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The MCX W Series pin-compatible multiprotocol wireless MCUs enable interoperable and innovative smart-home devices, building automation sensors and controls, and smart energy products.

Alix Paultre

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In an increasingly linked electronics ecosystem, the ability to function within a variety of wireless protocols becomes more and more important. Addressing wireless multiprotocol platforms by enabling wireless connectivity for multiple standards such as Matter, Thread, Zigbee, and Bluetooth LE, NXP Semiconductors' MCX W wireless microcontrollers are secure, wireless MCUs for compact and scalable designs. The MCUs leverage the Arm Cortex-M33 architecture and have a unified set of pin-compatible multiprotocol wireless options, enabling interoperable and innovative smart-home devices.

Supported by the MCUXpresso Developer Experience, the MCX W series expands the MCX microcontroller family by offering a single MCU platform for developers with a common core, architecture, intelligent peripherals, and software experience. Part of NXP's EdgeLock Assurance program, the MCX W series integrates the company's EdgeLock Secure Enclave Core Profile and supports its EdgeLock 2GO key and certificate management service.

Alix Paultre | Editor-at-Large, Electronic Design

An Army veteran, Alix Paultre was a signals intelligence soldier on the East/West German border in the early ‘80s, and eventually wound up helping launch and run a publication on consumer electronics for the US military stationed in Europe. Alix first began in this industry in 1998 at Electronic Products magazine, and since then has worked for a variety of publications in the embedded electronic engineering space. Alix currently lives in Wiesbaden, Germany.

Also check out his YouTube watch-collecting channel, Talking Timepieces.