MCX A36 Mixed-Signal MCU Arm® Cortex®-M33 240 MHz with Security and Rich Analog Peripherals

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MCX A36 Block Diagram

Features

Core Platform

  • Arm® Cortex®-M33 240 MHz

Processing Accelerators

  • MAU: Supports trigonometric, reciprocal, square, square root, sine, cosine and arctan algorithms
  • SmartDMA: Coprocessor for applications such as parallel camera interface and keypad scanning

Memory

  • Single-bank Flash: Up to 1024 kB Flash with error correction code (ECC) (supports one-bit correction and two-bit detection)
  • Cache Engine with 8 kB RAM
  • Up to 256 kB RAM of which 8 kB is shared with cache, configurable up to 8 kB RAM with ECC (support one-bit correction and two-bit 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 pulse width modulator (PWM) (no Nanoedge module)
    • 2x enhanced Quadrature Encoder/Decoder (eQDC)
    • 2x AOI (AND/OR/Invert) module supports up to four output triggers Analog
    • 4x 16-bit ADC, 3.2 Msps in 16-bit mode, and four Msps in 12-bit mode
    • Up to 82 ADC Input channels total (depending on the package)
    • Integrated temperature sensor
    • 1 x 12-bit digital-to-analog converter (DAC) up to one Msps
    • 3 x High-speed Comparators with eight input pins and 8-bit DAC as internal reference
    • 1x Low Power Analog Comparator (LPCMP) is functional down to Deep Power Down mode
    • 4x operational amplifiers (OPAMPs) without programmable gain amplifier (PGA)
  • Timers
    • 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 direct memory access (DMA) requests
    • Low-power times
    • Frequency measurement timer
    • Windowed watchdog timer
    • Wake timer
    • Micro-tick timer (UTICK)
    • OS event timer
    • Real-time clock (RTC) timer without external 32 kHz input
  • Communication Interfaces for Connectivity
    • 2x low-power serial peripheral interfaces (LPSPIs), 4x low-power inter-integrated circuits (LPI²Cs) and 6x low-power universal asynchronous receivers/transmitters (LUARTs)
    • 1x improved inter-integrated circuit (I3C)
    • USB Full-speed (Device/Host) with on-chip full-speed physical layer (FS PHY)
    • 2x flexible controller area network (FlexCAN) with flexible data-rate (FD)
    • FlexIO
  • Human-Machine Interface (HMI)
    • 4 x 44 segment LCD interface

Security

  • EdgeLock® Accelerator
  • True random number generator (TRNG)
  • Public Key Cryptography (PKC), supports ECC and RSA encryption and decryption
  • SGI (Secure Generic Interface), provides AES256, SHA-2 and key generation/derivation
  • Secure key store with key usage policies (protection of platform integrity, manufacturing and applications keys)
  • 128-bit Universal Unique Identifier (UUID) per device in accordance with Internet Engineering Task Force's (IETF) RFC4122 version5 specification
  • Device life cycle management
  • Flash read/write/execute permission protect by memory boundary checker (MBC) and lockable
  • Implicit-protected Flash Region (IFR)
  • Security Monitoring
  • Code Watchdog for code flow integrity checking
  • 6x Passive anti-tamper pin detection
  • Glitch attack resistant keyed access (GLIKEY) enforces security checks before allowing a write to security-sensitive register
  • Secure Installer for secure manufacturing and intellectual properly (IP) theft protection in an untrusted factory

Packaging

  • WFBGA169 7x7mm, LQFP144 20x20mm, LQFP100 14x14mm, LQFP64 10x10mm

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Documentation

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9 documents

Compact List

Application Note (2)
Application Note Software (2)
Data Sheet (1)
Fact Sheet (1)
Reference Manual (2)
User Guide (1)

Design Resources

Design Files

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2 design files

Hardware

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3 hardware offerings

Software

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4 software files

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