Seeking a Developer to Evaluate the Arduino Nano Matter

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Are you a Matter developer? We need your help! We need you to evaluate the new Arduino Nano Matter board. We’ll send you the hardware. We pay for everything. You get it keep it forever after you post a review.

Description

Nano Matter merges Arduino’s signature ease of use with with the powerful Silicon Labs® MGM240S, wrapping the best of two worlds into one of the smallest form factors currently on the market. Experimenting with Matter-compatible devices has never been easier!

With Nano Matter, makers – at all levels of expertise – can leverage the popular Matter IoT connectivity standard to build interactive solutions, upgrade previous Nano-based projects to fully function as smart home devices, and even experiment with protocols like Zigbee® and OpenThread.

Benefits

  • Matter-ready for quick prototyping, thanks to hardware support and a user-friendly software layer.
  • Based on the MGM240SD22VNA from Silicon Labs, a 32-bit Arm® Cortex®-M33.
  • Secure VaultTm technology: enjoy industry-leading, state-of-the art security from Silicon Labs against escalating IoT threats.
  • Multiprotocol connectivity enables 802.15.4 (Thread) and Bluetooth® Low Energy
  • Nano-family compact size and pinout.
  • Debugging over USB via SWD interface: no external debugging probe needed!
  • Low energy consumption, designed for battery powered IoT devices.

Features

  • Microprocessor: MGM240SD22VNA (32-bit Arm® Cortex®-M33 with DSP instruction and FPU)
  • Connectivity: 802.15.4 (Thread), Bluetooth® Low Energy 5.3, Bluetooth® Mesh, Matter-ready Smart Home Connectivity
  • Memory: 1536 kB Flash, 256 kB RAM
  • USB Connector: USB-C®
  • Security: Secure VaultTm High
  • Debugging: Over USB
  • UART: 2
  • I2C: 2
  • SPI: 2
  • Digital I/O: 22
  • Analog Inputs: 20 (12 bits resolution)
  • DAC: 4 (8-12 bits resolution)
  • PWM pins: 22 (A maximum of 5 pins simultaneously)
  • External interrupts: Available within all Digital pins
  • User Interface: On-board RGB LED, User pushbutton
  • Circuit operating voltage: 3.3 V
  • Input Voltage (VIN): 5 V
  • Source Current per I/O Pin: 40 mA
  • Sink Current per I/O Pin: 28 mA
  • Clock Speed: 78 MHz
  • Antenna On-board: 2.4 GHz

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RoadTester Instructions

  • The preferred way to test it would be to use it with something you are currently working on.
  • Otherwise, working with the documentation, open the box and test the out of the box experience. Show the reader of this review what you discovered utilizing text, images, videos, and/or any other media, so the reader understands what is involved in using the product.

Important Dates

Begin enrollment

Jan 10, 2025

End enrollment

Feb 13, 2025

Select RoadTesters

Feb 16, 2025

Ship unit

TBD

Begin RoadTesting

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element14 followup

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Terms and Conditions

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About the Sponsor

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  • Presumably you will need your own Matter hub to talk to this module?

  • I asked about your question regarding a Matter hub. This is the answer I received:

    It seems RPI can also be used as a Matter hub:

    https://docs.silabs.com/matter/1.0.4/matter-thread/raspi-img#:~:text=The%20Matter%20Hub%20consists%20of,Card%20for%20the%20Raspberry%20Pi

    https://community.arm.com/arm-community-blogs/b/internet-of-things-blog/posts/build-a-matter-home-automation-service-using-raspberry-pi-arm-virtual-hardware-and-python

    Alexa Echo/Dot and Google home devices support matter devices:

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=TSWevY1sX8ADH2LC20

    https://support.google.com/googlenest/answer/13127223?hl=en


    Will that do or you are after any Hub solutions for designing?

  • I tried silabs' solution for Raspberry Pi and it seems to work, but I don't have any Matter devices to test right now.

    https://docs.silabs.com/matter/1.0.4/matter-thread/raspi-img

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  • In addition to the Raspberry Pi, this solution requires a Radio Co-Processor (RCP). An Arduino Nano Matter can be used in this role to act as a USB-OpenThread bridge for a Raspberry Pi running OTBR (OpenThread Border Router) software.

    Furthermore, the road tester will also need another Arduino Nano Matter to implement and test a Matter device. This second Arduino Nano Matter will be the actual device that communicates and interacts within the Matter network.

    https://github.com/SiliconLabs/arduino/blob/main/libraries/Matter/readme.md

    Therefore, to follow this approach, a road tester would need two Arduino Nano Matter devices and a Raspberry Pi 4

    (Edited for better readability)

  • Thanks for checking  .

    I don't think it is a show stopper, I just wanted members to be aware that they will need to supply a Matter hub.

    As you point out, there are lots of ways to get a hub setup and many members will already have a hub or an RPi to get started on setting up a hub.

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  • Thanks for checking  .

    I don't think it is a show stopper, I just wanted members to be aware that they will need to supply a Matter hub.

    As you point out, there are lots of ways to get a hub setup and many members will already have a hub or an RPi to get started on setting up a hub.

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