Teensy 3.6 Development Board

The Teensy is a feature-rich development board that fits into a tiny package and is suitable for use with a breadboard. Every Teensy 3.6 is pre-flashed with a bootloader, eliminating the need for an external programmer since you can program it via the onboard USB connection. You can either install the Teensyduino add-on for the Arduino IDE and build Arduino sketches for the Teensy, or you can program for it using C in your preferred program editor.

The Teensy is an excellent choice for USB-MIDI and other HID projects since its CPU can imitate any type of USB device that you require. It also has access to the USB. A few more capabilities that the 32-bit, 180MHz processor offers are numerous channels of Direct Memory Access, several high-resolution ADCs, and even an I2S digital audio interface. In addition, there is a delay timer and four independent interval timers. Every digital pin is 3.3V tolerant and capable of interrupting.

With all solder points on a 0.1′′ grid, all of this functionality is crammed onto a 62.3mm by 18.0mm board, making it easy to assemble on a breadboard and get to work. Because of its integrated micro SD card connector, the Teensy 3.6 and its twin, the Teensy 3.5, are bigger, faster, and able to handle more complicated applications. The main new features of this “teensy” board include an updated ARM Cortex MCU (180MHz from 72MHz), more memory (1M from 256K), additional RAM, EEPROM, and accessible pins. Although the Teensy 3.6 is priced pricier than the Teensy 3.5, it is marginally more advanced.

Pinout:

1. 180 MHz ARM Cortex-M4 with Floating Point Unit
2. 1M Flash, 256K RAM, 4K EEPROM
3. Microcontroller Chip MK66FX1M0VMD18
4. USB High Speed (480Mbit/sec) Port
5. 2 CAN Bus Ports
6. 32 General Purpose DMA Channels
7. 22 PWM Outputs
8. 4 I2C Ports
9. 11 Touch-Sensing Inputs
10. 62 I/O Pins (42 breadboards friendly)
11. 25 Analog Inputs to 2 ADC with 13-bit resolution
12. 2 Analog Outputs (DAC) with 12-bit resolution
13. USB Full Speed (12Mbit/sec) Port
14. Ethernet mac, capable of full 100Mbit/sec speed
15. Native (4-bit SDIO) micro SD card port
16. I2S Audio Port, 4-Channel Digital Audio Input & Output
17. 14 Hardware Timers
18. Cryptographic Acceleration Unit
19. Random Number Generator
20. CRC Computation Unit
21. 6 Serial Ports (2 with FIFO and Fast Baud Rates)
22. 3 SPI Ports (1 with FIFO)
23. Real-Time Clock
24. 62.3mm x 18.0mm x 4.2mm (2.5in x 0.7in x 0.2in)