Mikroe’s product marketing manager for Click boards explains how their modular add-on ecosystem lets teams move from idea to working prototype without spinning a custom PCB. Click boards slot into a standardized mikroBUS socket, exposing common MCU/MPU interfaces so you can evaluate sensors, radios, power, HMI and more in minutes, then reuse the exact same modules in early MVPs or test fixtures. With nearly two thousand peripheral options and unified software packages, the goal is fast bring-up, deterministic pin mapping, and a clean path from evaluation to productization. https://www.mikroe.com/
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Technically, mikroBUS defines a compact pinout for SPI, I2C, UART, PWM, ADC, reset and interrupt lines, typically at 3.3 V logic, which makes Click boards broadly MCU-agnostic. It’s ideal for mid-bandwidth peripherals—think IMUs, ToF/LiDAR, GNSS, LTE/NB-IoT, LoRa, environmental sensors—while truly high-speed video or MIPI-class links are broken out via separate high-speed mezzanine connectors (e.g., Hirose) on carrier designs. In practice you’re running I2C to ~1 MHz and SPI to a few MHz, enough for most control/telemetry workloads without high-speed signal-integrity headaches.
A new reference platform showcased here targets UAVs as a concrete systems example. The “brain” is swappable—customers can pick a microcontroller today and migrate to an MPU or even an FPGA later—while Click slots cover IMU/gyro, barometer/altimeter, GNSS, wireless telemetry, external storage (SD), and the ESC/BLDC motor control path. Mikroe plans to ship the kit with complete source code so teams can fork firmware, tune flight profiles, and replace modules without redoing the baseboard, accelerating iteration on navigation, sensing and control loops.
Beyond prototyping, Mikroe supports customization and scale: board tweaks, full bespoke designs, contract manufacturing, regulatory certification, and application software up to cloud integration. That’s why the same Click modules show up in industrial PoC rigs and early products—like custom asset and livestock trackers selecting between NB-IoT or LoRa—where integrators need to validate radios and sensors quickly and then freeze the BOM for pilot runs.
This interview was filmed at Embedded World North America 2025 It also touches on the broader adoption of the mikroBUS standard across silicon vendors and dev boards, which is why Click-based proofs often port cleanly between Microchip, ST, NXP, Renesas and others. For engineers, the value is a standardized connector, a vast catalog of interoperable peripherals, and an upgrade path from bench evaluation to production hardware without starting from zero.
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