Curiosity Development Platform
Find out how easy it is to take your idea from concept to prototype. The customizable Curiosity Development Platform includes cost-effective Curiosity Nano boards and the Curiosity Nano Base for Click boards™ to provide you with an excellent starting point for creating innovative designs.
- Scalable: Pocket-sized Curiosity Nano boards offer all that you need to easily evaluate different microcontroller (MCU) architectures and features and to select the best platform for your embedded project
- Expandable: Compatible with every Curiosity Nano board with on-board mikroBUS™ sockets, the Curiosity Nano Base for Click boards enables you to add functionality quickly and effortlessly to your project using the vast selection of XPRO and Click extension boards
- Variety of Options to Satisfy Your Curiosity: Selection ranges from the basic Curiosity Nano to more advanced Curiosity boards to meet your application’s specific requirements, along with on-board debugging capabilities that simplify your development and save money
- Reduce Your Development Time: The Curiosity Development Platform is supported by a complete development system that includes the free MPLAB® X Integrated Development Environment (IDE), a functional safety qualified complier and MPLAB Harmony software development framework, as well as many more design resources
We deliver everything you need for rapid prototyping:
- Hardware and expansion boards to support system design
- Software tools and free software libraries for motor control, graphics and many other applications
- Ready to use, stand-alone application demo examples
Scalable
Because all Curiosity Nano boards offer the same design methodology and standardized features and interfaces, they are scalable across 8-bit, 16-bit and higher-performance 32-bit MCUs so you can easily evaluate these different architectures to find the best option for your project. Curiosity Nano boards also include on-board debugging and programming to simplify your development while saving you time and money.
SAM E51 Curiosity Nano Evaluation Kit
Part Number: EV76S68A
Power up your projects with our most versatile Arm® Cortex®-M4 based MCU. Featuring the SAM E51 family, this Curiosity Nano board provides I/O access to major peripherals including ADC, DAC, SERCOM, timers, Peripheral Touch Controller (PTC), USB and CAN FD.
SAM D21 Curiosity Nano Evaluation Kit
Part Number: DM320119
Take your next 32-bit embedded application from proof of concept to production with our low-cost Arm® Cortex® M0+ based SAM D21 Curiosity Nano Evaluation Kit.
PIC32CM MC00 Curiosity Nano Evaluation Kit
Part Number: EV10N93A
Take your next 32-bit embedded application from proof of concept to production with our 5V, low-cost Arm® Cortex®-M0+ based PIC32CM MC Curiosity Nano Evaluation Kit. |
PIC32CM JH01 Curiosity Nano+ Touch Evaluation Kit
Part Number: EV29G58A
The PIC32CM JH01 Curiosity Nano+ Touch Evaluation Kit (EV29G58A) is a hardware platform that contains a PIC32CM5164JH01048 microcontroller (MCU). It can be used as a stand-alone discovery platform or it may be combined with expansion boards for quick prototyping.
PIC32CM LS00 Curiosity Nano+ Touch Evaluation Kit
Part Number: EV41C56A
The PIC32CM LS00 Curiosity Nano+ Touch Evaluation Kit is a hardware platform to evaluate the PIC32CM5164LS00048 microcontroller. This board is supported by the MPLAB Integrated tools development environment and MPLAB Harmony.
Expandable
The flexible and reusable Curiosity Development Platform maximizes your tool investment. You can easily customize or expand your design with a vast array of MikroElektronika Click boards and our XPRO extension boards to add sensors, touch, interfaces, connectivity modules and more to your projects.
Variety of Options to Satisfy Your Curiosity
Ranging from the low-cost and basic 32-bit Curiosity Nano up to the Curiosity Ultra with more advanced on-board features, the Curiosity Development Platform provides a variety of options that will meet the cost and design requirements of your application.
Notes:
- Can be connected using Curiosity Nano Base for Click boards and then interfaced with external XPRO or MikroElektronika Click extension boards
- Can be connected to external XPRO or MikroElektronika Click boards via on-board XPRO or mikroBUS™ interface
- Xplained Pro boards will not be available for new 32-bit MCU products
- mikroBUS Xplained Pro extension board can be used to connect Click boards
- Curiosity Nano Touch Adapter can be used to connect XPRO extension boards
Our most popular 32-bit MCUs come with at least one type of Curiosity board. We also offer user guides, reference application demos, example applications for MikroElektronika Click boards based on the SAM E51 Curiosity Nano Evaluation Kit and other design resources to jump-start your project development.
Explore the complete range of 32-bit MCU development boards and evaluation kits we offer in addition to the Curiosity Development Platform.
Design Resources to Save Your Development Time
Visit our 32-bit Microcontroller Applications, Reference Designs and Solutions page to explore a variety of resources that will help you get started with prototyping your design. These solutions are offered at many different levels:
- Original reference solutions using our hardware development boards in conjunction with our Xplained Pro extension boards or MikroElektronika Click boards
- These solutions include interactive system block diagrams, demo photos, standalone application demos, user guides, list of required hardware tools and hardware design files to help you quickly evaluate how our products are used within a proven design to accelerate your prototyping and development process
- Basic functional building blocks and demo examples of graphics, audio, motor control, USB and connectivity commonly seen in many embedded applications that are supported by our free MPLAB® Harmony v3 embedded software development framework
- Solutions developed by our third-party partners
We also offer a Rapid Prototyping with Curiosity Nano Webinar Series, a Rapid Prototyping Training Module, and a Getting Started with 32-bit Microcontroller Development Boards using MPLAB Harmony v3 video series featuring the Curiosity Development Platform to help you get your board up and running in just a few minutes.