{"id":24326,"date":"2018-04-20T10:01:53","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T17:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.digilentinc.com\/?p=24326"},"modified":"2025-05-30T08:36:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T15:36:45","slug":"add-a-microsd-slot-with-the-pmod-microsd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/add-a-microsd-slot-with-the-pmod-microsd\/","title":{"rendered":"Add a microSD Slot with the Pmod MicroSD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quite some time ago, Digilent released the <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/pmod-sd-full-sized-sd-card-slot\/\">Pmod SD<\/a>, which allowed users to add an SD card slot to an <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/fpga-programmable-logic\/\">FPGA<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/embedded-processors\/\">microcontroller<\/a> design with a 12-pin Pmod port. With the increasing popularity of microSD cards, I&#8217;m excited to announce the introduction of our newest Pmod, the<a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/pmod-microsd-microsd-card-slot\/\"> Pmod MicroSD<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/pmod-microsd-microsd-card-slot\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24329 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Pmod-MicroSD-Callout-600x343.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"343\" data-wp-pid=\"24329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Pmod-MicroSD-Callout-600x343.png 600w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Pmod-MicroSD-Callout.png 672w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/pmod-microsd-microsd-card-slot\/\">Pmod MicroSD<\/a> is a pass-through module which allows users to read and write to microSD cards of any size via the SPI protocol.<\/p>\n<h5 id=\"features\" class=\"sectionedit2\">Features<\/h5>\n<div class=\"level2\">\n<ul>\n<li class=\"level1\">\n<div class=\"li\">MicroSD card slot<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"level1\">\n<div class=\"li\">Store and access large amounts of data from your system board<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"level1\">\n<div class=\"li\">No limitation on file system or memory size of microSD card used<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"level1\">\n<div class=\"li\">1-bit and 4-bit communication<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"level1\">\n<div class=\"li\">12-pin Pmod port with SPI interface<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/pmod-microsd-microsd-card-slot\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-24331 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/39760047590_6a4d5d76df_z-600x517.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"517\" data-wp-pid=\"24331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/39760047590_6a4d5d76df_z-600x517.jpg 600w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/39760047590_6a4d5d76df_z-110x96.jpg 110w, https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/39760047590_6a4d5d76df_z.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>Who would use the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/pmod-microsd-microsd-card-slot\/\">Pmod MicroSD<\/a>?<\/h5>\n<p>The simplest answer would be, someone who needs a microSD card slot and doesn&#8217;t have one on the host board. A microSD card slot adds external memory storage used for applications such as data logging, and other applications that require flexible and removable file storage.<\/p>\n<p>The Pmod MicroSD is compatible with the pre-existing SD card library in the Arduino IDE and we&#8217;ve provided an IP core to accelerate time to a bare metal or Microblaze Zynq design.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on these resources and more on the<a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/pmod-microsd-microsd-card-slot\/\"> Pmod MicroSD<\/a> head over to its <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/reference\/pmod\/pmodmicrosd\/start\">resource center<\/a> or check out its <a href=\"https:\/\/digilent.com\/shop\/pmod-microsd-microsd-card-slot\/\">store page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style6 like-24326 jlk' data-task='like' data-post_id='24326' data-nonce='0f678f749c' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Like' \/><span class='lc-24326 lc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><div class='action-unlike'><a class='unlbg-style6 unlike-24326 jlk' data-task='unlike' data-post_id='24326' data-nonce='0f678f749c' rel='nofollow'><img src='https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post-pro\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Unlike' \/><span class='unlc-24326 unlc'>0<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-24326 status align-left'>Be the 1st to vote.<\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Add a microSD to your designs with our new Pmod!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":24328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,4327,35],"tags":[1662],"ppma_author":[4466],"class_list":["post-24326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-expansion-modules","category-projects","category-fpga","tag-fpga"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/BLOG-banner-600-PmodMicroSD.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":4466,"user_id":18,"is_guest":0,"slug":"kaitlyn","display_name":"Kaitlyn Franz","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9276021eaa44781ce19f364cfca46ada25e1500769cf4803a095a5bae83c912a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":"","9":"","10":""}],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31550,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24326\/revisions\/31550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24326"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=24326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}