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TRK-KEA
Introduction and Default Settings
The TRK-KEA features either one of the KEA128, KEA64 or KEA8 MCUs, depending on
the board version. The KEA family is aimed at automotive body electronic applications.
Kinetis EA series MCUs integrate an ARM
®
Cortex
®
-M0+ core, a CAN module
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, a UART
module with LIN capabilities, a pulse width timer (PWT) and a keyboard interrupt module
(KBI). All these peripherals together with standard serial communication protocols such as
I
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C and SPI offer flexibility for a width variety of applications.
The TRK-KEA board includes an onboard OpenSDA programmer and debugger,
LIN physical transceiver, CAN physical transceiver, a light sensor, four LEDs and two
pushbuttons for user interface.
This guide will show how to connect the board to a host PC and execute a demonstration
application preloaded into the flash memory, with the goal to prototype in 24 Hours.
Default jumper positions of the TRK-KEA board are shown in the figure.
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Only available on KEA128
