Prototype ultra-low-power solutions with Cypress’ FM0-100L-S6E1B8 starter kit, shipping from Mouser

Mouser Electronics Inc. is now stocking the FM0-100L-S6E1B8 Starter Kit from Cypress Semiconductor. This easy-to-use platform allows developers to design with and evaluate the FM0+ S6E1B-Series of ultra-low-power 32-bit microcontrollers. The S6E1B-Series microcontrollers are based on the 40-MHz ARM Cortex‑M0+ processor with 64-channel direct memory access (DMA), which consume just 65µA/MHz in active mode and include 560 KBytes of on-chip flash memory and 64 KBytes of SRAM. The kit enables rapid development of high-performance embedded systems using an Arduino Uno-compatible interface to connect to Arduino shields for low-cost hardware expansion and application development.

The Cypress FM0-100L-S6E1B8 Starter Kit, available from Mouser Electronics, includes the S6E1B8 Starter board, a quick start guide, and a USB-A to micro-B cable. The board includes 82 general-purpose inputs and outputs (GPIOs) plus peripherals such as a Micro SD card interface, headphone and microphone jacks, accelerometer, potentiometer, RGB LED, and user button. In addition to the Arduino Uno-compatible headers, the board features 32 “free” pin headers for accessing more pins and peripherals, such as multifunction serial (MFS) interface, base timers, PWM, and a 12-bit analog-to-digital converter (ADC). 

For communication, the onboard S6E1B8 microcontroller offers USB host and device, UART, CSIO (SPI), I² C, and I² S interfaces. Additionally, engineers can program and debug the microcontroller via a CMISI-DAP JTAG emulator or by connecting to an external JTAG emulator. The S6E1B8 microcontroller comes preprogrammed with an interactive application to test all of the onboard features using a virtual communication port to send message prompts, input test parameters, and output test results. 

To learn more, visit http://www.mouser.com/new/Cypress-Semiconductor/cypress-fm0-100l-s6e1b8-kit/.