MCX Industrial and IoT Microcontrollers

Empowering the Edge Everywhere

The MCX portfolio is a comprehensive selection of Arm® Cortex®-M based MCUs, offering expanded scalability with breakthrough product capabilities, simplified system design and a developer-focused experience through our MCUXpresso suite of software and tools. The new simplified system design offers optimal enablement and intelligent peripherals for the secure connected edge including machine learning, wireless, voice, motor control, analog and more. The MCX portfolio is part of NXP’s EdgeVerse edge computing platform.

Industrial
  • Factory Automation
  • Power & Energy
  • Building Control
  • Medical Equipment
Smart Home
  • Control & Security
  • Smart Appliances
  • Home Entertainment
  • Health & Fitness
General Embedded
  • Industrial/Consumer HMI
  • Hand-held Devices
  • Power Tools
  • General Purpose Embedded Control

Watch MCX Microcontrollers for the Intelligent Edge

 

  • MCX N
  • MCX A
  • MCX C
  • MCX W
  • FRDM Dev Boards
  • MCX L - Coming Soon
MCX N MCU Advantages and Features

MCX N

NXP’s MCX N series are designed for high performance and low power consumption. MCX N includes intelligent peripherals and on-chip accelerators providing multitasking capabilities and performance efficiency. Select MCX N families include NXP's eIQ® Neutron neural processing unit (NPU) for machine learning applications.

Key Features:

Performance
  • Dual CM33 150MHz
  • DSP, NPU
Smart Home
  • Flexcomm, FlexIO, FlexPWM, FlexSPI
  • Touch, Motor Control, Analog
Advanced Security
  • Crypto, Tamper-Detect
  • Life-cycle Management
Power and Operation
  • Buck DC-DC, Core LDO, other LDOs
  • Separate AO domain on VBAT pin
  • Operating voltage: 1.71V to 3.6V
  • Temperature range: -40 to 105 °C
  • IOs: 1.71V to 3.6V
Package Options
  • VFBGA184: 9 x 9 x 0.86 mm, 0.5 mm pitch
  • HLQFP100: 14 x 14 x 1.4 mm, 0.5 mm pitch
MCX N Series

Product Highlight:
MCX N Series Microcontrollers

Highly integrated multicore MCUs with on-chip accelerators, intelligent peripherals and advanced security.

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MCX N23 Series

Product Highlight:
MCX N23 Family

Highly integrated MCUs with on-chip accelerators, intelligent peripherals and advanced security.

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MCX A MCU Advantages and Features

MCX A

NXP's MCX A series is optimized to provide critical functionality for a broad range of applications such as motor control, where cost constraints, advanced analog capabilities such as high-precision data converters, and fast time-to-market are key considerations.

Key Features:

I/O Capability
  • Up to 8 Hi-drive 20mA pins
  • 50MHz IOs on select ports
  • 5V tolerant IOs on select pins
Power and Operation
  • Capless LDO power architecture
  • Operating voltage: 1.7 to 3.6V
  • Temperature range: -40 to 105 °C
  • IOs: 1.71V to 3.6V
Package Options
  • 64LQFP: 10 x 10 x 1.4 mm, 0.5 mm pitch
  • 48QFN: 7 x 7 x 0.9 mm, 0.5 mm pitch
  • 32QFN: 5 x 5 x 0.9 mm, 0.5 mm pitch
MCX A MCU Advantages and Features

Product Highlight:
MCX A Series

NXP's MCX A series is optimized to provide critical functionality for a broad range of applications such as motor control, where cost constraints, advanced analog capabilities such as high-precision data converters, and fast time-to-market are key considerations.

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MCX C MCU Advantages and Features

MCX C

The MCX C series MCUs, powered by Arm® Cortex®-M0+ up to 48 MHz, are designed for energy efficiency and cost effectiveness, making them ideal for general-purpose applications. Featuring USB and segment LCD options, these MCUs cater to diverse needs. The MCX C Series extends the classical IPs within NXP MCUs, providing flexible and scalable memory and packages.

Key Features:

Performance with Low Power
  • Two times more CoreMarks®/mA than the closest 8/16-bit
  • Single-cycle fast I/O access port facilitates bit banging and software protocol emulation
  • Multiple, flexible low-power modes
  • LPUART, SPI, I2C, ADC, DAC, LP timer and DMA support low-power mode operation without waking up the core
Power and Operation
  • Temperature range: -40 to 125°C (Tj)
  • IOs: 1.71V to 3.6V
  • 48MHz, 32KB–256KB
  • Easy-to-use peripherals
  • Cost-effective design for entry-level applications
Security
  • 80-bit unique identification number per chip
  • Advanced flash security
  • COP Software watchdog
MCX C MCU Advantages and Features

Product Highlight:
MCX C Series

The MCX C Series extends the classical IPs within NXP MCUs, providing flexible and scalable memory and packages. This enhances the already efficient MCUXpresso Developer Experience.

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MCX W MCU Advantages and Features

MCX W

MCX W series are secure, wireless MCUs designed to enable more compact, scalable and innovative designs for the next generation of smart and secure connected devices. The MCX W series, based on the Arm® Cortex®-M33, offers a unified range of pin-compatible multiprotocol wireless MCUs for Matter, Thread®, Bluetooth® Low Energy and Zigbee®. MCX W enables interoperable and innovative smart home devices, building automation sensors and controls and smart energy products. The MCX W series is supported by the MCUXpresso Developer Experience.

Key Features:

High Performance Core and Radio Subsystem
  • Arm Cortex-M33 application core
  • Radio subsystem with separate core, flash, and RAM
  • Offload application core by running connectivity stacks on the radio subsystem
Upgradable Radio with Channel Sounding Support
  • Radio subsystem supports the latest wireless standards
  • Firmware upgradable to future wireless standards
  • Support for Bluetooth channel sounding standard for accurate distance measurement (MCX W72 only)
Security
  • EdgeLock® Secure Enclave, Core Profile
  • Edgelock 2GO support for cloud-based certificate injection and management
  • Hardware-accelerated cryptography
MCX W MCU Advantages and Features

Product Highlight:
MCX W Series

Secure, low-power, wireless MCUs designed for Matter, Thread, Zigbee, and Bluetooth Low Energy.

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FRDM DEVELOPMENT BOARD FOR MCX

FRDM DEV BOARDS

FRDM development boards are a low-cost scalable hardware platform supported by the MCUXpresso Developer Experience. Designed to promote creative freedom while developing for a variety of end applications, these compact boards offer flexible and rapid prototyping with industry-standard headers providing easy access to the MCU's I/Os. With the onboard MCU-Link debug probe and USB-C cable included, engineers can develop, debug and program with ease.

Key Features:

Hardware Features
  • Easy access to MCU I/O Pins
  • On-board MCU Link high speed debugger
  • Serial to USB bridges
  • Convenient USB connector
Rapid Application development
  • Specialized FRDM connectors, Arduino, mikroBUS and Pmod connectors
  • Expansion Board Hub to find add-on boards from NXP and partners
Software Enablement
MCX N Essential Series

Featured Product:
FRDM-MCXW71

Pin-compatible multiprotocol wireless MCUs for Matter, Thread®, Bluetooth® Low Energy and Zigbee®.

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FRDM-MCXN947

FRDM-MCXN947

  • PowerQuad, NPU, SmartDMA Accelerators
  • 4ch DMIC, cap touch
  • FlexPWM, QDC

FRDM-MCXN23

FRDM-MCXA153

  • Up to 96 MHz
  • 4 Msps 12b ADC
  • Up to 128KB flash

FRDM-MCXA156

FRDM-MCXC444

FRDM-MCXC041

FRDM-MCXC242

FRDM-MCXW71