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What Are Your Most Popular Dev Kits or Reference Design Kits?

rscasny

I was asked this question the other day. What Are Your Most Popular Dev Kits or Reference Design Kits? On impulse, I would venture to say the Raspberry Pi, Beaglebone. I'm sure there are others. Sensor kits, FPGA kits, Motor Contr0ol kits, Power kits, come to mind, but I'm not sure which ones element14 would consider "popular."

So, I figured I would ask you.  What are your most popular kits?  If you have the time, please leave a comment below. 

Thanks

Randall Scasny

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  • I'll answer a different question: which dev kits are the least popular for me.

    I am not a fan of a development kit with many headers with nothing to connect to. For example, there might be a connector for an "external display" or "camera," but no products on the market fit those connections. (Or maybe there used to be, but now they are no longer offered.) It is nice if the vendor provides those accessories, but it is also annoying when there is only one option--why not just include it in the kit then?

    Related, it is also very frustrating when a dev board has "custom" connectors to access some of its signals. I put custom in quotes because, technically, they are available, but they are not a part that is normally stocked at distributors. So even making your own board to plug into it becomes an instant hassle and relatively expensive.

    Out of fairness, I'll not mention the vendor who has done this on several of their recent products.

    Sometimes, it seems like the product manager (or the engineers) do not take a step back and think about how a user NEW to their platform can make use of it.

  • in reply to baldengineer

    Look at Renesas EK-RA boards. These boards have Arduino header, PMOD, QUIIC, MikroE and Grove connectors. Additionaly they exposed all the pins from MCU, so some of pins are exposed several times which is nice for connecting logic analyzer. At last, Renesas makes PMOD boards with their sensors, Wi-Fi/BLE modules, LTE module, ....

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  • in reply to baldengineer

    Look at Renesas EK-RA boards. These boards have Arduino header, PMOD, QUIIC, MikroE and Grove connectors. Additionaly they exposed all the pins from MCU, so some of pins are exposed several times which is nice for connecting logic analyzer. At last, Renesas makes PMOD boards with their sensors, Wi-Fi/BLE modules, LTE module, ....

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