SOMERVILLE, MA and SAN JOSE, CA -- Arduino LLC and Atmel Corporation announced the latest development board, Arduino Zero.
Arduino Zero is a simple, elegant and powerful 32-bit extension of the platform established by Arduino UNO. The Zero board aims to provide creative individuals with the potential to realize truly innovative ideas for smart IoT devices, wearable technology, high-tech automation, robotics and projects not yet imagined. The board is powered by Atmel's SAMD21 MCU, which features a 32-bit ARM Cortex® M0+ core.
"The Zero board expands the Arduino family by providing increased performance to fuel the creativity of the maker community," said Massimo Banzi, Arduino co-founder and CEO. "The flexible feature set enables endless project opportunities for devices and acts as a great educational tool for learning about 32-bit application development."
"Leveraging more than 15 years of experience since the inception of AVR, simplicity and ease-of-use have been at the core of Atmel's technology," said Reza Kazerounian, senior vice president and general manager, microcontroller business unit at Atmel. "Atmel is pleased to see the continued growth of the global maker community stemming from the increasing access and availability to open source platforms such as Arduino. We enable makers, but the power lies within the makers themselves."
The first prototypes of Arduino Zero will be on display at Maker Faire Bay Area 2014 in San Mateo on May 17 and 18 at the following booths:
•Arduino Booth: #204
•Atmel Booth: #205
•ARM Booth: #405
Arduino Zero
The Arduino Zero board features the Atmel SAMD21 Microcontroller, with 256kb of flash and 32kb SRAM in a TQFP package. Compatible with 3.3V Shield that conform to the Arduino R3 Layout, development with the Arduino Zero using the Arduino programming language is fully supported through a custom developed software library, integrated in the Arduino development environment.
The Arduino Zero board also features flexible peripherals and Atmel's Embedded Debugger (EDBG), which provides a full debug interface on the SAMD21 without the need for additional hardware, significantly increasing the ease-of-use for software debugging. EDBG also supports a virtual COM port that can be used for device programming and traditional Arduino boot loader functionality.
For more information on the Zero board, please visit Arduino's website. For more information on Atmel's AVR and MCU ARM-based solutions, please visit the product page at http://www.atmel.com/products/microcontrollers/arm/sam-d.aspx and datasheet page at http://www.atmel.com/Images/Atmel-42181-SAM-D21_Datasheet.pdf
For more info, go to http://www.arduino.cc and http://www.atmel.com