Qwiic Connected: Spotlighting the OmniMC Sensor Board
Soldered Electronics, in partnership with the Altera Innovation Lab, has announced the OmniMC Sensor Board, an add-on board for the Altera Agilex 3 or Agilex 5 FPGA boards. The boards allow users to experiment with the OpenBMC platform and offer native Qwiic connectivity.
Welcome to "Qwiic Connected!" This is a new blog series that highlights how Qwiic is being used in the world! Since 2017, Qwiic has served as an essential I2C prototyping tool. An onboard Qwiic connector turns any development board into a modular platform, letting engineers instantly expand system capabilities by daisy-chaining sensors, displays, and other accessories without soldering. We now commonly see Qwiic on development and sensor boards across the industry.
To kick off this series, we are looking at the OmniMC Sensor Board by Soldered Electronics, in partnership with the Altera Innovation Lab, launching on Crowd Supply very soon.
The OmniMC Sensor Board is a HAT-sized starter kit built to accelerate open-source system telemetry. Driven by an RP2354 microcontroller, it is an add-on for the Altera Agilex 3 and Agilex 5 FPGA boards, expanding them into accessible OpenBMC testbeds, bridging the gap between embedded developers and SoC-based FPGAs. It has high-speed I³C environmental sensors, dual power meters, and a native Qwiic port for plug-and-play expansion, the OmniMC is ideal for applications ranging from developing custom datacenter chassis managers to evaluating high-performance server thermal flow and power telemetry pipelines.
Several Soldered Electronics products are Qwiic Connected, including their super-cool e-paper platform Inkplate - we will write about this in another Qwiic Connected blog.
