Optimizing Systems with Atmel’s Cortex-Mx Series

2.7 V – 5.5 V Operating Voltage — ensures the best signal-to-noise ratio and anti-interference,EMC,ESD and stability in locking aspects.

Atmel® QTouch® Peripheral Touch Controller — provides built-in hardware support for buttons, sliders, wheels, and proximity sensing, supporting mutual capacitance and self-capacitance touch without external components. It has excellent sensitivity, noise resistance, and self-calibration features, allowing any user to adjust the margin.

Peripheral Flexibility — Innovative Serial Communication Module (SERCOM) can be fully configured in software to handleI²C,USART/UART,SPI,RS485 and LIN communication. With multipleSERCOM modules on the device, you can precisely customize peripheral combinations in your application.

CAN Bus — SAM C21 series provides two controller area network (CAN) modules supporting CAN 2.0A/B and CAN-FD 1.0.

DMA — SAM C20 series features a 6 channel DMA controller supporting memory and peripheral data transfer, while SAM C21 features a 12 channel DMA controller.

Scalability — Flash density ranges from 32 KB to 256 KB, package range from 32 pins to 64 pins (optional).

Low Power Consumption — Market-leading power-saving technology includes event systems that allow peripherals to communicate directly with each other without CPU intervention. Additionally, Atmel SleepWalking peripherals only wake the CPU when a predefined event occurs, thus reducing overall power consumption.

Peripheral Flexibility — Innovative Serial Communication Module (SERCOM) can be fully configured in software to handleI²C,USART/UART and SPI communication. With multipleSERCOM modules on the device, you can precisely customize peripheral combinations in your application.SAM D 21 has a working frequency of up to 3.4 MHz (also supportsI²S,PMBus and SMBus). SAM D11 andSAM D10 also supportIrDA.

DMA — SAM D21 MCU is equipped with an 8 channel DMA controller supporting memory and peripheral data transfer, while SAM D11 andSAM D10 are equipped with6 channel DMA controllers.

High Pin Utilization — SAM D11 only requires one power supply, maximizing the number of pins available for your application.

Full Speed USB — SAM D21 supports both USB embedded host and USB device modes, whileSAM D11 supports full-speed USB device mode. In device mode, it can use an internal RC oscillator to support full-speed USB, thereby reducing BOM costs and design complexity.

Atmel QTouch® Peripheral Touch Controller — provides built-in hardware support for buttons, sliders, wheels, and proximity sensing, supporting mutual capacitance and self-capacitance touch without external components. It has excellent sensitivity, noise resistance, and self-calibration features, allowing any user to adjust the margin.

Scalability — Flash density ranges from 8KB to 256KB, package range from 14 pins to 64 pins options.

Low Power Consumption —Market-leading power-saving technology includes 12 channel event systems that allow peripherals to communicate directly with each other without CPU intervention.Atmel Sleepwalking peripherals can limit clock and power, thereby reducing leakage and transitions, and only wake up the CPU when a specified event occurs, achieving 35 uA/MHz of ultra-low power in active mode,ULPBench score reaching185.8, reducing overall power consumption.

Peripheral Flexibility — Innovative Serial Communication Module (SERCOM) can be fully configured in software to handleI2C,USART/UART andSPI communication. With multipleSERCOM modules on the device, you can precisely customize peripheral combinations in your application.I2Ccan run at frequencies of up to 3.4 MHz (PMBus andSMBus also supported).SAM L22 also supports ISO7816 interface.

DMA — SAM L series features a 16 channel DMA controller supporting memory and peripheral data transfer.

Full Speed USB — SAM L21 supports both USB embedded host and USB device modes, whileSAM L22 supports full-speed USB device mode. Using an internal RC oscillator supports full-speed USB in device mode, thereby reducing BOM costs and design complexity.

Atmel QTouch® Peripheral Touch Controller —provides built-in hardware support for buttons, sliders, wheels, and proximity sensing, supporting mutual capacitance and self-capacitance touch without external components. It has excellent sensitivity, noise resistance, and self-calibration features, allowing any user to adjust the margin.

Scalability — Flash density ranges from 32 KB to 256 KB,SRAM up to40 kB, can choose 32 to100 pins package.

High Performance Architecture — When running at 300MHz, this ARM Cortex-M7 based MCU scores 1500 CoreMark.

Connectivity — Supports IEEE 1588 10/100Mbps Ethernet MAC, dual CAN, SD/MMC, high-speed devices and a complete set of high-speed serial peripherals, helping achieve fast data transmission.

Analog — Includes up to 24 channels of dual 12 bit ADC, with an analog front end, providing offset error correction and gain control, as well as an average resolution of up to 16 bits. Also includes 2 channels, 2Msps of 12 bit DAC.

Design Support — Using Atmel Studio integrated development platform (including Atmel Software Framework, a complete library consisting of source code, project examples, drivers, and stacks), shortens development time and reduces development costs.

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Highly Integrated — Atmel SAM4N microcontroller achieves fast serial communication with seven UART, four SPI and threeI2C interfaces. It also features additional features such as 12 bit ADC, 10bit DAC, integrated reference voltage, multiple timers,PWM, etc.

Low Power Consumption — Atmel SAM4N achieves the lowest power consumption with its low-power architecture: as low as170µA/MHz in active mode, supports RAM retention in sleep mode as low as 20µA, wake-up time only10µs, backup mode with RTC running as low as 1 µA.

Ease of Use — The software tool ecosystem and support for Atmel Studio 6 integrated development platform improve design efficiency and shorten time to market.

Numerous Peripherals, Unmatched Data Rates — Supports numerous peripherals including 10/100 Ethernet MAC,CAN,USB 2.0,USART,SPI,SSC,TWI,8 channel10 bit ADC. Architecture design maximizes processor performance and data transmission efficiency

Hardware Encryption/Decryption — Embedded withAES and Triple DES:AES operates at 80Mbps,DES operates at 32.8Mbps, Triple DES operates at 20Mbps.

Highly Integrated Design Reduces Costs and BOM —Integrating the ARM7TDMI processor with on-chip flash,SRAM, power management, reset management, and various peripheral functions into a single chip reduces the need for other expensive external components while achieving maximum flexibility. This brings you a streamlined bill of materials(BOM), faster development speed, and lower costs.

Comprehensive Ecosystem and Tools — To help accelerate development speed,SAM7X/XC microcontrollers have complete support from a global ecosystem consisting of development tools, operating systems, and protocol stacks provided by top industry providers.