Shuttle Click Board™

Product Code: MIKROE-2880

. How Does The Shuttle Click Board™ Work? The Shuttle Click Board™ consists of a high-quality PCB that can be connected to the mikroBUS™ as any other click board. The central part of the Shuttle click is populated with the four ICD BOX headers. Each of these four headers is used to connect to the same type of header on the add-on board, also known as mikroBUS Shuttle, by a flat ribbon cable. Thanks to the ICD BOX headers, the connection remains firm and stable. Besides the ICD BOX headers, these mikroBUS Shuttle add-on boards also have one mikroBUS™ equipped, so that the click board can be securely fitted to it. Having this kind of stacking topology, allows for easy manipulation and reconfiguration of the stacked click boards™, retaining a perfect connection quality at all times. When there's a need to expand the development system with even more mikroBUS™ slots, one of the free mikroBUS shuttles can be populated with yet another Shuttle click, allowing even more connections. This makes the stacking capacity almost unlimited.

However, attention should be paid not to make mikroBUS™ lines too long. In situations like this, the frequency of the communication might need to be stepped down a bit, in order to compensate for the longer mikroBUS™ signal lines. Lines of the mikroBUS™ to which Shuttle click is attached, are shared through all four ICD BOX headers - each of the four ICD BOX 2x8 pin headers mirrors pins of the connected mikroBUS™. Therefore, each mikroBUS Shuttle add-on board shares the same mikroBUS™ pins as the other mikroBUS Shuttles connected to the same Shuttle click. For this reason, an extra care should be taken when working with click boards™ that share the same pins on the mikroBUS™, either for the communication (SPI, UART, I2C) or for some other purpose (RST, INT, or other pins used as GPIO). For example, I2C and 1-Wire protocols are designed with stacking in mind, so the collision avoidance mechanisms are already in place for these protocols. It is enough to change the slave address of the click board™ and data collision won't be a problem anymore, even while sharing the same pins for the communication. Also, since all the stacked click boards™ share the same power rails, a care should be taken when combining click boards™ with significant power consumption. The power consumption from all the click boards™ combined should not exceed the maximum power that a development system can deliver. CLICK BOARD™ PRODUCT RANGE The union of the Shuttle Click Board™, mikroBUS Shuttle and Click Boards™ allows you to reach an unlimited number of possibilities when it comes to combining different functionalities. You just need to choose the ones you want from our ever-growing range: environmental sensors, LEDs, speech recognition, heart rate sensors, motor control, GSM, GPS, WiFi, analog to digital converters, movement sensors. More than 1300 click boards™ that can be stacked and integrated in a simple and convenient way are at your disposal. Turn your development system into a mikroBUS shuttle station! SPECIFICATIONS Type Adapter Applications The Shuttle Click Board™ provides an easy, secure and reliable stacking of up to four additional boards per mikroBUS™ socket. On-board modules Carries four ICD BOX 2x8 pin headers Key Features mikroBUS™ socket expansion board, which provides an easy and elegant solution for stacking up to four click boards™ on a single mikroBUS™ Interface GPIO Compatibility mikroBUS Click board size L (57.15 x 25.4 mm) Input Voltage 3.3V,5V PINOUT DIAGRAM This table shows the pinout on the mikroBUS™ socket. Notes Notes Analog Input 1 AN PWM 16 PWM Output Reset 2 RST INT 15 Hardware Interrupt SPI Chip Select 3 CS RX 14 UART Receive SPI Clock 4 SCK TX 13 UART Transmit SPI Slave Data Out 5 MISO SCL 12 I2C Clock SPI Slave Data In 6 MOSI SDA 11 I2C Data Power Supply 7 3.3V 5V 10 Power Supply Ground 8 GND