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Careers and Grad Ed

Selecting a development
board for your capstone
or course project
Rudy Lang, Michael Lescisin, and Qusay H. Mahmoud

■■Arduino Uno Rev 3
■■Raspberry Pi 3 Model B
■■BeagleBone Black Rev C

■■Intel Galileo Gen 2
■■LaunchPad MSP-EXP430FR5969
■■NXP FRDM-KL25Z

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t is apparent that development
boards are an emerging area,
given that the market size for
microcontrollers has grown 11%
from 2006 to 2013. As of 2013,
over 700,000 official Arduino boards
have been registered. Additionally, as
of 2015, approximately 5 million
Raspberry Pi products have been sold.
Development boards are a key
component of this decade's Internet
of Things (IoT) movement; they are
designed to be efficient, connected,
portable, and sensing. They complement the main idea of the IoT by interconnecting all types of devices-
from consumer to industrial-and
are useful tools for learning software
and hardware design integration.
They offer great features for both the
student and veteran hobbyist.
Our objective in this article is to
provide methods for selecting the
correct development board given a
particular project. This is geared toward students and instructors, but
it may also prove useful for the general hobbyist. Nine of the latest and
most popular boards on the market
will be explored in-depth. The information in this article is intended to
identify the boards' strengths and
weaknesses and assist a developer
with choosing a device. The following
boards have been evaluated:

Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MPOT.2017.2716778
Date of publication: 2 May 2018

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