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Chapter 2
Introduction
2.1 Overview
This chapter provides an overview of the Kinetis portfolio and K20 family of products. It
also presents high-level descriptions of the modules available on the devices covered by
this document.
2.2 Kinetis Portfolio
Kinetis is the most scalable portfolio of low power, mixed-signal ARM
®
Cortex
™
-M4
MCUs in the industry. Phase 1 of the portfolio consists of five MCU families with over
200 pin-, peripheral- and software-compatible devices. Each family offers excellent
performance, memory and feature scalability with common peripherals, memory maps,
and packages providing easy migration both within and between families.
Kinetis MCUs are built from Freescale’s innovative 90nm Thin Film Storage (TFS) flash
technology with unique FlexMemory. Kinetis MCU families combine the latest low-
power innovations and high performance, high precision mixed-signal capability with a
broad range of connectivity, human-machine interface, and safety & security peripherals.
Kinetis MCUs are supported by a market-leading enablement bundle from Freescale and
numerous ARM 3rd party ecosystem partners.
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