Great heart for your inventions!
Your creations need a cutting edge, powerful, and fast-beating heart. The microcontroller that will bring your projects to life is an STM32 ARM Cortex M4 by ST.
All the features that make this chip great, will push your inventions to the max, for a long-lasting fun developing and making.
What are you waiting for? Start having fun today!
The ArcadeIT! development system is based on the A103-Motherboard that mounts a microcontroller ARM Cortex M4 by ST: the STM32F469.
This MCU has many peripherals that have been organized in separated ports that commonly are present in gaming systems. ArcadeIT! is more than a simple embedded system, in fact, its special architecture follows the same of the arcade machines providing a system bus with address/data lines and control signals.
All ports can be connected to common electronics boards available in the market, or you can design and develop yours by following the hardware specifics provided. In every kit, there are several specific module boards designed for the ArcadeIT! to use in your project, so that you will be able to expand it quickly to the max.
The ArcadeIT! development system has been equipped with several ports dedicated to I/O, audio, video, peripherals and expansions. It embeds a 16MiB SDRAM also. The SDK includes all the drivers needed by these ports with the proper documentation about their signals and use.
PORT N: Power port that provides the power to the board from external supply.
PORT M: Battery port for Real Time Clock.
PORT L: Reset port used to connect a button and reset the board.
PORT K: ST-LINK/JTAG for programming the firmware.
PORT G: Expansion (I/O System bus with 22-bit Address lines, 8-bit Data lines, control lines).
PORT A: Video VGA/RGB port (12-bit used for color depth, and 2 separated H/V synchronization signals).
PORT C/D: LCD1/2 ports (Fast parallel LCD interface with 8-bit data bus).
PORT H: Audio port (Audio DAC output with shut-down switch).
PORT J: Serial port (USART port for serial communications).
PORT I: I2C port.
PORT E: USB port (OTG supported).
PORT B: SD-Card port (SD-Card is used in SPI mode).
PORT F: Parallel port (8-bit data port plus 2 control lines and an acknowledgment signal).
