Arduino Portenta H7

Arduino is busy trying to gain a strong position in the professional market. The release of the Arduino Portenta H7 is a very important step in this. The Portenta H7 cannot be compared to the standard Arduino boards. The planned delivery date was the end of March. Unfortunately, it will take longer due to the covid-19 virus.

UPDATE 10-07-2020: Delivery will take place mid-August. The Portenta H7 can already be ordered HERE .

The Arduino Portenta family currently consists of the Portenta H7 and the carrier. This new Arduino family has been developed for the professional market. Specifically aimed at SMEs and industry. The Arduino MKR family was already the first step towards a new branch of Arduino. But with the Portenta family, a lot is really going to change. Arduino already told us during the " global partner conference " in 2019 that they will now focus on 3 branches. Namely education, hobby and professional. Now there were already a lot of products for the first two categories. However, there was not yet anything specifically for the professional.

The Portenta H7 can be programmed using different programming languages. You can work with:

Arduino sketches on top of the Arm® Mbed™ OS
Native Mbed™ applications
MicroPython/ JavaScript
TensorFlow™ Lite

The main processor of the Arduino Portenta H7 is the dual-core STM32H747. The two cores communicate via a Remote Procedure Call mechanism. This allows functions on the other processor to be seamlessly enabled. The built-in wireless module allows simultaneous management of WiFi and Bluetooth® connectivity. The WiFi interface can be used as an access point, a station or a dual-mode simultaneous AP/STA and can handle a transfer rate of up to 65 Mbps. The Bluetooth® interface supports Bluetooth Classic and BLE.

Both the Portenta H7 and MKR family have the same form factor. This has been improved on the portenta family with an 80-pin connector. Full documentation of pinout and datasheets can be found on the Arduino website.

The Portenta H7 follows the Arduino MKR form factor, but is enhanced with the Portenta family of high-density 80-pin connectors. Learn more about the board's pinout by reading the board's pinout documentation.

Our experience

Unfortunately, we are still waiting for our Portenta H7. However, our expectations for this new board are very high. With Arduino Nano BLE Sense it is already possible to use Tenserflow . But we expect that this will go even better with the Portenta H7. We are very much looking forward to getting started with machine learning, among other things. Arduino is well on its way to establishing a name in the professional market.

Who is the Portenta H7 for?

As mentioned before, the Portenta H7 was developed for the professional market. This is definitely noticeable in the available performance. The Portenta H7 is suitable for tasks where performance is essential. Some examples of this are:

High-quality industrial machines
Laboratory equipment
Computer vision
PLCs
Industry-ready user interfaces
Robotics controller
Mission Critical Equipment
Dedicated stationary computer
Fast startup calculation (ms)

Specifications Portenta H7?

MAIN PROCESSOR	STM32H747XI dual Cortex®-M7+M4 32bit low power Arm® MCU
SDRAM	8-64 MByte option
QSPI FLASH	2-128 MByte option
ETHERNET	10/100 Phy option
WIRELESS	BT5.0 + WiFi 802.11 b/g/n 65Mbps option
CRYPTO CHIP	ECC608 or SE050C2 (Common Criteria EAL 6+) option
DISPLAY CONNECTOR	MIPI DSI host & MIPI D-PHY to interface with low-pin count large displays
GPU	Chrom-ART graphical hardware Accelerator™
TIMERS	22x Timers and Watchdogs
UART	4x ports (2 with flow control)
SD CARD	Interface for SD Card connector (through expansion port only)
OPERATIONAL TEMPERATURE	-40 °C to +85 °C
POWER	Through USB-C connector or LiPo battery (integrated charger)
CURRENT CONSUMPTION	2.95 μA in Standby mode (Backup SRAM OFF, RTC/LSE ON)
USB-C	Host/ Device, DisplayPort out, High/ Full Speed, Power delivery
MKR HEADERS	Use any of the existing industrial MKR shields on it
HIGH DENSITY CONNECTORS	Two 80 pin connectors will expose all of the board's peripherals to other devices
ESLOV CONNECTOR	Arduino's open connector standard for self-identifiable hardware
CAMERA INTERFACE	8-bit, up to 80 MHz
ADC	3× ADCs with 16-bit max. resolution (up to 36 channels, up to 3.6 MSPS)
DAC	2× 12-bit DAC (1 MHz)

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