New microcontroller development board for Google Cloud

RS Components offers Microchip’s AVR microcontroller IoT development board for Google Cloud. This new rapid development solution allows engineers to perform the fast prototyping of cloud-connected devices within minutes. Achieving an easy method of connecting up embedded applications, the company's AVR-IoT WG development board combines a powerful AVR-based MCU – the ATmega4808 – together with a secure-element IC and a fully certified Wi-Fi network controller. The board works in combination with Google Cloud IoT Core, which provides an artificial intelligence and machine learning-based infrastructure and facilitates the simple collection, processing and analysis of data, as well as providing a highly scalable platform for myriad IoT applications. Developers can quickly add cloud connectivity to a device via a free online portal. As the company's AVR devices support the MPLAB X IDE, once an IoT device connects to Google Cloud, engineers can develop and debug their application in the cloud using rapid development tools such as the company's MPLAB Code Configurator (MCC) or Atmel START. Overall, evading significant penalties in time and cost, this easy-to-use solution means that developers can design cloud-connected applications without needing expertise in communications protocols, security or hardware compatibility. Also, they do not have to deal with security vulnerabilities or face the challenges generated with the use of large software frameworks and RTOS.