This is the third in a four part series on the ARM® Wall of Boards at Embedded World 2016.
Today, I’ll present the 40 plus ARM mbed Enabled™ boards we have on the wall this year. If you’re not yet familiar with the ARM mbed™ IoT Device Platform, head over to mbed.com and check it out. ARM mbed provides an operating system, cloud services, tools and developer ecosystem to support creation and deployment of commercial IoT at scale. There has been a lot going on with mbed over the past year, highlighted by the release of the Technology Preview version of mbed OS at ARM Techcon 2015. There’s much more to come, but for now I had a brief chat with Phill Smith ( phillsmith), Senior Marketing Manager:
Eric: 44 mbed enabled boards! Is that all of them, and what does that say about the mbed ecosystem?
Phill: This is just a small selection of boards chosen to show the diversity of our silicon ecosystem and some of the connectivity technologies now supported by mbed. If you attended ARM TechCon there was a similar display which hosted over 80 different mbed Enabled boards. With new partners regularly joining the ecosystem, including cloud, silicon and general ecosystem partnerships, the list of hardware supported is constantly increasing. For an up to date list of mbed supported hardware please have a look at our ever expanding platforms page (https://developer.mbed.org/platforms/).
Eric: If I look at the mbed Partnership page, I see a lot more than just chip companies – where do some of these other partners come into the mbed story?
Phill: The Internet of Things requires more than just chips, it consists of everything from edge node devices through to cloud services. mbed partners include companies in the cloud, silicon and wider IoT ecosystem to provide a complete IoT offering to developers. This complete end-to-end approach, with secure managed low power devices, gateways, connectivity services and cloud analytics provided by partners, helps accelerate product development and time to market. By including a wide spectrum of partners in the mbed Enabled program our developers are able to choose the optimal components for their end products.
Eric: Where is the mbed Enabled program going? Is it still just boards?
Phill: The mbed Enabled program is designed to ensure products carrying the badge have met our quality standards. Developers and consumers can rely on this badge with confidence. All mbed Enabled products are compatible and have been through rigorous testing. The mbed Enabled designation can be applied to any partner products including development boards, components, all the way through to commercial end products.
Advantech Wise-1520
NXP LPC11U24
U-blox ODIN-W2
MultiTech MultiConnect mDot
Delta DFCM-NNN40
Espotel ELMO
WIZnet WIZwiki-W7500P
ST Discovery L053C8
ST Discovery F746NG
ST Discovery L476VG
BBC micro:bit
Maxim Integrated MAXWSNENV
ST Nucleo F103RB
Nordic nRF51 Dongle
Nordic nRF51-DK
Silicon Labs EFM32 Giant Gecko
Silicon Labs EFM32 Wonder Gecko
SwitchScience mbed HRM1017
seeed studio Tiny BLE
RedBearLab BLE Nano
NXP LPCXpresso 1549
ST Seeed Arch Max
Renesas GR-PEACH
NXP LPCXpresso 11U68
U-blox C027
Minewtech i6 Beacon
JK Soft Wallbot BLE
Outrageous Circuits mBuino Development Board
Nordic Smart Beacon Kit
NXP LPC1768
seeed studio ARCH - BLE
seeed studio Seeeduino-Arch-Pro
mbed 6LoWPAN Gateway
mbed 6LoWPAN Shield
ST Nucleo F401RE
MultiTech MultiConnect Dragonfly
NXP FRDM-KL25Z
NXP FRDM-K64F
RedBearLab nRF51822
Silicon Labs Happy Gecko
Nordic nRF51822-mKIT
SwitchScience mbed TY51822r3
ST Nucleo F411RE