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The Arduino Due is the newcomer microcontroller board in the Arduino boards family. It's the first board based on a 32 bit ARM core processor, the Atmel SAM3X8E ARM Cortex-M3 MCU, that improve all the standard Arduino functionalities and add more new features.
Features:
- 54 digital input/output pins (of which 16 can be used as PWM outputs, with selectable resolution)
- 12 analog inputs with 12 bit of resolution
- 4 UARTs (hardware serial ports)
- 2 DAC outputs (digital to analog converter)
- 84 MHz crystal oscillator
- 2 USB connections
- 1 power jack
- 1 ICSP header
- 1 JTAG header
- 1 reset button
Note: The maximum voltage that the I/O pins can provide or tolerate is 3.3V. Providing higher voltages, like 5V to an input pin could damage the board.
The Due has two usb connectors, the one with the micro-usb B connector is the native one capable to act as an usb host, that means you can connect compatible external usb peripherals to the board, such as mouse, keyboards, smartphones. While the other ubs port with the type A connector is intended for debugging purposes.
ARM Core benefits:
The Due has a 32-bit ARM core that can outperform typical 8-bit microcontroller boards. The most significant differences are:
- A 32-bit core, that allows operations on 4 bytes wide data within a single CPU clock. (for more information look at the int type page).
- CPU Clock at 84Mhz
- 96 KBytes of SRAM
- 512 KBytes of Flash memory for code
- a DMA controller, that can relieve the CPU from doing memory intensive tasks.
Specifications:
- Microcontroller: AT91SAM3X8E
- Operating Voltage: 3.3V
- Input Voltage (recommended): 7-12V
- Input Voltage (limits): 6-20V
- Digital I/O Pins: 54 (of which 16 provide PWM output)
- Analog Input Pins: 12
- Analog Outputs Pins: 2 (DAC)
- Total DC Output Current on all I/O lines 130 mA
- DC Current for 3.3V Pin: 800 mA
- DC Current for 5V Pin: theoretical 1A, realistic 800 mA
- Flash Memory: 512 KB all available for the user applications
- SRAM: 96 KB (64 + 32 KB)
- DataFlash: 2 Mbit (250 KB)
- Clock Speed: 84 MHz
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