NXP Freedom K82F development board for secure applications

The latest NXP Freedom development board, FRDM-K82F, can be used with the Kinetis K82, K81 and K80 series of high-performance, low-power, security-enabled microcontrollers built on the ARM Cortex-M4 core.

The K8x series is designed for secure applications, with security capabilities including boot ROM to support encrypted firmware updates, automatic decryption from external serial NOR flash memory, hardware AES acceleration built with sideband attack protection and hardware support for public key cryptography. These features are implemented while maintaining a high level of compatibility with previous Kinetis MCUs.

Other features include: maximum operation frequency of 150 MHz; 256 KB of flash; 256 KB RAM; a full-speed USB controller with available crystal-less operation; an onboard 6-axis digital accelerometer and magnetometer; an RGB LED; and OpenSDAv2.1, the Freescale mbed HDK-compatible open-source hardware embedded serial and debug adapter.

NXP has designed the development board to provide flexibility by including a range of expansion options, including Arduino R3 compatible pin layout, FlexIO header, a sufficient footprint to include optional Bluetooth and RF expansion modules, and a range of other expansion board options.