A list of all known Arduino hardware packages.
Hardware packages (AKA "cores") contain the hardware definitions used by the Arduino IDE and arduino-cli. They may add support for new boards and/or programmers.
- Name: The platform name from the boards manager JSON file, the
nameproperty from platform.txt, or an arbitrary name determined from looking at the repository content. - Vendor: The name of the package's vendor folder. The machine-friendly name of the package is
{vendor}:{architecture}. - Architecture: The name of the package's architecture folder. The machine-friendly name of the package is
{vendor}:{architecture}. - Repository: The website where the package files are stored.
- Boards Manager URL: The URL for the JSON file that provides Boards Manager installation support. This URL must be added to the Arduino IDE's File > Preferences > Additional Boards Manager URLs.
- Repository Data Folder: The folder in the repository that contains boards.txt.
- Branch Name: The branch of the repository that contains the package files.
- Notes: Additional information.
Additions/corrections/updates to the list are welcome! Please submit a pull request or issue.