RS Components Introduces Digilent Pmods™ and Arduino-like Shields to Quickly Add More Features to Prototyping Designs

The range of peripheral and shield modules for the Arduino ecosystem offers sensor alternatives.
RS Components has expanded its offering of versatile development tools and kits with a new range of PmodsTM (peripheral modules) and shields from Digilent. Allowing makers and engineers to build the bridge from systems to the physical world, these devices can be used in multiple applications, including PCB layouts and IoT projects that require additional capabilities such as wireless communications, including Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. ; MEMS devices such as three-axis gyroscopes, accelerometers and microphones, or motor control.
Compatible with the dimensions of Arduino R3, the chipKIT Pmod shield allows the connection to more than 80 Pmods, increasing the capacities of the system boards and, consequently, the functionality of the designs and the possibilities of application. The shield has five 2x6 Digilent Pmod connectors, one 2x4 I²C connector and optional pull-up resistors for I²C bus. A key product in this range is the Pmod IOXP I²C adapter and port expansion board for the Arduino Uno development kit.
The Pmod IOXP is an I/O expansion module that provides up to 19 GPIO pins from a serial I²C bus connection, plus a keyboard matrix decoder. Other Digilent products available from RS include: chipKIT Pro MX7 PIC32MX development kit; the Arty Z7 Zynq-7000 development board; the Digital Discovery logic analyzer; video and display accessories such as JTAG cables, which enable high-speed programming and debugging of Xilinx FPGA and SoC devices from a host PC; a 128 x 32 pixel mono OLED screen; a digital audio output to I2S stereo, and a series of Pmod modules with current, humidity and temperature detectors.