Linduino

Linduino is Linear Technology’s Arduino compatible system for developing and distributing firmware libraries and example code for Linear Technology’s integrated circuits. The code is designed to be highly portable to other microcontroller platforms, and is written in C using as few processor specific functions as possible. The code libraries can be downloaded by clicking the Downloads tab above and used as-is in your project or individual code snippets may be viewed in the Code section of a supported part. The Linduino One board (Demonstration Circuit DC2026) allows you to test out the code directly, using the standard demo board for the particular IC.

The Linduino One board is compatible with the Arduino Uno, using the Atmel ATMEGA328 processor. This board features a 14-pin “QuikEval” connector that can be plugged into nearly 100 daughter boards for various Linear Technology parts, including Analog to Digital converters, Digital to Analog Converters, high-voltage power monitors, temperature measurement devices, RF synthesizers, battery stack monitors, and more.

An LTM2884 USB Isolator breaks the ground connection to the PC, allowing projects to operate at a different ground potential than the computer that is controlling it.

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.


More information and free download available here: Linduino.


Source: Linear Technology.