Portenta Hat Carrier is a reliable and robust carrier that transforms Portenta X8 into an industrial single board computer compatible with Raspberry Pi® Hats and cameras. The Portenta Hat Carrier is suitable for numerous industrial applications such as building automation and machine monitoring.
Also compatible with Portenta H7 and Portenta C33, the Portenta Hat Carrier provides easy access to multiple peripherals – including CAN, Ethernet, microSD and USB – and expands any Portenta application.
It’s great for prototyping and ready for scaling up, extending the capabilities of a typical Raspberry Pi® Model B. Fast debugging with dedicated JTAG pins and manageable heat generation under heavy workloads with a PWM fan connector. Control actuators or read analogue sensors via the additional 16x analogue I/Os. Add machine vision solutions to any project by utilising the onboard camera connection.

Key benefits include:
– Add Raspberry Pi® Hats to your Portenta projects
– Quickly access CAN, USB and Ethernet peripherals
– Utilise the integrated MicroSD card, to log data
– Enjoy easy debugging via the integrated JTAG pins
– Control actuators and read sensors via 16x analogue I/Os
– Use the integrated camera port for industrial image processing
– Discover a great prototyping tool for scalable Portenta applications!

Portenta takes you from prototype to high performance
Portenta Hat Carrier offers you a smooth Linux prototyping experience and opens up the possibility to develop integrated real-time MCU solutions. Portenta Hat Carrier extends the Portenta SOMs for faster, easier and more efficient testing of your ideas, while ensuring the capabilities and industrial-grade performance for which the Portenta product line is known. Reliable, accessible and open to endless combinations with add-ons from the Arduino and Raspberry Pi® ecosystem, the Carrier will blow you away with its flexibility.

Extend the Raspberry Pi® ecosystem for commercial applications
Combine the ease of use, accessibility and incredible support of the Arduino and Raspberry Pi® communities for your next project with the Carrier, designed to combine and extend MPU and MCU applications for the development of advanced commercial solutions.

Connectors
– High-density connectors compatible with Portenta products
– 1x USB-A female connector
– 1x Gigabit Ethernet connector (RJ45)
– 1x CAN FD with onboard transceiver
– 1x MIPI Camera connector
– 1x MicroSD card slot
– 1x PWM fan connector
– 40 pin header connector allowing compatibility with Raspberry Pi Hats
– 16 pin analogue header connectors, including:
8x analogue inputs
1x GPIO
1xUART without flow control
2x PWM pins
1x LICELL pin for Portenta’s RTC power

Interfaces
– CAN FD
– UART
– SAI
– ANALOG
– GPIO
– SPI
– I2C
– I2S
– PWM

– Operating temperatures -40° C to +85° C (-40° F to 185 °F)
– Dimensions 85 mm x 56 mm (3.35 in x 2.6 in)
– Debugging Onboard 10x pin 1.27mm JTAG connector

Power
– From onboard screw terminal block allowing:
7-32V power supply, powering both the carrier and the connected Portenta
5V power supply
– From USB-C on Portenta
– From 5V on 40 pin header connector