A value added product based on the Arduino Uno

[Karl W4KRL]

http://www.linear.com/solutions/1851

 

http://www.linear.com/solutions/Linduino

 

Linduino is Linear Technology's Arduino compatible development platform.
Linduino is a package; it is a complete solution. Linduino has a board, the
Linduino One. The Linduino One is a Arduino Uno compatible development
board, with a twist, it comes with a LTM2884 uModule that provides full USB
isolation. Even more importantly the board also comes with a 14 pin QuikEval
connector that allows the Linduino One to directly connect to hundreds of
LTC QuickEval compatible demo boards, already in existence.

However, the board is only part of Linduino. The real meat of Linduino is
not the demo board but the library of example firmware that comes backing
the One. The main goal of the Linduino program is to provide customers with
example firmware to help them interact with Linear Tech's parts. The
Linduino One is merely there to provide a consistent development platform
for the end customer. This library of code is intended to compile in any
standard C compiler, we have taken steps to try to make the examples as
portable as possible. As a matter of fact, the code is fully Arduino
compatible, so if you have a spare Arduino Uno and the will to solder a
couple of connections, you're already ready to play. The goal of this entire
package of goodies that we've built is to save time.

The idea is that a hardware engineer trying to interface a 24 bit ADC such
as the LTC2449 into his circuit is a couple clicks away from loading the
running, tested code into a microcontroller and talking to the part. Once
the engineer is done with their testing, the example code snippets that were
used can be ported over to the processor they are using for their end
product.  This should greatly shorten their development time.

On the flip side, a software guy wanting to add a voltage and temperature
monitor such as the LTC2991 to their system now has a consistent, known
working, hardware platform to test their code. They too can use the example
firmware to get it up and running, allowing them to reach their end goal
using simple modifications to the existing base code, instead of starting
from scratch, thereby shortening their development time as well.

 

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