Description
LinkIt 7697 is a co-design product from Seeed Studio and MediaTek. As the newest member of the LinkIt family, it uses the MediaTek MT7697 SoC and strives for a lightweight IoT solution. It may remind you of LinkIt smart 7688/Duo, another development board released in 2015. Both are born for the IoT, but they are quite different.
The LinkIt 7697 chipset is MT7697, a highly integrated single chip with an application processor, a low-power 1x1 11n single-band Wi-Fi subsystem, a Bluetooth subsystem and a power management unit. The application processor subsystem contains the ARM Cortex-M4F MCU. It also contains many peripherals, including UART, I2C, SPI, I2S, PWM, IrDA and auxiliary ADC.
For programming, you can program the board with the native LinkIt SDK via GCC, IAR Embedded Workbench or KEIL uVision. To make operation easier, LinkIt 7697 also provides a port layer to the popular Arduino IDE - so you can use your existing Arduino sketches and peripheral driver libraries.
Compared to Arduino UNO, you'll find that LinkIt 7697 is more powerful because it can run more complicated and store larger programs, it's easy to use and cost-effective, you can even plug it directly into a breadboard and start your IoT project right away.
