Shuttle click
PID: MIKROE-2880
Weight: 25 g
One click board™, numerous possibilities
Shuttle click is a mikroBUS™ socket expansion board, which provides an easy and elegant
solution for stacking up to four click boards™ on a single mikroBUS™. It is a perfect solution
for expanding the capacity of the development system with additional mikroBUS™ sockets
when there is a demand for using more click boards™ than the used development system is able
to support.
Shuttle click can be especially interesting for the development systems that are equipped with a
very small number of mikroBUS™ slots, such as the Clicker family of development systems.
Using Shuttle click on such system will greatly improve its usability by adding more
mikroBUS™ sockets, yet it will remain small, compact and manageable.
How does it work?
Shuttle click consists of a high-quality PCB that can be connected to the mikroBUS™ as any
other click board. The central part of the Shuttle click is populated with the four ICD BOX
headers. Each of these four headers is used to connect to the same type of header on the add-on
board, also known as mikroBUS Shuttle, by a flat ribbon cable. Thanks to the ICD BOX headers,
the connection remains firm and stable. Besides the ICD BOX headers, these mikroBUS Shuttle
add-on boards also have one mikroBUS™ equipped, so that the click board can be securely fitted
to it. Having this kind of stacking topology, allows for easy manipulation and reconfiguration of
the stacked click boards™, retaining a perfect connection quality at all times.
When there's a need to expand the development system with even more mikroBUS™ slots, one
of the free mikroBUS shuttles can be populated with yet another Shuttle click, allowing even
more connections. This makes the stacking capacity almost unlimited. However, attention should
be paid not to make mikroBUS™ lines too long. In situations like this, the frequency of the
communication might need to be stepped down a bit, in order to compensate for the
longer mikroBUS™ signal lines.
Lines of the mikroBUS™ to which Shuttle click is attached, are shared through all four ICD
BOX headers - each of the four ICD BOX 2x8 pin headers mirrors pins of the connected
mikroBUS™. Therefore, each mikroBUS Shuttle add-on board shares the same mikroBUS™
pins as the other mikroBUS Shuttles connected to the same Shuttle click. For this reason, an
extra care should be taken when working with click boards™ that share the same pins on the
mikroBUS™, either for the communication (SPI, UART, I2C) or for some other purpose (RST,
INT, or other pins used as GPIO). For example, I2C and 1-Wire protocols are designed with
stacking in mind, so the collision avoidance mechanisms are already in place for these protocols.
It is enough to change the slave address of the click board™ and data collision won't be a
problem anymore, even while sharing the same pins for the communication.
Also, since all the stacked click boards™ share the same power rails, a care should be taken
when combining click boards™ with significant power consumption. The power consumption
from all the click boards™ combined should not exceed the maximum power that a development
system can deliver.
Click board™ product range
The union of Shuttle click, mikroBUS Shuttle and click boards™ allows you to reach an
unlimited number possibilities when it comes to combining different functionalities. You just
need to choose the ones you want from our ever-growing range: environmental sensors, LEDs,
speech recognition, heart rate sensors, motor control, GSM, GPS, WiFi, analog to digital
converters, movement sensors.
More than 400 click boards™ that can be stacked and integrated in a simple and convenient way
are at your disposal.
Turn your development system into a mikroBUS shuttle station!
Specifications
Type
Adapter
Applications
Provides easy, secure and reliable stacking of up to four additional boards per
mikroBUS™ socket.
Interface
GPIO
Input Voltage
3.3V,5V
Click board size
L (57.15 x 25.4 mm)
Pinout diagram
This table shows the pinout on the mikroBUS™ socket.
Notes
Notes
Analog Input
1
AN
PWM
16
PWM Output
Reset
2
RST
INT
15
Hardware Interrupt
SPI Chip Select
3
CS
RX
14
UART Receive
SPI Clock
4
SCK
TX
13
UART Transmit
SPI Master Input Slave Output
5
MISO
SCL
12
I2C Clock
SPI Master Output Slave Input
6
MOSI
SDA
11
I2C Data
Power Supply
7
3.3V
5V
10
Power Supply
Ground
8
GND
GND
9
Ground
Onboard settings and indicators
Label
J1
J2
J3
J4
Name
Default
Description
-
J1 Connector (IDC BOX header) has 16 pins, one for every mikroBUS™ pin.
Flat ribbon cable provides connection to mikroBUS™ Shuttle which has the
same type of connector.
-
J2 Connector (IDC BOX header) has 16 pins, one for every mikroBUS™ pin.
Flat ribbon cable provides connection to mikroBUS™ Shuttle which has the
same type of connector.
-
J3 Connector (IDC BOX header) has 16 pins, one for every mikroBUS™ pin.
Flat ribbon cable provides connection to mikroBUS™ Shuttle which has the
same type of connector.
-
J4 Connector (IDC BOX header) has 16 pins, one for every mikroBUS™ pin.
Flat ribbon cable provides connection to mikroBUS™ Shuttle which has the
same type of connector.
HM2X8
HM2X8
HM2X8
HM2X8
Downloads
mikroBUS™ standard specifications
Shuttle click schematic
Shuttle click - 2D and 3D click
https://www.mikroe.com/shuttle-click 2-28-18