
NXP Semiconductors
AN12306
A71CL Quick start guide for A71CLARD-BAI and Kinetis
515910
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Rev. 1.0 — 14 December 2018
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List of figures
Fig 1.
System architecture diagram ............................ 3
Fig 2.
A71 mini PCB .................................................... 5
Fig 3.
A71 Mini PCB board schematic ........................ 6
Fig 4.
A71 Mini PCB board silkscreen with default
jumper positions marked black .......................... 7
Fig 5.
A71 Arduino header .......................................... 7
Fig 6.
FRDM-K64F Freedom development platform for
Kinetis K64, K63 and K24 MCUs ...................... 8
Fig 7.
A71 Mini PCB board mounting on the I2C
adaptor of the Arduino interface board .............. 8
Fig 8.
A71 Arduino kit mounted on Kinetis FRDM-
K64F board ....................................................... 9
Fig 9.
Arduino interface board connected to the Kinetis
board (FRDM-K64F) ......................................... 9
Fig 10.
Red USB indicates OpenSDA debug port.
Yellow USB indicates K64F port (FRDM-K64F)
........................................................................ 10
Fig 11.
MCUXpresso install wizard ............................. 11
Fig 12.
Kinetis board selection .................................... 12
Fig 13.
Kinetis SDK configuration ............................... 12
Fig 14.
Installing the downloaded Kinetis SDK into
MCUXpresso ................................................... 13
Fig 15.
A71CL Hostlibrary License .............................. 13
Fig 16.
Select install folder .......................................... 14
Fig 17.
Select start menu entry ................................... 14
Fig 18.
Installation finished ......................................... 15
Fig 19.
Import project from file system ........................ 16
Fig 20.
Project directory to import ............................... 16
Fig 21.
Project directory to import ............................... 17
Fig 22.
OpenSDA bootloader version for the Kinetis
FRDM-K64F .................................................... 18
Fig 23.
Desired firmware for the Kinetis FRDM-K64F . 18
Fig 24.
Enabling bootloader mode .............................. 19
Fig 25.
Copying the firmware into the Kinetis board in
‘BOOTLOADER’ mode ................................... 19
Fig 26.
Configuration steps to debug using
MCUXpresso IDE Console .............................. 21
Fig 27.
Example of generated output printed in
MCUXpresso IDE Console (output from A71CL
example) ......................................................... 21
Fig 28.
SDK Debug Console in UART Console mode 22
Fig 29.
Build and Debug options ................................. 23
Fig 30.
Tera Term new connection ............................. 23
Fig 31.
Serial port setup .............................................. 24
Fig 32.
Terminal setup ................................................ 24
Fig 33.
Generated output printed in Tera Term (log from
A71CL ID2 testsuite) ....................................... 25
Fig 34.
Execution log of A71CL Baidu example .......... 26