Important: Spresense Website Migration Announcement. Click for more details
The Spresense project website will be migrated to a new domain under Sony Semiconductor Solutions on January 16, 2026. The new website URL will be announced at a later date. Please stay tuned for further updates.
Important: Notice Regarding End of Support for Microsoft Windows 11. Click for more details
The Spresense Windows development environment currently supports both Windows 10 and Windows 11. However, with Microsoft ending support for Windows 10, Spresense will also discontinue support for the Windows 10 environment. Moving forward, only Windows 11 will be supported.
Future Supported Environments:
- Arduino Spresense Board Package: Windows 11
- Spresense SDK: Windows 11 (WSL2)
Spresense 6-core microcontroller board with ultra-low power consumption
High-performance microcontroller board with hi-res audio, camera input, internal GPS and Edge AI support.
Multicore programming with Spresense using the Arduino IDE
The Spresense development board is unique in the sense that it supports multicore programming using the Arduino IDE. Spresense is powered by 6 Arm cores running at 156 MHz, which is many times faster than most Arduino boards. Once you have set up your Arduino IDE for Spresense, there are two simple step-by-step tutorial examples that explain how to do multicore programming using the Arduino IDE:
- Multicore Boot example This example shows how to start and control the main core with the sub cores.
- Multicore MessageHello example This example shows how to communicate between the cores by sending the address of messages using shared memory.
For additional details on multicore programming using the Arduino IDE, there is a dedicated chapter in the Spresense Arduino IDE developer guide called "MultiCore MP Library".