MikroElektronika (known by its abbreviation MIKROE) is a Serbian manufacturer and retailer of hardware and software tools for developing

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. The company headquarters is in

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, Serbia.

History

Current company owner and CEO – Nebojša Matić started publishing an electronics magazine called "MikroElektronika" in 1997.Company history from MikroElektronika's website
/ref> In 2001, the magazine was shut down and MikroElektronika repositioned itself as a company focused on producing development boards for microcontrollers and publishing books for developing embedded systems. The company started offering compilers in 2004, with the release of mikroPascal for PIC and mikroBasic for PIC – compilers for programming 8-bit microcontrollers from Microchip Technology. Between 2004 and 2015 the company released C, Basic and Pascal compilers for seven microcontroller architectures: PIC, PIC32, dsPIC/PIC24, FT90x, AVR, 8051, and ARM® (supporting STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Microchip-based ARM® Cortex microcontrollers). In conjunction with compilers, MikroElektronika kept its focus on producing development boards while gradually ceasing its publishing activities. Its current generation of the "Easy" boards brand was released in 2012. One of the flagship models, EasyPIC Fusion v7 was nominated for best tool at the Embedded World 2013 exhibition in Nurembeg,embedded AWARD winners and nominees list 2005-2016
/ref> an important embedded systems industry gathering. Other product lines were introduced as well, including the "mikroProg" line of hardware programmers and debuggers, and the range of sensor and transceiver add-on boards known as click boards. During this time span the company developed relationships with various semiconductor vendors and distributors. It became an official partner of

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, Telit, Quectel, and U-blox.Official partners listed on MikroElektronika's website
/ref> MikroElektronika also built up its worldwide distributor network by partnering with

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, Mouser Electronics, Future Electronics, RS Components as well as more than 50 local distributors in all continents.Official distributors listed on MikroElektronika's website
/ref> Responding to rising public interest in the

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, in 2016 MikroElektronika released Hexiwear, a wearable development kit created in partnership with NXP Semiconductors. Hexiwear was funded through Kickstarter.Hexiwear Kickstarter page
/ref> Since its release on the market, it won four industry awards: Best in Show, Reader's Choice, and Best IoT product at ARM TechCon 2016 Innovation Challenge,ARM TechCon official award winners announcement
/ref> 2016 ECN Impact award,
/ref> as well as Best for Rapid Prototyping at the Hackster Maker Madness competition.Maker Madness winners announced on Hackster blog
/ref>

Product lines

MIKROE's product catalog includes more than 2,500 products. The following table lists its main product lines.

References

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