Macnica To Start Official Order For Mpression Odyssey Kit

January 8, 2015, Yokohama, Japan – Macnica, Inc. today announced it is starting to take official orders for already announced Mpression Odyssey MAX 10 Kit as of January 13 in Japan.

Macnica anticipates first shipping to be in early February.

Mpression Odyssey MAX 10 Kit (ordering code: ODYSSEY-MAX 10-KIT) is a comprehensive IoT development platform which contains the MAX 10 board with Altera® MAX®10 FPGA, the BLE & Sensor board with Broadcom Wiced SMART BLE module, Silicon Laboratories EFM32™ 32-bit MCU and various sensors, and the Battery board.

Orders are accepted at Macnica's subsidiaries Altima Corp. and Elsena, Inc. as of January 13, along with Macnica Online Store as soon as inventory is in warehouse.

The preceding reservation campaign for the kit is closed as of today as a result of this announcement.

Those who placed already reserved the kit will receive separate emails explaining the special procedures to order the kit.

Celebrating this announcement, Macnica is starting a new "official release campaign" offering the kit at the price of JPY5,480 for limited quantity while the official retail price is JPY9,600.