Freescale USB Development Board USB-KW40Z User’s Guide, Rev. 0, 10/2015
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USB-KW40Z overview and description
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USB-KW40Z overview and description
3.1
Introduction
The USB-KW40Z development platform is an evaluation environment based on the Freescale
MKW40Z160 SoC device. The MKW40Z160 SoC integrates a radio transceiver operating in the 2.36 GHz
to 2.48 GHz range, supporting a range of FSK/GFSK and O-QPSK modulations, an ARM Cortex-M0+
MCU into a single package.
Freescale supplements the MKW40Z160 S
O
C with tools and software that include hardware evaluation
and development boards, software development IDE, applications, drivers, custom PHY usable with IEEE
Std. 802.15.4 compatible MAC, BLE Link Layer, and enables the Bluetooth Low Energy protocol to be
used in the MBAN frequency range for proprietary applications.
3.2
Board features
3.2.1
USB-KW40Z board
The USB-KW40Z development board contains the MKW40Z160 device it is one of the simplest reference
design utilizing the on chip USB block for power and communication. The USB-KW40Z is a small form
factor self-contained board for evaluation of wireless application and can be used as a packet sniffer. The
USB type-A connection is used with USB enabled hardware such as a computer.
Figure 1
shows the USB-KW40Z development platform.
Figure 1. USB-KW40Z development board
