November 5, 2026 – Mouser Electronics, Inc., the industry's leading New Product Introduction (NPI) distributor with the widest selection of semiconductors and electronic components™, is now stocking the FRDM-MCXW72 development board from NXP^® Semiconductors. The scalable, flexible FRDM-MCXW72 platform accelerates prototyping and evaluation of the MCX W72 wireless microcontroller (MCU), including its secure multiprotocol connectivity and Bluetooth^® Channel Sounding capabilities. Developers can evaluate Bluetooth LE, Matter^®, Thread^®, Zigbee^®, and Bluetooth Channel Sounding for smart home, building automation, industrial IoT, smart energy, and other connected applications.

The MCX W72 is a high-performance, secure, low-power multiprotocol wireless MCU featuring a 96MHz Arm^® Cortex^®-M33 main core with 2 MB Flash and 264 KB RAM, Bluetooth LE 6.3 qualified with Channel Sounding, a dedicated hardware accelerator (Localization Compute Engine) to improve ranging performance, 802.15.4 (Thread, Zigbee, Matter), and an integrated EdgeLock Secure Enclave. Two FRDM-MCXW72 boards can be used to evaluate the MCX W72 Channel Sounding and Ranging feature. The FRDM-MCXW72 development board offers a USB Type-C^® programmer/debugger with a serial interface and industry-standard headers for easy access to the MCU I/Os. Additional features of the FRDM-MCXW72 include onboard buttons, LEDs, 8 MB of SPI Flash memory, a light sensor, and a 3-axis accelerometer. The FRDM-MCXW72 board is supported by Zephyr™ RTOS and the MCUXpresso developer experience, which enable open-source and NXP-provided development workflows. Multiple add-on boards for the FRDM-MCXW72 are available through NXP's Expansion Board Hub, and the NXP Application Code Hub provides access to over 140 code snippets and tutorials.

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