It just been officially announced on the Netduino forum the release of the new version of the base of the SecretLabs boards : the Netduino 2 !

After the release of the second version of the board that has Ethernet connectivity and microSD onboard, the Netduino Plus 2, the entry-level version board has a successor even more powerful.

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Microprocessor and memory

Following the same line of Netduino Plus 2, the microprocessor is completely different from that of its predecessor, in fact it is a STM32F2 (from STMicroelectronics) based on architecture Cortex-M3 to 120MHz in place of an Atmel ARM7 to 48 Mhz. The jump of memory is amazing! The amount of available RAM is 60 KB and for Flash the amount available to our application goes from 128 to 192 KB.

Input and Output

The board provides 22 GPIO pins (compared to 20 above), part of which have the following features:

  • 6 PWM;
  • 4 UART;
  • SPI interface;
  • I2C interface;

In addition, there are 6-channel ADC with a resolution of 12 bits (rather than 10-bit).

Storage

Obviously, this version does not have a onboard storage but with a suitable shield you can add a microSD up to 2 GB.

For all detailed specifications, refer to the page on the official website.