Shields


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Shield Design Guide

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    Many development boards for sensors and microcontrollers have adopted the Arduino Uno R3 header configuration. There are plenty of derivatives to this but some commonallity does exist. When designing a Shield whether it be for a MCU (target) or a sensor/radio/peripheral (device) using the following guidelines will ensure the most cross target compatibility.

    I2C – D14, D15 SPI – D10-D13 Serial – D0, D1 Analog – A1-A5 NOTE: Avoid A0, on other platforms this is a 32KHz clock

    Targets

    • Avoid wiring a single MCU pin to multiple breakout headers
    • SDK should resolve names to MCU specific pins (PinNames.h)
      • A0 ... A5
      • D0 ... D13
      • I2C_SCL ... I2C_SDA
    • Order of prescience for IO is 0 ... 13 (analog and digital). If not enough pins are available, connect starting at 0

    Devices

    • Provide a well documented C++ library for all on board components
    • Provide a well documented demo application that uses the provided libraries in a simple but meaningful way
    • Test you design on as many platforms as possible and document known incompatibilities. These should be the minority and easier to maintain
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