Vectino is a compact, open-source development board built around the Arm Cortex-M85, delivering the highest performance in the Cortex-M family along with Helium (MVE) vector acceleration. Designed for modern edge applications, it offers up to 15× speedups in DSP and ML tasks while maintaining low power consumption and real-time responsiveness.

Despite its small footprint, Vectino features a rich set of advanced peripherals. It includes interfaces for CAN, LIN, Modbus, high-resolution PWM, ADCs, and DACs, making it ideal for EdgeAI, industrial, automotive, and control applications. The board is built with industrial-grade components for high reliability, and designed with security in mind so you can trust it in sensitive deployments.

Vectino closes the gap between rapid prototyping and production-grade performance. It offers Extendable Arduino-like programming and compatibility with Arduino peripherals, while adding advanced Renesas FSP features, so it’s ready for true production-ready embedded applications.

Helium On The Edge

Vectino is designed to meet the demands of modern embedded applications across a wide range of domains. Because of its open-source foundation and modern toolchain support, it’s well-suited for everything from research and prototyping to intensive edge computing. It delivers high-speed, energy-efficient performance, transforming how devices sense, think, and respond in real time.

In industrial automation settings, it delivers deterministic performance for real-time control, sensor fusion, and protocol handling using advanced peripherals like CAN, LIN, and Modbus, all backed by Cortex-M85 and Helium SIMD acceleration.

Vectino’s Helium processing unlocks natural, low-power offline voice control and seamless smart home automation when embedded in consumer electronics. In healthcare and office automation, it ensures rock-solid reliability for secure, life-critical operations such as biometric identification and respiratory monitoring. For industrial and IoT systems, Helium accelerates predictive maintenance and advanced edge machine learning—analyzing data locally with powerful vectorized DSP and CMSIS-NN capabilities. The result: faster insights, greater autonomy, and zero dependence on the cloud.

Features & Specifications

• Arm® Cortex®-M85 core
  • ARMv8.1-M architecture profile with Helium M-profile Vector Extension (MVE)
  • Floating Point Unit (FPU) Scalar half, single, and double-precision floating-point operation.
  • M-profile Vector Extension (MVE) Integer, half-precision, and single-precision floating-point MVE (MVE-F)
  • Maximum operating frequency: 480 MHz
  • 2 MB code flash memory, 12 KB data flash memory
  • 1 MB SRAM, 128 KB of TCM (Tightly Coupled Memory) ECC memory
  • QSPI 16 Mb flash (optional upgrade)

Connectivity

• UART asynchronous interface up to 60 Mbps (2-ports)
  • Multi-processor communication
  • Noise cancellation
  • RS-485 driver control function (2 ports)
  • Smart card interface
  • Manchester coding support
• LIN (1-port)
• I2C bus interface IIC (1-port)
• I3C bus interface I3C (1-port)
• CAN with Flexible Data-rate CAN-FD (2-ports)
• Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) up to 60 Mbps (1-port)
• Serial sound interface enhanced (1-port)
• USB 2.0 High-Speed module (1-port)

Analog

• 12-bit A/D converter (ADC12) × 2
• 12-bit D/A converter (DAC12) × 2
• High-speed analog comparator (ACMPHS) × 2
• Temperature sensor (TSN)

Timers

• General PWM Timer 32-bit × 8 channels
• General PWM Timer 16-bit × 6 channels
• 3-phase PWM for BLDC motor control
• Hall sensor tachometer counter

Board-level I/O

• 32-pins GPIO, open drain, input pull-up, switchable driving ability
• 16-pins 5 V-tolerant GPIO
• GPIOs multiplexed with analog, comms, and timers functions
• RS485 transceiver
• CAN-FD transceiver
• 3x LEDs
• UART bootloader
• SWD debug interface

Open Source

Vectino is open-source hardware under the CERN Open Hardware License. We will make various files available to everyone, including board design files, drivers, and firmware, on our GitHub page when we launch our project.

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