Arduino

The Arduino subpackage is a collection of drivers for controlling peripherals attached to a Arduino port.

An Arduino connector can be used to connect to Arduino compatible shields to PL pins. Remember that appropriate controllers must be implemented in an overlay and connected to the corresponding pins before a shield can be used. Arduino pins can also be used as general purpose pins to connect to custom hardware using wires.

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Block Diagram

An Arduino PYNQ MicroBlaze is available to control the Arduino interface, if provided. The Arduino PYNQ MicroBlaze is similar to the Pmod PYNQ MicroBlaze, with more AXI Controllers.

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As indicated in the diagram, the Arduino PYNQ MicroBlaze has a PYNQ MicroBlaze Subsystem, a configurable switch, and the following AXI controllers:

  • AXI I2C
    • Frequency: 100KHz
    • Address mode: 7 bit
  • 2x AXI SPI
    • Master mode
    • Transaction Width: 8
    • SCK Frequency: 6.25 MHz
    • FIFO Depth: 16

Note

One SPI controller is connected to the Arduino interface dedicated SPI pins.

  • 3x AXI GPIO
    • 16 Input/Output pins total
  • 6x AXI Timer
    • 32 bits
    • 1 Generate Output
    • 1 PWM Output
  • 1x AXI UART
    • 9600 Baud
  • 1x AXI XADC
    • 1V peak-to-peak *

Warning

Analog inputs are supported via the internal Xilinx XADC. This supports inputs of 1V peak-to-peak. Note that the Arduino interface supports 0-5V analog inputs which is not supported by Zynq without external circuitry.

  • AXI Interrupt controller

    Manages the interrupts of peripherals in the MicroBlaze subsystem.

  • Interrupt GPIO

    An additional AXI GPIO is used to signal interrupt requests to the PS

  • Configurable Switch

    Allows routing of signals from dedicated peripherals to the external interface.

Peripheral Pins
UART D0, D1
I2C SCL, SDA
SPI* D10 - D13
PWM D3, D5, D6, D9, D10, D11
Timer D3 - D6 and D8 - D11

Examples

In the Base Overlay, one Arduino PYNQ MicroBlaze instance is available. After the overlay is loaded this instance can be accessed as follows:

from pynq.overlays.base import BaseOverlay
from pynq.lib.arduino import Arduino_LCD18

lcd = Arduino_LCD18(base.ARDUINO)
lcd.clear()

More information about the Arduino subpackage, its components, and its API can be found in the pynq.lib.arduino Package section.

For more examples, see the notebooks in the following directory on the PYNQ-Z1 board:

<Jupyter Dashboard>/base/arduino/