KINETIS-SDK: Software Development Kit for Kinetis^® MCUs

Overview

Kinetis^® SDK v2 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 kex.nxp.com .

The following tools help you design with the Kinetis SDK:

SDK Builder -Get a custom SDK based on your specific evaluation platform or Kinetis MCU
Pins Tool (Web Version , Desktop Version)-Assign signals to pins and generate initialization code
Project Generator-Create or clone SDK projects

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

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Features

Kinetis^® SDK v2 consists of the following runtime software components:

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:
- 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
- EMV L1 that complies to EMV-v4.3_Book_1 specification
- DMA Manager, a software component for managing on-chip DMA resources
Software examples demonstrating the usage of peripheral drivers, RTOS wrapper drivers, middleware and RTOSes

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Features

Kinetis^® SDK v2 consists of the following runtime software components:

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:
- 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
- EMV L1 that complies to EMV-v4.3_Book_1 specification
- DMA Manager, a software component for managing on-chip DMA resources
Software examples demonstrating the usage of peripheral drivers, RTOS wrapper drivers, middleware and RTOSes