Latest micro controller MCU development boards

Embedded system design has never been so easy before. Today embedded system ecosystem offers easy access to development boards and most important feature is embedded software support. The prototyping scenario has seen an escalation and one of the biggest factors is the range of microcontroller (MCU) development boards out there in the market. From low cost micro controller development boards to powerful application specific ones, with new features things are available.

Quite a few development boards in the market are general Micro controller MCU specific, such as STM32 discovery kits, MSP430 from Texas instruments or Xplained boards from Atmel. Local companies design some of the economically available micro controller boards. In both cases MCU development boards come in two flavours; one is the MCU evaluation board, where the focus is on evaluating MCU Capabilities. Second category is application of feature specific, where the board is desingned for the purpose of evaluating certain features of the MCU and is usually focussed on some application area.

Broadly there are 3 different categories of Micro controller boards: Generic multi-purpose Boards; Today every MCU manufacturer like Microchip, NXP, Cypress, TI and Atmel provide and evaluation kit compatible with their microcontrollers. Manufacturers like Arduino, Sparkfun, Adafruit, Mikroelectronika are popular among students and professionals.

Development boards for Microcontrollers based on AVR, PIC, 8051 and ARM7 architectures are very popular among students and beginners as these are easily available in the local market. These come with a varying set of on board peripherals to suit a wide range of applications for every budget. MCU development platforms such as Arduino come with a host of free and open source libraries.

Application specific development boards: such boards are dedicated task oriented and mostly used by companies or engineers building specific products in areas such as home/industrial automation, automotive applications. These development boards allow to rapidly test the functionality of the microcontroller MCU as per the requirements before moving on to fabricating custom printed circuit boards.

Industry-ready development boards: advanced processing power boards based on ARM7 or ARM9 microcontroller architecture are used for industrial applications. These include cubietruck boards and dual core or quadrcore processors boards which are mostly used for media processing in applications like smart televisions, media centers and digital video recorders.

Different microcontrollers have varying features and the entire board is based on supported feature of the MCU. Primarily one looks at Microcontroller MCU boards for their processing and memory capability but nowadays most of these offer decent RAM and flash capabilities. 

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