Farnell is shipping Particle, a range of cloud-connected microcontrollers and development kits, making it possible to get your device connected in minutes – over Wi-fi, cellular or mesh and giving seamless transition from prototype to a global deployment with Device Cloud hosted infrastructure.
Particle offers three developments kits giving different connectivity options to the Particle Device Cloud: cellular (Boron), Wi-fi (Argon) and Mesh (Xenon):
- The Argon is a powerful Wi-Fi enabled development board that can act as either a standalone Wi- Fi endpoint or Wi-Fi enabled gateway for Particle Mesh networks. It is based on the Nordic nRF52840 and has built-in battery charging circuitry so it’s easy to connect a Li-Po and deploy your local network in minutes. The Argon is great for connecting existing projects to the Particle Device Cloud or as a gateway to connect an entire group of local endpoints.
- The Boron LTE is a powerful LTE CAT-M1/NB1 enabled development kit that can act as either a standalone cellular endpoint or LTE enabled gateway for Particle Mesh networks. It is based on the Nordic nRF52840 and has built-in battery charging circuitry so it’s easy to connect a Li-Po and deploy your local network in minutes. The Boron is great for connecting existing projects to the Particle Device Cloud or as a gateway to connect an entire group of local endpoints where Wi-Fi is missing or unreliable.
- The Xenon is a low cost mesh-enabled development board that can act as either an endpoint or repeater within a Particle Mesh network. The Xenon is mesh only and designed to function as the endpoint of your IoT network. It is based on the Nordic nRF52840 and has built-in battery charging circuitry so it’s easy to connect a Li-Po and deploy your local network in minutes. The Xenon is best for connecting sensors, motors, pumps, valves, and points of data-interest. Pair it with an Argon or Boron gateway to get all that great data into the Device Cloud.
Key features are as follows:
Wi-fi – Argon
• Espressif ESP32-D0WD 2.4Ghz Wi-Fi coprocessor
• On-board 4MB flash for ESP32 802.11 b/g/n support
• 802.11 n (2.4 GHz), up to 150 Mbps
• Nordic Semiconductor nRF52840 SoC
• ARM Cortex-M4F 32-bit processor @ 64MHz
• 1MB flash, 256KB RAM
• IEEE 802.15.4-2006: 250 Kbps
• Bluetooth 5: 2 Mbps, 1 Mbps, 500 Kbps, 125 Kbps
• Supports DSP instructions, HW accelerated Floating Point Unit (FPU) calculations ARM TrustZone CryptoCell-310 Cryptographic and security module
• Up to +8 dBm TX power (down to -20 dBm in 4 dB steps) NFC-A tag
• On-board additional 2MB SPI flash
• 20 mixed signal GPIO (6 x Analog, 8 x PWM), UART, I2C, SPI
• Micro USB 2.0 full speed (12 Mbps)
• Integrated Li-Po charging and battery connector
• JTAG (SWD) Connector
• RGB status LED
• Reset and Mode buttons
• On-board PCB antenna
• u.FL connector for external antenna
• Meets the Adafruit Feather specification in dimensions and pinout FCC, CE and IC certified
• RoHS compliant (lead-free)
Cellular – Boron
• u-blox SARA R410 LTE modem (Boron LTE)
• LTE CAT M1/ NB1 module with global hardware support (MVNO support for US only) 3GPP Release 13 LTE Cat M1
• u-blox SARA U201 2G/3G modem (Boron 2G/3G)
• HSPA/GSMqq with global hardware and SIM support Bands 800/850/900/1900/2100 MHz
• 3GPP Release 7
• Nordic Semiconductor nRF52840 SoC
• ARM Cortex-M4F 32-bit processor @ 64MHz
• 1MB flash, 256KB RAM
• IEEE 802.15.4-2006: 250 Kbps
• Bluetooth 5: 2 Mbps, 1 Mbps, 500 Kbps, 125 Kbps
• Supports DSP instructions, HW accelerated Floating Point Unit (FPU) calculations ARM TrustZone CryptoCell-310 Cryptographic and security module
• Up to +8 dBm TX power (down to -20 dBm in 4 dB steps) NFC-A tag
• On-board additional 2MB SPI flash
• 20 mixed signal GPIO (6 x Analog, 8 x PWM), UART, I2C, SPI
• Micro USB 2.0 full speed (12 Mbps)
• Integrated Li-Po charging and battery connector
• JTAG (SWD) Connector
• RGB status LED
• Reset and Mode buttons
• Dual SIM support: Nano 4FF and MFF2; • On-board PCB antenna; • u.FL connector for external antenna
• Meets the Adafruit Feather specification in dimensions and pinout FCC and PTCRB certified
• RoHS compliant (lead-free)
Mesh – Xenon
• Nordic Semiconductor nRF52840 SoC
• ARM Cortex-M4F 32-bit processor @ 64MHz
• 1MB flash, 256KB RAM
• IEEE 802.15.4-2006: 250 Kbps
• Bluetooth 5: 2 Mbps, 1 Mbps, 500 Kbps, 125 Kbps
• Supports DSP instructions, HW accelerated Floating Point Unit (FPU) calculations ARM TrustZone CryptoCell-310 Cryptographic and security module
• Up to +8 dBm TX power (down to -20 dBm in 4 dB steps) NFC-A tag
• On-board additional 2MB SPI flash
• 20 mixed signal GPIO (6 x Analog, 8 x PWM), UART, I2C, SPI
• Micro USB 2.0 full speed (12 Mbps)
• Integrated Li-Po charging and battery connector
• JTAG (SWD) Connector
• RGB status LED
• Reset and Mode buttons
• On-board PCB antenna
• u.FL connector for external antenna
• Meets the Adafruit Feather specification in dimensions and pinout FCC, CE and IC certified
• RoHS compliant (lead-free)
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