Arduino Uno

• The Arduino Uno is an open-source micro-controller board based on the Microchip ATmega328P micro-controller and developed by Arduino.cc.
• The board is equipped with sets of digital and analog input/output (I/O) pins that may be interfaced to various expansion boards (shields) and other circuits.
• The software used for writing, compiling & uploading code to Arduino boards is called Arduino IDE (Integrated Development Environment), which is free to download from Arduino Official Site.
• It has an operating voltage of 5V while the input voltage may vary from 7V to 12V.
• Arduino UNO has a maximum current rating of 40mA, so the load shouldn’t exceed this current rating or you may harm the board.
• It comes with a crystal oscillator of 16MHz, which is its operating frequency.
• Arduino Uno Pinout consists of 14 digital pins starting from D0 to D13
• t also has 6 analog pins starting from A0 to A5.
• It also has 1 Reset Pin, which is used to reset the board programmatically. In order to reset the board, we need to make this pin LOW.
• It also has 6 Power Pins, which provide different voltage levels.
• Out of 14  digital pins, 6 pins are used for generating PWM pulses of 8-Bit resolution. PWM pins in Arduino UNO are D3, D5, D6, D9, D10 and D11.
• Apart from USB, a battery or AC to DC adopter can also be used to power the board.
• Arduino Uno comes with a USB interface i.e. USB port is added on the board to develop serial communication with the computer.
• Atmega328 microcontroller is placed on the board that comes with a number of features like timers, counters, interrupts, PWM, CPU, I/O pins and based on a 16MHz clock that helps in producing more frequency and number of instructions per cycle.

Arduino UNO comes with 3 types of memories associated with it, named:

• Flash Memory: 32KB
• SRAM: 2KB
• EEPROM: 1KB

Arduino UNO supports 3 types of communication protocols, used for interfacing with third-party peripherals, named:

• Serial Protocol
• I2C Protocol
• SPI Protocol

Package includes

• 1 Arduino uno board
• 1 USB cable