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Development Boards

Astrobe is supported on a range of development boards using Raspberry Pi, STMicroelectronics  and Xilinx devices. If you have not already chosen or designed your hardware we recommend starting with one of these boards for the quickest way to get up and running. The supported boards can be programmed from a Windows PC without any additional hardware.

The possible ways to program a particular development board depend on its capabilities:

The Run command on the Astrobe Project menu opens a terminal window on your PC. You can use this window to send and receive text to / from your program on the microcontroller using functions from the Astrobe library modules In and Out. Diagnostic runtime error messages are also displayed in this window. The messages identify the line number and name name of the source code file where the error occurred enabling you to quickly pinpoint the source of the problem.


Raspberry Pi Microcontrollers

Astrobe for RP2040 and Astrobe for RP2350 can be used to develop software for the Raspberry Pi Pico and Raspberry Pi Pico 2 development boards.

RP2040

RP2350


STM32 Microcontrollers

Astrobe for Cortex-M can be used to develop software for the STM32 Nucleo development boards. Both general and hardware-specific library and example modules are supplied with Astrobe for the following STM32 Cortex-M0/M0+, M3, M4 and M7 microcontrollers. They can be used as a starting point to target other STM32-compatible microcontrollers.

Cortex-M0/M0+

Cortex-M3

Cortex-M4

Cortex-M7

Refer to the relevant Microcontroller User Manuals for full operational details


Xilinx FPGA

Astrobe for RISC5 can be used to develop software for Xilinx FPGA devices.

RISC5 FPGA


Development Boards

Astrobe has been tested on all of the following development boards. The prices are approximate.

RP2040/2350 Price
Raspberry Pi Pico $US 4
Raspberry Pi Pico 2 $US 5

Cortex-M0/M0+ Price
STM32 Nucleo-F070RB $US 12
STM32 Nucleo-F091RC $US 12

Cortex-M3 Price
STM32 Nucleo-L152RE $US 15
STM32 Nucleo-F207ZG $US 26

Cortex-M4 Price
STM32 Nucleo-F303RE $US 12
STM32 Nucleo-F303ZE $US 21
STM32 Nucleo-F334R8 $US 12
STM32 Nucleo-F429ZI $US 26
STM32 Nucleo-L432KC $US 12

Cortex-M7 Price
STM32 Nucleo-F746ZG $US 26
STM32 Nucleo-F767ZI $US 26

Digilent FPGA RISC5 Price Academic Price
Cmod A7-35T $US 99    
Basys 3 $US 165 $US 124
Arty A7-100T $US 299    
Nexys A7-100T $US 349 $US 262
Cmod S7-25 $US 99    
Arty S7-25 $US 119    
Arty S7-50 $US 199