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What is the Azure Sphere?
The Azure Sphere is a 3-part solution to create highly-secured, connected MCU powered devices.
Security in the MCU
Security in the OS
Security in the cloud
Secured from the silicon up. This new crossover class of MCUs now combines both real-time and application processors with built-in Microsoft security technology and connectivity.
An OS purpose built for security and agility to create a trustworthy platform for new IoT experiences. A secured OS builds security innovations pioneered in Windows into an HLOS small enough for MCUs.
Protect devices with a cloud built for IoT security. The Azure Sphere Security Service renews device security, identifies emerging threats, and brokers trust among device, cloud, and other endpoints.
Make your existing IoT projects safer and more secure.
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Avnet Azure Sphere Development Kit Specs
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Carrier Board
- Two MikroE Click board expansion sockets
- Grove expansion connector (I2C)
- Onboard sensors:
- 3-Axis accelerometer
- 3-Axis Gyro
- Temperature
- Pressure/Barometric
- Ambient Light
- Interface for optional OLED 128x64 display
- USB Interface
- Supports debug, service & recovery
- UARTs, and JTAG
- User pushbutton switches and LEDs
- 5V to 3.3V Power regulation
- DC Supply Input:
- USB 5V from the host computer
- Terminal footprints for external 5V DC and VBAT supplies
Azure Sphere Module
- Arm Cortex-A7 application processor SoC
- 3x ISU interfaces configured for UART, SPI, I2C
- ADC/GPIO: 3x 12-bit ADC inputs (or 3 GPIOs)
- PWM/GPIO: 9x PWM outputs (or up to 24 GPIOs)
- RTC (requires VBAT supply)
- Dual-band 2.4/5GHz 802.11 a/b/g/n Wi-Fi
- Dual-band 2.4/5GHz chip antenna
Compatible with Mikroe Click Boards™
Easily expand the capabilities of your Azure Sphere kit. Learn how to implement Mikroe Click Boards™ with your Azure Sphere kit here.
UV Click
DC Motor 3 Click
OLED B Click Display
Warns you of excesive ultraviolet radiation levels.
Add-on board capable of outputting currents of up to 3.5 A with 30V, making it suitable for high-power motors.
Carries a 96 x 39px blue monochrome passive matrix OLED display.
BLE 3 Click
NFC Click
4X4 RGB Click
Adds Bluetooth Low Energy to your project. It also comes with an integrated antenna mounted on the PCB.
Add contactless payment systems, electronic ticketing, smartcards and more to your project.
Matrix of 16 "intelligent" RGB elements, forming a 4x4 display screen.
Solar Energy Click
Relay Click
Heart Rate 4 Click
An all-in-one battery charger and solar energy harvester.
Can control power to small home appliances, lights, or power on the entire embedded system.
Carries a high-sensitivity pulse oximeter and heart-rate sensor.
Air Quality 2 Click
ETH Click
Touchkey 2 Click
Measures VOC levels and provides CO2 equivalent and TVOC equivalent predictions.
Features a 28-pin, 10BASE-T stand alone Ethernet Controller.
Contains four capacitive pads powered by Microchip's ATtiny817.
Haptic Click
Charger Click
DIGI POT 2 Click
Carries DRV2605, a Haptic Driver for ERM and LRA vibration motors.
Carries both a battery charger controller and a battery charge monitor, along with a battery connector.
Add-on board with a single channel digital potentiometer TPL0501 with 256 wiper positions.
Future-proof your IoT products with three layers of security.
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