March 17, 2015, Seoul, Korea – Freescale (www.freescale.co.kr, CEO Yeonho Hwang)’s new Kinetis KV5x MCU family fully leverages the potential performance of ARM Cortex®-M7 cores to enable extensive design enhancements in the rapidly expanding and evolving digital motor control market.

Electric motors remain the world's largest source of power consumption. Since the majority of currently used motors are based on generally inefficient, outdated technology, switching to digital-based control systems with secure networking capabilities offers enormous opportunities for both energy conservation and enhanced end-product performance.

The Kinetis KV5x MCU addresses these challenges by combining advanced processing power, precision analog and timing peripherals, and new connectivity, security, and safety features. Furthermore, it provides enhanced motor efficiency, remote system management capabilities, and end-node interoperability through the Internet of Things (IoT) across a wide range of applications, from consumer electronics to complex industrial drives.

The Kinetis KV5x MCU integrates an IEEE® 1588 Ethernet controller, a cryptographic accelerator with a random number generator, and a memory protection device. Since motors are commonly applied in safety-critical environments such as manufacturing process control, developers can leverage these features to implement new services through IoT infrastructure while preventing erroneous inputs that could lead to undesirable operating states.

"The Kinetis KV5x MCU, which combines the advanced processing power of the ARM Cortex®-M7 core with Freescale's market-leading IP, robust connectivity technology, and security and safety features, will establish the motor control and power conversion sectors as attractive new business opportunities in the dynamic IoT environment," said Geoff Lees, General Manager of the Freescale Microcontroller Group. "Kinetis KV5x customers can look forward to a new era of connected industrial applications boasting a new level of performance, reliability, and power efficiency."

The KV5x is equipped with a 240MHz ARM Cortex®-M7 core featuring a single-precision Floating-Point Unit (FPU). This single-precision FPU minimizes CPU standby by executing program code from up to 1MB of on-chip flash memory via a 256-bit interface. 128KB of Data TCM (DTCM) and 64KB of Instruction TCM (ITCM) maximize high-performance deterministic processing to ensure optimal response required for real-time motor speed and position sensing. Furthermore, equipped with four high-speed 12-bit ADCs supporting 5Msps each, the Kinetis KV5x MCU family can support fully asynchronous dual 3-phase motor control via two dedicated ADCs per motor and 8-channel PWM. Additionally, dual 12-channel eFlexPWM supports 312 picosecond resolution, enabling the driving of up to eight half-bridge power stages in power conversion applications.

"Freescale's new Kinetis family plays a leading role in pioneering new areas where energy efficiency and connectivity technologies can drive innovation, thereby expanding motor control beyond existing boundaries," said Noel Hurley, General Manager of the ARM CPU Group. "The latest energy-efficient Cortex®-M7 is the optimal solution for this market, considering its enhanced DSP capabilities and support for critical safety applications."

Freescale Expands Development Resources for Industrial Markets

Freescale announced the new Kinetis KV5x MCU family, along with several new solutions added to its continuously expanding family of products supporting motor control and digital power conversion.

• FRDM-KV10Z, FRDM-KV31F, FRDM-MC-LVBLDC/PMSM - Low-cost Freescale Freedom development platform for BLDC and PMSM motor control, mass production of this product is planned for the second quarter of 2015.

• High-voltage development platform - A 115/230V, 1KW 3-phase motor control software development platform for BLDC, PMSM, and ACIM motors under 1 horsepower, supporting Kinetis KV1x/KV3x/KV4x MCUs and MC56F82748 DSC.

• TWR-SMPS-LVFB - Encompassing various power control algorithms It is a low-voltage full-bridge DC-DC SMPS tower system module equipped with dynamic load and feedback circuits. It includes embedded software libraries and SMPS (Switch-Mode Power Supply) LLC resonant converter reference designs—allowing you to explore libraries of mathematics, motor, and power control functions, as well as offline SMPS reference designs based on LLC resonant converter topologies.

Programming for Kinetis MCUs is available for all Kinetis V Series products and is a service provided to customers who wish to program their own proprietary software onto the MCU before shipment. For more details, please visit Freescale.com/KProgram.

Supply situation

Samples of the Kinetis KV5x MCU are scheduled to be available in the second quarter of 2015, and mass-produced products are scheduled to be available in the latter half of the third quarter of 2015. Further details can be found at www.freescale.com/Kinetis/Vseries.

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