PJRC Teensy 4.0 iMXRT1062 Microcontroller Development Board
PJRC Teensy 4.0 iMXRT1062 Microcontroller Development Board
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Teensy 4.0 is the latest Teensy microcontroller development board from PJRC, offering the fastest microcontroller and powerful peripherals in the Teensy 1.4 by 0.7 inch (3.6 x 1.8 cm) form factor. It features an ARM Cortex-M7 processor at 600MHz, with a NXP iMXRT1062 chip, the fastest microcontroller available today. Teensy 4.0 is the same size and shape as the Teensy 3.2 and retains compatibility with most of its pin functions.
The NXP iMXRT1062 is a 'cross-over' processor, which has the functionality of a microcontroller at the speeds of a microcomputer. It's perfect for when you need lots of flash, RAM, to crunch lots of data, or when you need two full speed USB ports. It even has a built-in graphics processor!
Teensy 4.0 provides support for dynamic clock scaling. Unlike traditional microcontrollers, where changing the clock speed causes wrong baud rates and other issues, Teensy 4.0 hardware and Teensyduino's software support for Arduino timing functions are designed to allow dynamic speed changes. Serial baud rates, audio streaming sample rates, and Arduino functions like delay() and millis(), and Teensyduino's extensions like IntervalTimer and elapsedMillis, continue to work properly while the CPU changes speed.
Teensy 4.0 also provides a power shut off feature. By connecting a pushbutton to the On/Off pin, the 3.3V power supply can be completely disabled by holding the button for 5 seconds, and turned back on by a brief button press. If a coin cell is connected to VBAT, Teensy 4.0's RTC also continues to keep track of date & time while the power is off.
The ARM Cortex-M7 brings many powerful CPU features to a true real-time microcontroller platform. Cortex-M7 is a dual-issue superscaler processor, meaning the M7 can execute two instructions per clock cycle, at 600MHz (Teensy 4.0 can be overclocked to well beyond 600MHz)! Cortex-M7 is the first ARM microcontroller to use branch prediction. On M4, loops and other code which must branch take three clock cycles. With M7, after a loop has executed a few times, the branch prediction removes that overhead, allowing the branch instruction to run in only a single clock cycle.
Tightly Coupled Memory is a special feature that allows Cortex-M7 fast single-cycle access to memory using a pair of 64 bit wide buses. The ITCM bus provides a 64-bit path to fetch instructions. The DTCM bus is actually a pair of 32-bit paths, allowing M7 to perform up to 2 separate memory accesses in the same cycle. These extremely high-speed buses are separate from M7's main AXI bus, which accesses other memory and peripherals. 512K of memory can be accessed as tightly coupled memory. Teensyduino automatically allocates your Arduino sketch code into ITCM and all non-malloc memory use to the fast DTCM, unless you add extra keywords to override the optimized default.
Memory not accessed on the tightly coupled buses is optimized for DMA access by peripherals. Because the bulk of M7's memory access is done on the 2 tightly coupled buses, powerful DMA-based peripherals have excellent access to the non-TCM memory for highly efficient I/O.
Teensy 4.0's Cortex-M7 processor includes a floating-point unit (FPU) which supports both 64 bit "double" and 32 bit "float". With M4's FPU on Teensy 3.5 & 3.6, and also Atmel SAMD51 chips, only 32 bit float is hardware accelerated. Any use of double, double functions like log(), sin(), cos() means slow software implemented math. Teensy 4.0 executes all of these with FPU hardware.
The Teensy 4.0 is available in the standard unlocked version, and in a lockable version suitable for commercial products and secure applications to protect your program code from unauthorized access and coping. Click Here for Code Security for Lockable Teensy details.
Technical Specifications:
- ARM Cortex-M7 at 600 MHz
- 1024K RAM (512K is tightly coupled)
- 2048K Flash (64K reserved for recovery & EEPROM emulation)
- 2 USB ports, both 480 MBit/sec
- 3 CAN Bus (1 with CAN FD)
- 2 I2S Digital Audio
- 1 S/PDIF Digital Audio
- 1 SDIO (4 bit) native SD
- 3 SPI, all with 16 word FIFO
- 3 I2C, all with 4 byte FIFO
- 7 Serial, all with 4 byte FIFO
- 32 general-purpose DMA channels
- 31 PWM pins
- 40 digital pins, all interrupt capable
- 14 analog pins, 2 ADCs on chip
- Cryptographic Acceleration
- Random Number Generator
- RTC for date/time
- Programmable FlexIO
- Pixel Processing Pipeline
- Peripheral cross triggering
- Power On/Off management
Note: The Teensy 4.0 does not include headers and, if needed in your application, will need to be purchased separately and soldered on yourself.
Resources:
Audio Adapter Shield for Teensy 4.0 Rev D
