Adafruit Metro M7 with microSD - Featuring NXP iMX RT1011

SKU: ADA5600 Brand: Adafruit

Your favorite electronics companies have collaborated to make the fastest Metro ever! For this new product, DigiKey, NXP and Adafruit all contributed the...

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Your favorite electronics companies have collaborated to make the fastest Metro ever! For this new product, DigiKey, NXP and Adafruit all contributed the stuff the stuff they know best: shipping parts fast (DigiKey), designing microcontrollers (NXP) and crafting great products with tutorials (that's us, Adafruit!)

Adafruit teamed up to present to you the Adafruit Metro M7 with microSD! An NXP iMX RT1011 microcontroller powers this board with a 500 MHz ARM Cortex M7 processor. There's 8 MB of execute-in-place QSPI for firmware + disk storage and 128KB of SRAM in-chip. Arduino-compatible headers make using any 'shield' daughterboard easy. And, as you can expect, there's a micro SD card slot wired up right on board so that you can read files or data log easily to removable, wear-leveled storage.

The iMX series of chips is the fastest microcontrollers around, with a Cortex M7 processor that is more powerful than the M0 or M4, and clock speeds of 500MHz+. For pure performance, there's nothing better! This chip family is well known for being featured in the Teensy 4 dev board series. Now Adafruit have a Metro-shaped board so you can use many Arduino shields, that is fully open source so you can adapt the design to create your own custom layouts, and a USB drag-n-drop bootloader plus CircuitPython support for easy development. Beginners and experts alike will enjoy the combination of low cost, roomy memory and storage, and no-soldering quick start.

Please note that this board does not have Arduino or Platform.io support. You can program it with CircuitPython, a fast-to-start embedded version of the popular Python programming language, or with MCU Xpresso IDE for C/C++ advanced embedded development.

Features

NXP iMX RT1011 processor - ARM Cortex M7 processor running at 500 MHz, with 128KB SRAM and high-speed USB!
Micro SD Card Slot - For audio files, images, scripts, or data logging. Uses SPI port and a chip select pin
8MB of QSPI XIP Flash
Power options - 6-12VDC barrel jack or USB type C
Arduino-UNO-shape so shields can plug in
Reset button - Click to restart, double-click to enter UF2 bootloader
Boot-mode switches to get into the ROM bootloader (you can always reload code over USB if TinyUF2 gets corrupted somehow)
SWD connector for advanced debugging access.
On/Off switch
STEMMA QT connector for I2C devices
On/User LEDs + status NeoPixel
Works with CircuitPython!

Technical Details

Dimensions: 53.2mm x 72mm / 2" x 2.8"
Height (w/ barrel jack): 14.8mm / 0.6"
Weight: 22.5g

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