Arduino Portenta H7 Development Board

Portenta H7 allows you to build your next smart project. Ever wanted an automated house? Or a smart garden? Well, now it’s easy with the Arduino IoT Cloud-compatible boards. It means: you can connect devices, visualize data, control and share your projects from anywhere in the world. Whether you’re a beginner or a pro, we have a wide range of plans to make sure you get the features you need.

Portenta H7 simultaneously runs high-level code along with real-time tasks. The design includes two processors that can run tasks in parallel. For example, is possible to execute Arduino-compiled code along with MicroPython one, and have both cores to communicate with one another. The Portenta functionality is two-fold, it can either be running like any other embedded microcontroller board, or as the main processor of an embedded computer.

Portenta can easily run processes created with TensorFlow™ Lite, you could have one of the cores computing a computer vision algorithm on the fly, while the other could be making low-level operations like controlling a motor or acting as a user interface.

Use Portenta when performance is key, among other cases, we envision it to be part of:

• High-end industrial machinery
• Laboratory equipment
• Computer vision
• PLCs
• Industry-ready user interfaces
• Robotics controller
• Mission-critical devices
• Dedicated stationary computer
• High-speed booting computation (ms)

Two Parallel Cores

H7's main processor is the dual core STM32H747 including a Cortex® M7 running at 480 MHz and a Cortex® M4 running at 240 MHz. The two cores communicate via a Remote Procedure Call mechanism that allows calling functions on the other processor seamlessly. Both processors share all the in-chip peripherals and can run:

• Arduino sketches on top of the Arm® Mbed™ OS
• Native Mbed™ applications
• MicroPython / JavaScript via an interpreter
• TensorFlow™ Lite

Graphics Accelerator

Probably one of the most exciting features of the Portenta H7 is the possibility of connecting an external monitor to build your own dedicated embedded computer with a user interface. This is possible thanks to the STM32H747 processor's on-chip GPU, the Chrom-ART Accelerator™. Besides the GPU, the chip includes a dedicated JPEG encoder and decoder.

A new standard for pinouts

The Portenta family adds two 80 pin high density connectors at the bottom of the board. This ensures scalability for a wide range of applications by simply upgrading your Portenta board to the one suiting your needs.

On-board Connectivity

The onboard wireless module allows to simultaneously manage WiFi and Bluetooth® connectivity. The WiFi interface can be operated as an Access Point, as a Station or as a dual mode simultaneous AP/STA and can handle up to 65 Mbps transfer rate. Bluetooth® interface supports Bluetooth Classic and Bluetooth® Low Energy.  It is also possible to expose a series of different wired interfaces like UART, SPI, or I2C, both through some of the MKR styled connectors, or through the new Arduino industrial 80 pin connector pair. The 80-pin connector pair provides additional features including Ethernet.

USB-C® Multipurpose Connector

The board's programming connector is a USB-C port that can also be used to power the board, as a USB Hub, to connect a DisplayPort monitor, or to deliver power to OTG connected devices.

Multiple options in one board

Order the default Arduino Portenta H7 (codename H7-15EUNWAD) that comes with:

• STM32H747 dual-core processor with graphics engine
• 8MB SDRAM
• 16MB NOR Flash
• 10/100 Ethernet Phy
• USB HS
• NXP SE050C2 Crypto
• WiFi/BT Module
• External Antenna
• DisplayPort over USB-C