB, and FlexIO.

The MCX A175 and A176 provide up to 1 MB of Flash and 256 KB of RAM, while the MCX A173 and A174 offer up to 256 KB of Flash and 64 KB of RAM, giving developers flexibility to match application needs. All MCX A17 devices are supported by the MCUXpresso Developer Experience, which provides a comprehensive suite of tools and resources to simplify development and accelerate time-to-market.

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Features

Core Platform

Arm® Cortex®-M33 180 MHz

Processing Accelerators

SmartDMA, co-processor for applications such as parallel camera interface and keypad scanning

Memory

Single-bank Flash: 256 KB Flash up to 1024 KB Flash with ECC (support one bit correction and two bits detection)
Cache Engine with 8 KB RAM
64 KB RAM to 256 KB of RAM which 8 KB is shared with cache, configurable as up to 8 KB RAM with ECC (support one bit correction and two bits detection)
All RAM can be retained down to Deep Power Down mode
ROM

Peripherals

Advanced Motor Control
- 2x FlexPWM each with 4 submodules, providing 16 complementary outputs of PWM (no Nanoedge module)
- 2x Quadrature Encoder/Decoder (eQDC)
- 2x AOI (AND/OR/Invert) module support up to 4 output triggers
Analog
- 2x 16-bit ADC
  - 3.2 Msps in 16-bit mode, and 4 Msps in 12-bit mode
  - Up to 43 ADC Input channels total (depending on the package)
  - Integrated temperature sensor
- 1 x 12-bit DAC
  - Up to 1 Msps
- 2 x High-speed Comparators with 8 input pins and 8-bit DAC as internal reference
  - 1x LPCMP is functional down to Deep Power Down mode
- 1x OPAMP without PGA
Timers
- Up to 5 x 32-bit standard general-purpose asynchronous timers/counters, which support up to four capture inputs and four compare outputs, PWM mode, and external count input. Specific timer events can be selected to generate DMA requests
- Low power times
- Frequency measurement timer
- Windowed watchdog timer
- Wake timer
- Microtick timer (UTICK)
- OS event timer
- RTC timer without external 32 KHz input
Communication Interfaces for Connectivity
- 2x LPSPI, up to 4x LPI2C, up to 5x LPUART
- 1x I3C
- USB Full-speed (Device) with on-chip FS PHY
- 1x FlexCAN with FD
- FlexIO

Security

128-bit Universal Unique Identifier (UUID) per device in accordance with IETF's RFC4122 version5 specification
Device life cycle management
Flash read/write/execute permission protect by MBC and lockable
Implicit-protected Flash Region (IFR)
Security Monitoring
- Code watchdog for code flow integrity checking
- GLIKEY enforces security checks before allowing a write to security-sensitive register
- 6x Passive anti tamper detect

Packaging

MCX A173 and A174: LQFP100 14x14mm, LQFP64 10x10mm, LQFP48 7x7mm, H-PQFN32 5x5mm
MCX A175 and A176: WFBGA169 7x7mm, LQFP144 20x20mm, LQFP100 14x14mm, LQFP64 10x10mm

MCUXpresso Developer Experience

MCUXpresso ecosystem support
- Selection of IDE choices
- Pin, clock, peripheral, security and memory config tools
- Security programming and provisioning tools
- Software development kit (SDK)
Zephyr RTOS support

MCX A17

Product	Main Clock	Flash	Features	Packages	FRDM Board
MCXA173	180 MHz	128 KB	2x ADC, 1x Op Amp, USB, 1x CAN	HVQFN32 LQFP48 LQFP64 LQFP100	FRDM-MCXA174
MCXA174	180 MHz	256 KB	2x ADC, 1x Op Amp, USB, 1x CAN	HVQFN32 LQFP48 LQFP64 LQFP100	FRDM-MCXA174
MCXA175	180 MHz	512 KB	2x ADC, 1x Op Amp, USB, 1x CAN	LQFP64 LQFP100 LQFP144 WFBGA169	FRDM-MCXA266
MCXA176	180 MHz	1024 KB	2x ADC, 1x Op Amp, USB, 1x CAN	LQFP64 LQFP100 LQFP144 WFBGA169	FRDM-MCXA266