User Manual

P A G E 12
F u s i o n f o r A R M v 8 M a n u a l
CONNECTIVITY
Connectivity
One of the key features of the Fusion for ARM v8 development board is its connectivity.
It features a diverse amount of connecting options, making the board very versatile, adaptable to any situation, and
very easy to work with.
It has two display connectors (1x16 LCD connector and 2x20 display connector), Ethernet, USB-UART, USB HOST/
DEVICE, an external programmer/debugger connector and many more. The PORT I/O section is the most distinctive
connectivity option, which takes up the entire lower half of the board. It allows direct connection to the available MCU
pins. This section also contains LEDs for visual indication of pin states, BUTTONS for applying the desired logic states
to the pins, and DIP switches for configuring pull-up or pull-down resistors.
All the LEDs, buttons, and headers are logically organized and grouped as PORTS, following the pin organization
topology of the MCU.
The presence of five standardized mikroBUS
™
sockets is something that makes the Fusion for ARM v8 development
board very special: the world of Click boards
™
is now just under your fingertips. By combining up to 5 different Click
boards
™
, virtually an unlimited number of combinations is possible, considering the fact that the Click board
™
repository already has several hundreds of various Click boards
™
, with more added on a daily basis. Tight integration
of the Fusion for ARM v8 board with the whole Mikroe ecosystem, allows seamless and effortless prototyping, and truly
rapid embedded application development. For more info about the mikroBUS
™
standard and the Click board
™
line of
products, please visit the official Mikroe web page at www.mikroe.com
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