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14rhb over 7 years ago

Looks like Arduino have brought out two new boards, the Uno WiFi Rev2 and the MKR Vidor 4000 (an FPGA/SAM D21 microcontroller).

Both look really interesting.

Time to do some more reading.....and more importantly find where I can get hold of one.

https://blog.arduino.cc/2018/05/17/say-hello-to-the-next-generation-of-arduino-boards/

Rod

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shabaz over 7 years ago

Interesting : ) Especially that smaller board.
The larger one, I wish they'd gone for a Cortex-M though : ) Still, looks useful.
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jomoenginer over 7 years ago in reply to shabaz

I believe the intent was to keep the UNO as an ATmega 8-bit based board since they have the Zero with the SAMD21 chip; given they intend to keep the Zero in production.
The ATmega4809 in the new UNO does have Configurable Custom Logic (CCL) which makes a bit more customizable:
https://hackaday.com/tag/atmega4809/

There is a Yun 2 that is listed as Coming Soon as well with a EAD of April 23rd. 2019 perhaps?.
https://store.arduino.cc/usa/arduino-yun-rev-2

Adafruit has the Metro M4 Express that is the same footprint as the UNO but with a SAMD21 which looks interesting.
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jomoenginer over 7 years ago in reply to shabaz

I believe the intent was to keep the UNO as an ATmega 8-bit based board since they have the Zero with the SAMD21 chip; given they intend to keep the Zero in production.
The ATmega4809 in the new UNO does have Configurable Custom Logic (CCL) which makes a bit more customizable:
https://hackaday.com/tag/atmega4809/

There is a Yun 2 that is listed as Coming Soon as well with a EAD of April 23rd. 2019 perhaps?.
https://store.arduino.cc/usa/arduino-yun-rev-2

Adafruit has the Metro M4 Express that is the same footprint as the UNO but with a SAMD21 which looks interesting.
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14rhb over 7 years ago in reply to jomoenginer

Hi Jon,

Those CCL (same as Configurable Logic Cell on the Microchip range) are really useful for doing a small amount of fast logic rather than having the MCU tied up or having to employ another IC. There is a good Microchip application note for using the logic to drive WS2812/Neopixel chains.

Rod
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