Industrial Control Unit Draws Little Power
Arduino Prois set to launch a new member of the Portenta product family, with the Portenta Machine Control - a fully-centralized, low-power, industrial control unit capable of driving industrial equipment and machinery. What’s more, users can program it using the Arduino framework or other embedded development platforms.
The control platform adds Industrial IoT capabilities to standalone machinery and enables the collection of real-time data from the factory floor. Moreover, machinery can be accessed remotely from the cloud if needed. The Portenta Machine Control unit is outfitted with a TMicro STM32H747XI MCU with a Cortex-M7 processor, 8 Mb SDRAM, and 16 Mb of QSPI NOR Flash. Among the host of ports and connectors are 8x digital inputs and outputs, 3x analog inputs, a series of terminal blocks, 12x programmable digital I/Os, and more.
