Embedded {hardware} specialist MikroElektronika (MIKROE) has anounced a significant milestone for its Click on ecosystem of solderless add-on boards: the discharge of the 1,five hundredth board within the household, a Wirepas Click on for mesh wi-fi communications.
“MIKROE now provides 1,500 Click on boards — greater than every other firm on this planet,” firm chief government officer Nebojsa Matic boasts. “Clicks can be found for a lot of features — sensors, energy, motor management, HMI [Human-Machine Interface], to call only a few. If we take into account wi-fi connectivity alone, designers can select from 160 options.
“At present we’re celebrating our 1500th Click on board,” Matic continues. “However we launch three or 4 new Clicks each week. We additionally provide standardized MCU and show options, and our intention with all these improvement instruments is just to fast-track design. Don’t reinvent the wheel, don’t pay for costly, singular design instruments, get to market quicker.”
The Click on boards are based mostly on MIKROE’s mikroBUS commonplace, and intention to supply compact add-on boards for a spread of improvement boards utilizing a solderless header system. Any Click on board will slot straight in to any mikroBUS socket, including the builder’s selection of — following this week’s launch — over 1,500 add-on devices to a construct rapidly and simply.
The 1,five hundredth board is the Wirepas Click on, designed so as to add 2.4GHz mesh networking capabilities to a mikroBUS slot. (📷: MIKROE)
The 1,five hundredth board itself is the Wirepas Click on, inbuilt partnership with Würth Elektronik and designed so as to add a 2.4GHz radio with mesh communication functionality utilizing the WIRL-PRO2 Thetis-I module. The module provides information charges as much as 1Mb/s and is pushed by a Nordic Semi nRF52840 system-on-chip with a single 32-bit Arm Cortex-M4 core, 256kB of static RAM (SRAM), and 1MB of flash.
To have a good time the milestone, MIKROE has introduced that it’s putting all its Click on boards on a 15 p.c off low cost till this coming Monday, with extra data out there on the MIKROE retailer.