Future Technology Devices Vinculo development platform

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Future Technology Devices has available Vinculo, an embedded development platform inspired by the Arduino Duemilanove/Uno.

The platform allows designers to integrate USB 2.0 interfacing by incorporating FTDI’s Vinculum II VNC2-64 dual-channel host/slave controller with the capability of interfacing to the growing range of I/O application boards (shields) developed by the Arduino open-source community.

The VNC2 combines a 16-bit/48 MHz CPU core, 256 KB of flash memory and 16 KB of SRAM memory and provides support for external UART, FIFO, PWM, GPIO and SPI slave/master interfaces.

The platform brings together all the hardware and software needed for development of innovative, cost-effective embedded systems.

The module also integrates an eight-channel, 10-bit analog-to-digital converter and supports 38 general-purpose input/output connections, and USB A and mini B (host and device) connectors.

The onboard ADC simplifies connection to sensors, actuators and other analog devices and, in conjunction with the PWM interface on the VNC2, allows Vinculo to control many analog systems. Existing I/O boards (shields) can connect to the Vinculum II VNC2 via the GPIO connections.

The Vinculo programming language uses a subset of standard ANSII ‘C’ with FTDI supported, free software development tools, libraries and reference designs. The ‘Proto’ board allows designers to create their own shields. LEDs, connectors and other components are provided ready for assembly onto the prototyping board.