Kinetis K66 SDK

Setup for Kinetis K66 SDK

Go to the MCUXpresso SDK Builder linked below. If you click on "Select Development Board" you will be taken to a page where you can select the Kinetis K66 microcontroller and put together an SDK package. You might need to login again to your NXP account.

Then, press the green "Build MCUXpresso SDK" button on the right.

REAL TUTORIAL

Open the MCUXpresso program you just installed. First choose which directory you want your workspace to be. After that you will be greeted with the welcome page. There click on the "Download and Install SDK".

Once you clicked, another tab opens. This page might take a while to open fully. As you can see on the bottom right of the page there is a percentage counter refreshing the SDK repositories. Wait for it to finish then the list of SDKs will show up.

Eventually you should get this page:

In this page you will first change the "Boards" tab to "Processors". Then use the filter option on the right to search for the MK66FN processor.

Select the first option then click on the "Install" button on the bottom of the page. When you do that a License Agreement will open. If you agree with this agreement select the accept option and click "Finish". Then wait for the installation to be complete.

SDK examples

Now you can start by running a Hello World program in your board. First things first is to import an SDK example. Then we can figure out how to run code on our board. Go to File > New > Import SDK example(s).

Select the board you are using:

When selected there will be a list of examples you can choose from. We are selecting the "hello_world" example in "demo_apps". Then click on "finish" to open the example.

After opening the example, we can try to run the example code on our board.

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