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NXP FRDM Development Board for MCX N94/N54 Series MCUs

Compact and scalable prototyping boards for rapid MCU development

Enable rapid prototyping of MCX N Series Microcontrollers: Highly integrated, low-power MCUs designed with intelligent peripherals and on-chip accelerators that provide the ultimate balance of performance and energy consumption.

Features

  • Compact and scalable development board design
  • Industry-standard headers for MCU I/O access
  • Integrated open-standard serial interfaces
  • External flash memory and on-board MCU-Link debugger
  • Support for Expansion Board Hub and MCUXpresso Application Code Hub

Applications

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

 

Technology Highlight – Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

From face and person detection to real-time decision-making, this board makes ML/AI development fast, flexible, and accessible. Get Started Now with some of our application code hub demos:

 

FRDM-MCXN947 Diagram

NXP FRDM-MCXN947 Block Diagram

 

MCX N Series: Key Features

Learn more about MCX N »

Microcontroller

  • MCX-N947 with dual Arm® Cortex®-M33 cores @150 MHz each
  • Up to 2 MB dual-bank flash with optional full ECC RAM
  • External flash support

Hardware Accelerators

  • Neural Processing Unit (NPU)
  • PowerQuad
  • SmartDMA
  • Additional on-chip acceleration engines

Expansion Options

  • Arduino® header (with FRDM expansion rows)
  • FRDM header
  • FlexIO / LCD header
  • SmartDMA / camera header
  • Pmod™ (DNP)
  • mikroBUS™

Connectivity

  • Ethernet PHY and connector
  • High-speed USB Type-C connectors
  • SPI / I²C / UART (via PMOD or mikroBUS; DNP variants available)
  • Wi-Fi connector (PMOD/mikroBUS; DNP variants available)
  • CAN-FD transceiver

Memory Expansion

  • DNP microSD card socket

User Interface

  • RGB user LED
  • Reset, ISP, and Wakeup buttons

Debug

  • On-board MCU-Link debugger with CMSIS-DAP
  • JTAG/SWD connector

Sensor Integration

  • P3T1755 I3C/I²C temperature sensor
  • Touch pad interface