NXP K32W0x
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The K32W0 device family from NXP are ultra-low power, high performance Cortex-M4 based wireless microcontrollers.
On-Chip Memory Regions
The K32W0 series devices have an internal flash of 640 KiB size. The K32W041AM device has an additional 1MiB internal QSPI flash built in.
Instance Name | Size (bytes) | Memory region | Devices |
---|---|---|---|
Internal flash | 655360 | 0x00000000 - 0x0009FFFF | K32W041, K32W041A, K32W041AM, K32W061 |
Internal QSPI flash | 1048576 | 0x00000000 - 0x000FFFFF | K32W041AM |
Internal Flash
Supported Regions
The internal flash is divided into 3 different regions:
- Reserved by flash controller (0x9F000 - 0x9FFFF)
- Reserved by boot code (0x9DE00 - 0x9EFFF)
- Application space (0x00000 - 0x9DDFF)
For now, the J-Link supports the application space, only.
Vector Table Remap
The first 512 bytes of the device (0x0000 - 0x01FF) can be mapped to flash, ROM or RAM. When using the J-Link flashloader, this region is mapped to flash. This is done on purpose as the device does not provide a mirror address for the first 512 bytes of flash thus without remapping, the J-Link could not program the first 512 bytes.
ECC flash
The flash seems to be ECC protected. Read fails for sectors with invalid ECC (e.g. erased sectors). In order to prevent errors when reading empty sectors, the DLL do neither perform a blank check nor a compare of the flash content before programming.
Internal QSPI Flash
The built in internal QSPI flash of the K32W041AM has a size of 1 MiB. The K32W041AM supports SPI flashes of sizes up to 4 MiB.
Reset
The device has a ROM code which needs to be run after reset. The J-Link halts the MCU after executing the ROM code but before starting the application.
Evaluation Boards
- NXP K32W041AM evaluation board: https://wiki.segger.com/NXP_K32W041AM
Example Application
- NXP K32W041AM evaluation board: https://wiki.segger.com/NXP_K32W041AM#Example_Project