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The Teensy 4.1 is the newest version of the Teensy development board. It features an ARM Cortex-M7 processor running at 600MHz, 4x more flash memory than the previous version, and additional memory slots. The board is the same size as the Teensy 3.6 but provides more I/O like Ethernet, SD card, and USB host. A key feature is that headers are pre-soldered so it can be used right away without soldering.

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The Teensy 4.1 is the newest version of the Teensy development board. It features an ARM Cortex-M7 processor running at 600MHz, 4x more flash memory than the previous version, and additional memory slots. The board is the same size as the Teensy 3.6 but provides more I/O like Ethernet, SD card, and USB host. A key feature is that headers are pre-soldered so it can be used right away without soldering.

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Teensy 4.

1 (Headers)
DEV-16996

The Teensy 4.1 is the newest


iteration of the astoundingly popular
development platform that features
an ARM Cortex-M7 processor at
600MHz, with a NXP iMXRT1062
chip, four times larger flash memory
than the 4.0, and two new locations
to optionally add more memory.
The Teensy 4.1 is the same size
and shape as the Teensy 3.6 (2.4in
by 0.7in), and provides greater I/O
capability, including an ethernet
PHY, SD card socket, and USB
host port. The best part of this
version of Teensy 4.1 is that it
includes headers already attached.
No soldering is required allowing
you to get started as quickly as possible!
When running at 600 MHz, the Teensy 4.1 consumes approximately 100mA current and provides
support for dynamic clock scaling. Unlike traditional microcontrollers, where changing the clock
speed causes wrong baud rates and other issues, Teensy 4.1 hardware and Teensyduino's software
support for Arduino timing functions are designed to allow dynamically speed changes. Serial baud
rates, audio streaming sample rates, and Arduino functions like delay() and millis(), and
Teensyduino's extensions like IntervalTimer and elapsedMillis, continue to work properly while the
CPU changes speed. Teensy 4.1 also provides a power shut off feature. By connecting a pushbutton
to the On/Off pin, the 3.3V power supply can be completely disabled by holding the button for five
seconds, and turned back on by a brief button press. If a coin cell is connected to VBAT, Teensy
4.1's RTC also continues to keep track of date & time while the power is off. Teensy 4.1 also can
also be overclocked, well beyond 600MHz!
The ARM Cortex-M7 brings many powerful CPU features to a true real-time microcontroller platform.
The Cortex-M7 is a dual-issue superscaler processor, meaning the M7 can execute two instructions
per clock cycle, at 600MHz! Of course, executing two simultaneously depends upon the compiler
ordering instructions and registers. Initial benchmarks have shown C++ code compiled by Arduino
tends to achieve two instructions about 40% to 50% of the time while performing numerically
intensive work using integers and pointers. The Cortex-M7 is the first ARM microcontroller to use
branch prediction. On M4, loops and other code which much branch take three clock cycles. With
M7, after a loop has executed a few times, the branch prediction removes that overhead, allowing
the branch instruction to run in only a single clock cycle.
Tightly Coupled Memory is a special feature which allows Cortex-M7 fast single cycle access to
memory using a pair of 64 bit wide buses. The ITCM bus provides a 64 bit path to fetch instructions.
The DTCM bus is actually a pair of 32 bit paths, allowing M7 to perform up to two separate memory
accesses in the same cycle. These extremely high speed buses are separate from M7's main AXI
bus, which accesses other memory and peripherals. 512 of memory can be accessed as tightly
coupled memory. Teensyduino automatically allocates your Arduino sketch code into ITCM and all
non-malloc memory use to the fast DTCM, unless you add extra keywords to override the optimized
default. Memory not accessed on the tightly coupled buses is optimized for DMA access by
peripherals. Because the bulk of M7's memory access is done on the two tightly coupled buses,
powerful DMA-based peripherals have excellent access to the non-TCM memory for highly efficient
I/O.
Teensy 4.1's Cortex-M7 processor includes a floating point unit (FPU) which supports both 64 bit
"double" and 32 bit "float". With M4's FPU on Teensy 3.5 & 3.6, and also Atmel SAMD51 chips, only
32 bit float is hardware accelerated. Any use of double, double functions like log(), sin(), cos() means
slow software implemented math. Teensy 4.1 executes all of these with FPU hardware.

FEATURES

 ARM Cortex-M7 at 600MHz


 1024K RAM (512K is tightly coupled)
 8 Mbyte Flash (64K reserved for recovery & EEPROM emulation)
 USB Host Port
 2 chips Plus Program Memory
 55 Total I/O Pins
 3 CAN Bus (1 with CAN FD)
 2 I2S Digital Audio
 1 S/PDIF Digital Audio
 1 SDIO (4 bit) native SD
 3 SPI, all with 16 word FIFO
 7 Bottom SMT Pad Signals
 8 Serial ports
 32 general purpose DMA channels
 35 PWM pins
 42 Breadboard Friendly I/O
 18 analog inputs
 Cryptographic Acceleration
 Random Number Generator
 RTC for date/time
 Programmable FlexIO
 Pixel Processing Pipeline
 Peripheral cross triggering
 10 / 100 Mbit DP83825 PHY (6 pins)
 microSD Card Socket
 Power On/Off management
 Pre-soldered Male Headers
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