What’s on board
1
9
1
RTC battery connector
2
mikroBUS
™
sockets 1, 2, 3 and 4
3
3.3V voltage regulator
4
100pin STM32F427 MCU
5
32.768 KHz crystal oscillator
6
USB A connector
7
12 MHz crystal oscillator
8
Flash memory (64 Mbit)
9
Connecting terminals
10
Additional indication LEDs
11
USB Mini-B connector
12
Power indication LED
13
External power supply (+20V max)
14
5V voltage regulator
15
BOOT button
16
RESET button
2
3
4
5
6
10
11
12
7
13
14
System specification
8
2
15
16
9
power supply
via USB cable
(5V DC)
board dimensions
72 x 97 mm
(2.83 x 3.82 inch)
weight
≅
50g
mikroBUS
™
4 sockets
available
1. Install the required software
What is the Quail board?
Quail is a hardware development board equipped with four mikroBUS
™
sockets and a 32-bit ARM® Cortex®-M4 STM32 microcontroller. The
edges of the board are lined with screw terminals and USB ports for
additional connectivity.
To start using Quail, download the following three pieces of software:
The Microsoft .NET Micro Framework
Open source platform that enables you to write managed C# code for embedded applications.
www.netmf.com
Visual Studio Community 2013
A full-featured free cross-platform IDE from Microsoft.
www.visualstudio.com
MBN Core Assembly
www.mikrobusnet.org/downloads-2
What’s it for?
Quail offers a simplified way of developing hardware prototypes
with C# managed code. It brings together MikroElektronika click
™
boards and Microsoft’s .NET Micro Framework for embedded devices
(NETMF). MikroElektronika is constantly expanding the range of
click
™
boards to include all sorts of sensors, tranceivers, displays...
and the MikroBUS.NET team is supporting them with high-quality
drivers to make them compatible with NETMF and the Microsoft
Visual Studio IDE.
Visual Studio Community 2013
2. Get the click
™
boards and corresponding drivers
Buzzer, Relays, WiFi, RFid, OLED, Speech recognition -
you name it, we got it!
There are
more than a hundred click
™
boards available. About 50 are supported so far with mikroBUS.
NET drivers. More drivers are coming up all the time but if you’re in a hurry instructions for
building your own drivers are also available.
All available click
™
boards:
www.mikroe.com/click
MikroBUS.NET click
™
board drivers:
www.mikrobusnet.org/downloads-2
3. Building your first application
After you’re done setting up the development environment with steps 1 and 2, you are
ready to start building your first application.
A detailed walkthrough on how to start a project in Visual Studio, include the neccessary
drivers and reference the needed assembleys in your source code is available at:
www.mikrobusnet.org/getting-started/writing-an-application
click
™
add-on boards
click
™
boards mounted on Quail
The Microsoft® and Visual Studio®
logos and product names are
trademarks of Microsoft® in the U.S.A.
and other countries
If you want to learn more about our products, please visit our web
site at
www.mikroe.com.
If you are experiencing some problems with any of our products
or just need additional information, please place your ticket at
www.mikroe.com/support.
If you have any questions, comments or business proposals, do not
hesitate to contact us at
office@mikroe.com
For more information and
Quail-related updates directly from
the MikroBUS.NET team, visit:
www.mikrobusnet.org/project/quail
Quail Board manual
ver 2.00