AMAP1EVB, Eval board for Apollo Ultra-Low Power Microcontroller
The Apollo MCU Family is an ultra-low power, highly integrated microcontroller designed for battery-powered devices including wearable electronics, activity & fitness monitors and wireless sensors. By combining ultra-low power sensor conversions electronics with the powerful ARMCortex-M4 processor with Floating Point Unit (FPU), the Apollo MCU enables complex sensor processing tasks to be completed with unprecedented battery life. Weeks, months, and years of battery life are achievable while doing complex context detection, gesture recognition and activity monitoring. The Apollo MCU takes full advantage of Ambiq's patented Subthreshold Power Optimized Technology (SPOT) Platform, setting a new industry benchmark in low power design.
The Apollo MCU integrates up to 512KB of flash memory and 64 KB of RAM to accomodate radio and sensor overhead while still leaving plenty of space for application code. This microcontroller also includes serial master and UART ports for communicating with radios and sensors including accelerometers, gyroscopes and magnetometers.
The EVB has these additional features:
- Low power reference design
- Apollo1 MCU in the BGA package (APOLLO512-KBR)
- Multiple power/clock options
- Micro USB connector for power/download/debug
- Segger J-Link debugger
- Debugger-in / debugger-out ports
- Five user-controlled LEDs
- Three push buttons for application use, plus a reset push button
- Power slide switch with LED power indicator
- Five 8-12 pin Arduino-style headers for pin/power access to shield board(s)
- Multiple test points for power measurements
- CE Mark and RoHS compliant
