![]() We’ve seen the ~F4 chip pump out 800×600 VGA, drive a thermal imaging camera, and put OpenCV inside a webcam. This chip was incredibly powerful in its time, and is still a respectable choice for any application that needs a lot of horsepower, but not a complete Linux system. The previous go-to part from the ST catalog was the STM32F4, an extremely powerful chip based on the ARM Cortex M4 processor. It was announced last year, but ST is finally rolling out the STM32F7, the first microcontroller in production that is based on the ARM Cortex-M7. Posted in Microcontrollers Tagged arm, ARM Cortex-M7, Atmel, microchip, rad hard If you’ve ever wanted to build something that goes to space, and you’d like to over-engineer everything about it, you now have the option for an ARM Cortex-M7. Of course, there are very, very, very few people who would actually ever need a rad-hard microcontroller I would honestly expect this to be relevant to only one or two people reading this, and they too probably got the press release. Microchip has an incredible number of space-rated, rad-hard hardware this is mostly due to their acquisition of Atmel a few years ago, and yes, it absolutely is possible to build a rad-hard Arduino Mega using the chip, space rated. This chip does it in space, and comes in a ceramic quad flat package with gold lead frames. Peripherals include CAN-FD and Ethernet-AVB, analog front-end controllers, and the usual support for I2C, SPI, and other standards. The new devices are the SAMV71Q21RT (radiation-tolerant) and the SAMRH71 (rad-hard), both ARM Cortex-M7 chips running at around 300 MHz with enough RAM to do pretty much anything you would want to do with a microcontroller. ![]() Microchip has just announced the release of two micros that meet this spec, in both radiation-tolerant and radiation-hardened varieties. Deep space? That’s a little harder, and you might need to look into radiation tolerant and radiation hardened microcontrollers. If you’re building an experiment for the ISS, just use any old microcontroller. If you’re building a cubesat, great, just grab a microcontroller off the shelf, you probably don’t need to worry about radiation hardening. With increased competition from other low-cost microcontrollers, it seems that Arduino is looking to expand out of its comfort zone and find new revenue streams.Ĭontinue reading “New Part Day: Arduino Goes Pro With The Portenta H7” → Posted in Arduino Hacks, Hackaday Columns, hardware, News Tagged arduino, ARM Cortex-M4, ARM Cortex-M7, ces, eNUC, industrial components, javascript, portenta, python, STM32H7, USB Type-C With built-in wireless hardware and the ability to run Python and JavaScript out of the box, the powerful dual-core board comes with a similarly professional price tag currently for preorder at $99 USD a pop, the Portenta is priced well outside of the company’s traditional DIY and educational markets. While Arduino has been focused on the DIY and educational market since their inception, the newly unveiled Portenta H7 is designed for professional users who want to rapidly develop robust hardware suitable for industrial applications. But mixed in among flashy presentations from the electronics giants was a considerably more restrained announcement from a company near and dear to the readers of Hackaday: Arduino is going pro. Even a few electric vehicles snuck in there. There were new smartphones, TVs, and home automation devices from all the usual suspects. The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas is traditionally where the big names in tech show off their upcoming products, and the 2020 show was no different.
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