Arduino Shield Sensor Board

Renesas has a wealth of sensors; however, to use these in a sensible environment, a control MCU is needed as well as an output medium. To enable the sensors to be tested/connected to different MCU families, a common electrical and mechanically stable plug-in interface is needed. The latest MCU evaluation kits are being equipped with an Arduino Shield interface, which is a standardized interface. A set of widely used sensors have been integrated in this Arduino Shield, which all share the I²C control interface – on different addresses.

System Benefits​:

• The six different I²C-connected sensors that are implemented, share the common interface with some overlapping I²C addresses, therefore an I²C buffer/splitter IC has been added into the design.
• An Arduino interface has only two interrupt lines (by default), therefore a wired AND has been added to the circuit to allow the use of interrupt outputs from the sensors.
• The sensor board is completely passive, this allows the board to be plugged into any Arduino Shield equipped evaluation kit.
• Single 3.3V input picked up from the host MCU (Arduino) interface.
• Multiple sensors on one board for quick evaluation.
• All sensors are enabled by default, but jumpers allow sensors to be disabled individually.