
Overview and description
FRDM-
KW36 Minimum BoM Development Board User’s Guide, User’s Guide, Rev. 0, 09/20187
2
NXP Semiconductos.
FRDM-KW36 Freedom Development Board User's Guide
(document
FRDMKW36ZUG
). Find the
schematic and design files at this
link
(NXP web page).
2 Overview and description
The KW36 minimum BoM development board is an evaluation environment supporting NXP
KW35Z/36Z/35A/36A (KW36) Wireless Microcontrollers (MCU). The KW36 integrates a radio
transceiver operating in the 2.4 GHz band (supporting a range of GFSK and Bluetooth LE) and an Arm
Cortex-M0+ MCU into a single package. NXP supports the KW36 with tools and software that include
hardware evaluation and development boards, software development IDE, applications, drivers, and a
custom PHY with a Bluetooth LE Link Layer. The KW36 minimum BoM development board (31417)
consists of the KW36Z device with a 32 MHz reference oscillator crystal, RF circuitry (including antenna),
supplied with a coin cell CR2032 or an external power supply. The board is a standalone PCB and supports
application development with NXP’s Bluetooth Low Energy and Generic FSK libraries.
2.1 Overview
Figure 1 is a high-level block diagram of the KW36 Minimum BoM board (X-UBluetooth LEKWZ0-
31417) features:
Figure 1. KW36 Minimum BoM board block diagram