The Microchip Curiosity Nano Base for Click boards™ evaluation kit is a hardware extension platform to ease the connection between Curiosity Nano kits and extension boards like the mikroBUS™ Click modules and Xplained Pro extension boards.
MPLAB X IDE is a highly configurable software platform that provides powerful, free tools for developing, debugging and qualifying embedded designs that use microcontrollers and digital signal controllers.
MPLAB XC Compilers are optimized C compilers for Microchip microcontrollers, offering high-performance code generation and integration with MPLAB Tools for VS Code and MPLAB X IDE.
The Curiosity Nano Explorer lives up to its name by providing extensive on-board features that allow users to explore and experiment with the microcontroller peripherals of their Curiosity Nano development board. It also serves as an ideal platform to become familiar with Microchip's software offerings, including MCC Melody.
A wide selection of input and output options:
INPUTS include Touch (and mechanical) buttons, a potentiometer, a joystick, a temperature sensor, a proximity sensor, an ambient light sensor, and a microphone
OUTPUTS include LEDs (simple yellow, standard RGB, and WS2812B RGB), an OLED display, and a speaker
Solid support for serial communication:
I2C Bus with eight clients
SPI Bus with three clients
UART connection
Microchip’s complementary technologies:
Touch controller with three touch buttons and a separate touch button for use with microcontrollers featuring a touch peripheral
ECC608 provides CryptoAuthentication™ features
Power Monitoring by the PAC1944 enables the measurement of various power domains
Finally, if anything is missing on the Explorer, its functionality can be expanded via mikroBUS™, Grove or Qwiic® sockets.