Boards and starter kits speed embedded designs

Micro-Robotics has designed a range of application boards and a complete starter kit for the new VM-1 credit-card-sized embedded control computer introduced earlier this year.

Micro-Robotics has designed a range of application boards and a complete starter kit for the new VM-1 credit-card-sized embedded control computer introduced earlier this year.

The VM-1 is used with Venom-SC, the latest version of the popular, object-oriented, control-system language first developed at Micro-Robotics, to handle analogue and digital I/O, graphical user interfaces, communication protocols, data and text files and numerous other functions.

One of the most important strengths of the VM-1 control system is the power and ease of use of the new Venom-SC software.

The application boards provide plug-in access to RS232 and RS485 serial ports, various analogue, digital and pulse I/O functions, keyboard and display interfaces for both graphic and alphanumeric displays; two I2C buses; Microwire/SPI and an EEPROM.

One of the application boards also doubles as a Flash programmer for duplicating the finished application or for updating the copy of Venom-SC.

To ensure rapid start-up of any design project, Micro-Robotics offers a VM-1 starter kit that includes a VM-1 control computer, Venom-SC Flash, clock chip, a VM-1 application board and 16-key keypad.

The starter kit also includes a 20 character by two line alphanumeric LCD, a serial lead and power supply.

Full documentation in electronic format and free technical support is supplied with all starter kits.

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