Future Electronics develops Sequana development platform for IoT
Distributor, Future Electronics, has introduced Sequana, a hardware and software platform for the rapid development of secure, connected and IoT devices.
The platform includes a main controller board and a sensor daughterboard for measurement of indoor pollutants, humidity, and visible and infra red (IR) light.
The platform was created by Future Electronics’ Centre of Excellence for embedded engineering in Gdansk, Poland in collaboration with Cypress Semiconductor and Arm. It is believed to be the world’s first development platform to feature a Cypress PSoC 6 microcontroller running the Arm MbedT OS for IoT devices.
The dual-core architecture of the PSoC 6 makes it particularly well suited for IoT devices, including wireless sensor hubs and other smart connected applications. This architecture supports power-optimised partitioning between the PSoC’s low power Arm Cortex-M0+ core and its Cortex-M4 core. The Mbed software is an open-source real-time OS for IoT devices and includes drivers and security, storage and networking functions.
A PSoC 63 MCU module includes an on-chip Bluetooth 5.0 radio and includes an antenna and RF peripherals, and is supplied with FCC, CE and Bluetooth certificates.
The PSoC 63 offers three levels of hardware-based isolation to construct a secure application. It offers integrated secure element functionality, including hardware-accelerated cryptographic functions such as AES, 3DES, RSA, ECC and SHA. In Sequana, reference examples of these capabilities are provided by the Mbed OS’s support for partition management, cryptography and Transport Layer Security (TLS) for authentication and confidentiality.
To develop applications, the Sequana is facilitated by the board’s array of sensors,
interfaces and headers. The main board is supplied with a choice of Rohm Semiconductor MEMS motion sensors to support the development of machine condition monitoring and predictive maintenance applications. It also includes Arduino and mikroBUST headers to integrate function-specific boards.
The Sequana platform may also be supplied with an optional Sequana Environmental plug-in board, which features an array of sensors from ams, IDT, Murata, Sensirion and STMicroelectronics. These sensors detect and measure airborne pollutants (volatile organic compounds or VOCs, carbon dioxide and particulate matter), as well as acoustic noise and humidity. The board also includes a visible light sensor to measure the colour and intensity of ambient light, and an infrared light sensor for presence detection.
