Category Archives: dev boards

Discovery kit for the STM32L EnergyLite 32-bit MCUs

The STM32L-DISCOVERY helps you to discover the STM32L ultralow power features and to develop and share your applications. It is based on an STM32L152RBT6 and includes an ST-Link/V2 embedded debugging tool interface, an LCD (24 segments, 4 commons), LEDs, pushbuttons, a linear touch sensor or touchkeys. You can download the product brief here. The Discovery […]

First 32bit Arduino avalable soon

Digilent is soon to be launching two Arduino compatible platforms, the Uno32(pictured above)and the Max32. based on microchip‘s pic32mx micro controllers. Following the Arduino philosophy of easy to use software and hardware, and not to mention the support structure already in place. they are both compatibly with existing shields.

Microchip PIC24 development kit for Android

Here is Microchip’s response to the Arduino based hardware for use with Google’s ADK. Microchip has announced the release of the Microchip PIC24F Accessory Development Start Kit for Android™. This is a standalone board used for evaluating and developing electronic accessories for Google’s Android operating system for smartphones and tablets. Microchip’s PIC24F Accessory Development Starter […]

chipKIT Uno32™ Arduino-compatible prototyping platform

Digilent, Inc. announces the pending release of the chipKIT™ Uno32™. The Uno32 is an Arduino-compatible platform combining Arduino compatibility with the performance of the Microchip PIC32 microcontroller. The Uno32 is the same form factor as the Arduino Uno board and is compatible with Arduino shields. It features a USB serial port interface for connection to […]

DEV.BO Ver 2.0 MSP430F5510 dev board

Nicholas J. Conn of NJC’s MSP430 Launchpad Blog announces the release of the DEV.BO Ver 2.0 development board. This board, based on the MSP430F5510 is easily programmed using the LaunchPad or any MSP430 JTAG programmer. Features include a max clock speed of 25MHz, integrated 32kHz crystal, 25K of flash memory, 1 USCI_A (UART/LIN/IrDA/SPI), 1 USCI_B […]

STM32VL-Discovery with ChibiOS/RT

Getting started with STM32VL-Discovery board and ChibiOS/RT: ChibiOS/RT is a complete, portable, open source, compact and extremely fast Real Time Operating System. ChibiOS/RT offers an excellent support for the STM32 platform. All drivers are “native” in order to minimize the memory footprint, the bulky ST library has not been used (but is supported). The STM32 on […]

Chumby controls Freescale Mechatronics board over USB

In this video, Eric Gregori of EMGRobotics demonstrates how he controls the Freescale Mechatronics board with the Chumby over USB. Starting out with a stock Chumby from Best Buy, Eric steps through how to access the Easter egg hacker screen. Then after installing the Terra Term terminal program on your computer you SSH to the […]

Max V CPLD development kit

The Altera Max V Development Kit is designed around the MAX V CPLD (5M570Z, 256-pin FBGA, -5 speed). The board features two general-purpose 2×20-pin 0.1-inch expansion headers, a 4-pin PC speaker header, two 6-pin motor control headers, a Type B USB connector (power source and communication port) with cable. The board has footprints for the […]

XC9572XL CPLD development board build

Haley posted build pictures of the XC9572XL CPLD development board from a free PCB Sunday. Thanks for posting a picture of the completed board! Under our new unlimited free PCB program Haley received a coupon code for a new free PCB. Get an assembled XC9572XL development board for $15. A CoolRunner-II dev-board is also available for […]

What does a $7,500 dev kit look like?

We’re all familiar with CPLD and FPGA. Now Tabula, Inc., has debuted their line of 3PLD chips. Known as the ABAX product family and presently targeted primarily at communications equipment vendors, the chips are said to employ an innovative architecture called Spacetime that enables the devices to achieve superior density and capability for logic, memory, […]

MachXO2 Pico Development Kit promo

Remember the Lattice MachXO2 PLD we mentioned back in December? Well the MachXO2 Pico Development Kits are now available from Lattice Semi! The MachXO2 Pico Development Kit features the MachXO2 LCMXO2-1200ZE device, 1 Mbit SPI Flash, I2C temperature sensor, an expansion header for JTAG, SPI, I2C and GPIO interfaces, an LCD display and capacitive touch […]

Amicus18 prototype board

Amicus18 is a multifunction development system inspired by the popular Arduino board. Its based on the Microchip PIC® 18F25K20 running at 16 MHz supplemented by a FT232RL USB-to-serial chip and a LMV358. Full documentation is available, as well as a free Proton BASIC Compiler, which is based on Crownhill’s Proton BASIC Compiler. The bootloader source […]

Avnet Spartan-6 LX9 MicroBoard

In a recent comment, Zooboo informed us of the Spartan®-6 FPGA LX9 MicroBoard. Produced as a joint venture between Xilinx and Avnet, the MicroBoard includes a Spartan-6 XC6SLX9-2CSG324C FPGA, 64 MB LPDDR SDRAM, 128 Mb Multi-I/O SPI Flash, 10/100 Ethernet PHY, USB-to-UART port, on-board USB, JTAG circuitry, single-chip 3-rail power with Power Good indicator. It’s […]

Altera BeMicro SDK FPGA USB dev stick

Kati writes to inform us that Altera and Arrow Electronics have teamed up to introduce the BeMicro SDK (Software Development Kit), a prototyping board for embedded software developers to learn about FPGAs. The board runs a soft embedded processor on a 22K logic element FPGA, and utilizes the popular USB stick format. It’s available on […]

Protostack 28 pin AVR development board v1.6

Daniel writes: Back in July last year we released version 1.5 of our28 Pin AVR board. Since then we’ve had a lot of feedback and have just released version 1.6, which has 4 improvements over version 1.5. The size of the IDC/Dual row area has been increased from 2×8 to 2×9 holes. We added square […]