PGA and MCU possess array of robust hardware in small form factor board

Mouser now stocks the MKR VIDOR 4000 development board from Arduino. The MKR VIDOR 4000 allows engineers to create their controller board, possessing an array of robust hardware plus Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity as well as an Intel Cyclone ten FPGA and Microchip SAM D21 microcontroller. The Arduino MKR VIDOR 4000 includes an Intel Cyclone 10 FPGA with 16K logic elements and 504Kbytes of embedded RAM, plus a 32-bit Microchip SAM D21 Arm Cortex-M0+ microcontroller with 256Kbytes of flash memory and 32Kbytes of SRAM. The board also offers a 2Mbyte QSPI flash chip, 8Mbytes of SDRAM, and 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi and dual-mode Bluetooth 4.2 connectivity. Other board features include a Mini PCI Express connector with up to 25 user-programmable pins, MIPI camera connector, and a Micro HDMI connector. The highly configurable and powerful board offers 56 18-bit x 18-bit hardware multipliers for high-speed DSP applications. The FPGA pins can toggle up to 150MHz and can also be configured as common communications ports such as UART, I²C, and SPI, making it perfect for audio and video processing. The device also incorporates a Microchip ECC608 CryptoAuthentication IC, which couples world-class hardware-based key storage with hardware cryptographic accelerators to implement various authentication and encryption protocols. The device uses the Arduino MKR form factor and pinout on the standard analog and digital pins, allowing engineers to add shields and accessories designed for the other MKR boards.