MCU Development Kits. This micro-controller development boards list does not intend to be exhaustive. On the contrary, I only plan to list the boards that I find remarkable either by the level of community support, price or features, and I plan to keep the list shorter than 10 boards. Arduino Boards The Arduino boards are little development boards usually based on AVR MCUs, but a new version will also support ARM based ATMEL SAM3U micro-controller. What’s great about the Arduino is the low price (Starting at around 10 Euros), the huge community behind, the tutorials and the “shields“, some extension boards to add features to the basic boards. There are too many boards and versions to list here, so check out the list on Arduino website. The most commonly used boards appear to be Arduino Uno and Arduino Mega. Blog Posts: Official URL: Price: Starting just below $12 US and up to more than $100 US including shield. Where to Buy: Texas Instruments Launchpad Blog Post: Price: $4.30 + shipping mbed Boards.
MicroFTX. The FT230X supports bitbang GPIO (general-purpose input/output) modes that allow you to set and read digital pins directly. It’s a great way to let your computer drive a simple binary output, or to read the state of a switch. For full details, see the FT230X website and datasheet. FTDI’s bitbang app note AN232R-01 hasn’t been updated for the FT-X series of chips yet, but the setup and usage of bitbang mode is essentially the same.
Two forms of bitbang are supported. They are enabled with FD_SetBitMode (D2XX) or ftdi_set_bitmode (libftdi): BITMODE_BITBANG uses the RX, TX, CTS, and RTS pins and works out of the boxBITMODE_CBUS uses the CBx pins, but needs to be enabled first in the EEPROM On Linux, libftdi provides a pretty easy way to use bitbang. To test it out, download this file as ftdi-bitbang.c, compile, and run it: $ sudo apt-get install libftdi-dev build-essential $ gcc -o ftdi-bitbang ftdi-bitbang.c -lftdi $ . AVR Battery Management Microcontrollers. Get Started We'll tell you all you need to know to start evaluating and working with this product. Discover why Atmel AVR MCUs are simple to use and used everywhere. » Learn More Extending Energy Per Cycle and Battery Life Atmel AVR offers single-chip battery management products for Li-ion batteries.
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