Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.

User’s Guide

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About this guide

This manual describes the Freescale USB-KW40Z

development platform. The USB-KW40Z board is a small,

cost-effective evaluation and development board for

application prototypes and demonstration of the

MKW40Z160 SoC family of devices. This evaluation board

offers an easy-to-use mass-storage device mode flash

programmer, a virtual serial port, classic programming, and

run-control capabilities.

The MKW40Z160 SoC is an ultra low-power, highly

integrated single-chip device that enables Bluetooth Low

for portable, extremely low-power embedded systems. The

MKW40Z160 SoC family integrates a radio transceiver

operating in the 2.36 GHz to 2.48 GHz range supporting a

SRAM, BLE Link Layer hardware, 802.15.4 packet

processor hardware, and peripherals optimized to meet the

requirements of the target applications.

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Audience

This manual is intended for system designers.

Document Number: USBKW40ZUG

Rev. 0, 10/2015

Contents

1. About this guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

1.1.Audience . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

2. Safety information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

2.1.FCC guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

2.2.Regulatory approval for Canada (IC RSS 210) . . . 3

2.3.Electrostatic discharge considerations . . . . . . . . . . 3

2.4.Disposal instructions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

3. USB-KW40Z overview and description . . . . . . . . . . 4

3.1.Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

3.2.Board features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

3.3.Serial and debug adapter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

4. USB-KW40Z development board . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

4.1.USB-KW40Z board overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

4.2.Functional description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

4.3.Schematic, board layout, and bill of material . . . 16

5. PCB manufacturing specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

5.1.Single PCB construction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

5.2.Panelization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

5.3.Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22

5.4.Solder mask . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

5.5.Silk screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

5.6.Electrical PCB testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

5.7.Packaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

5.8.Hole specification/tool table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

5.9.File description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

6. Revision history . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

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