We are excited to present Cerb40 II, which replaces the original Cerb40. The new revision includes a 3.3 V regulator and the 32 kHz RTC crystal on-board. This allows developers to plug a USB cable in and begin programming without adding any additional circuitry!
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Weāve also added other modules, such as the Radio FM1 Module, Accel G248, Power Extender Module, and many more. Our new Latest Products RSS feed is an excellent resource to help you keep track of new releases. They are also listed on the catalogās home page.
As for File System related products, ALFAT USB is now available to extend ALFATās family and replace uALFAT-USB. This brings USB storage with a Microsoft-licensed Long File Name support to any product with SPI, UART or I2C bus.
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I really like the onboard regulator as an option on the Cerb40 IIā¦ great for breadboarding. Will the original Cerb40 stay in the catalog? I see itās still there but out of stock (likely because of the great sale price).
Thatās a pretty bold statement. Itās āneededā in the aspect that the product description said āThis board is ideal for low-production run and for easy prototypingā¦ use FEZ Cerb40 to live permanently in a product.ā
So those who designed a product around it, donāt need RTC, and designed a PCB with on-board regulation might like the option of the original.
@ FireyFate - For those rare cases, we can always special run some of the old board As for most cases, if not all, the new board will work for their needs. It added features, not removed.
Maybe it would fit using SMT pins instead of PTH? I dunno. Iāve never needed the crypto, but I can see the advantages in some applications, especially if NETMF had support for it.
@ gus - yes what godefro said, to have the crypto accelerator
@ godefroi - yes, the crypto. Iām often needing it to signatures/hmac/etc. even aside from speed, itās handy just to have an implementation on hand to save the flash space.
@ justin - I donāt think you donāt need to go to 100 pin. STM32F415RGT6 is 64 pin, and pin compatible with the '405, so no hardware design change; which makes sense when you think about it since from the outside the crypto is an instruction set feature
anyhow, I expect to have mine today, and I certainly second valkyries joy with the rtc; no more expensive ds1307 (and using an i2c at that, and the board space), yay!
@ justin, np; truly, just now Iād buy some boards with /no/ cpu and install my own 415 haha, at least to have something on which to develope some codeā¦
hmm, not sure I know what an āoctoā is in this context, or if Justin would want me to put something on his, but if it means desoldering, I did just successfully remove a dead 405 off a (different model) board and it looks pretty good, so I ordered some 415s to try a transplant. weāll see how it goes; Robert J White, eat your heart out! haha.
anyway, I think Iāve derailed this product announcement thread long enough. irrespective of the crypto feature, Iām excited with the product offering, and itās a great value and form factor ā so happy coding shall surely lie ahead!
but ps do consider the 415 in the futureā¦
EDIT: i did successfully rebrain the other board with a 415 cpu that arrived today, so later I may try modding one of the two cerb40ii I have ā but first Iām struggling with installing the stock firmware just nowā¦