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Breakout board for DE0-Nano FPGA development board

DE0-Nano is a great FPGA development and education board featuring the Altera Cyclone® IV 4C22 FPGA with 22,320 Logic elements (LEs), 594 Embedded memory (Kbits), 66 Embedded 18 x 18 multipliers, 4 General-purpose PLLs, and 153 Maximum FPGA I/O pins. Since not all of these I/O pins are used very often, Chris from PyroElectro has made his own expansion board for easy prototyping with DE0-Nano.

Breakout board for DE0-Nano

He designed a PCB for his breakout board that basically connects to the 2×20 pin headers on the DE0-Nano through an IDE cable and makes those I/O pins easily available for prototyping on breadboard.

MikroElektronika releases their latest universal development board that supports multiple microcontroller architectures

Mikroelektronika has released their latest version of universal development board, UNI-DS6, that supports eight different microcontrollers, namely PIC16F887, PIC18F8520, dsPIC30F6014A, Atmega128, CY8C27643, LPC2148, LPC2214, and AT89S8253. A separate mikroBoard for each of these microcontrollers are available, which can be inserted into the main development board so that you can perform experiments with your choice of microcontroller while the rest of the board remains the same. Each of the mikroBoards consists of an on-board programmer so no external programmer is required. The development board is fully featured with regulated power supply, external 12-bit ADC, USB-UART support, USB connector, serial EEPROM, standard LCD socket, GLCD with touch panel support, SD card slot, tons of LEDs and tact switches and many more.

MikroElektronika releases a new universal development board

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Experimental board for ATTiny2313

This is an experimental board for ATTiny2313 microcontroller that provides a 10-pin connector for in-circuit serial programming, and other header pins to access I/O pins. The AT2313 microcontroller runs on an external 10Mhz crystal. The board has a push button reset switch for resetting the microcontroller. The onboard regulator provides a +5V DC to the microcontroller. The board is also featured with a DB9 connector to communicate with a PC through RS232 port. The TTL to RS232 level translation is achieved through a MAX232 chip. The circuit for this board is very simple to build, and the PCB layout is also available. This is a good board for learning AVR microcontroller.

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