SAM3X/A Description

Atmel’s SAM3X/A series is a member of a family of Flash microcontrollers based on the high performance 32-bit ARM Cortex-M3 RISC processor. It operates at a maximum speed of 84 MHz and features up to 512 Kbytes of Flash and up to 100 Kbytes of SRAM. The peripheral set includes a High Speed USB Host and Device port with embedded transceiver, an Ethernet MAC, 2x CANs, a High Speed MCI for SDIO/SD/MMC, an External Bus Interface with NAND Flash controller, 5x UARTs, 2x TWIs, 4x SPIs, as well as 1 PWM timer, 9x general-purpose 32-bit timers, an RTC, a 12-bit ADC and a 12-bit DAC.

Features

• Core

– ARM® Cortex®-M3 revision 2.0 running at up to 84 MHz

– Memory Protection Unit (MPU)

– Thumb®-2 instruction set

– 24-bit SysTick Counter

– Nested Vector Interrupt Controller

• Memories

– From 256 to 512 Kbytes embedded Flash, 128-bit wide access, memory accelerator, dual bank

– From 32 to 100 Kbytes embedded SRAM with dual banks

– 16 Kbytes ROM with embedded bootloader routines (UART, USB) and IAP routines

– Static Memory Controller (SMC): SRAM, NOR, NAND support. NAND Flash controller with 4-kbyte RAM buffer and ECC

• System

– Embedded voltage regulator for single supply operation

– POR, BOD and Watchdog for safe reset

– Quartz or ceramic resonator oscillators: 3 to 20 MHz main and optional low power 32.768 kHz for RTC or device clock.

– High precision 8/12 MHz factory trimmed internal RC oscillator with 4 MHz Default Frequency for fast device startup

– Slow Clock Internal RC oscillator as permanent clock for device clock in low power mode

– One PLL for device clock and one dedicated PLL for USB 2.0 High Speed Mini Host/Device

– Temperature Sensor

– Up to 17 peripheral DMA (PDC) channels and 6-channel central DMA plus dedicated DMA for High-Speed USB Mini Host/Device and Ethernet MAC

• Low Power Modes

– Sleep and Backup modes, down to 2.5 µA in Backup mode.

– Backup domain: VDDBU pin, RTC, eight 32-bit backup registers

– Ultra Low-power RTC

• Peripherals

– USB 2.0 Device/Mini Host: 480 Mbps, 4-kbyte FIFO, up to 10 bidirectional Endpoints, dedicated DMA

– Up to 4 USARTs (ISO7816, IrDA®, Flow Control, SPI, Manchester and LIN support) and one UART

– 2 TWI (I2C compatible), up to 6 SPIs, 1 SSC (I2S), 1 HSMCI (SDIO/SD/MMC) with up to 2 slots

– 9-Channel 32-bit Timer/Counter (TC) for capture, compare and PWM mode, Quadrature Decoder Logic and 2-bit Gray Up/Down Counter for Stepper Motor

– Up to 8-channel 16-bit PWM (PWMC) with Complementary Output, Fault Input, 12-bit Dead Time Generator Counter for Motor Control

– 32-bit Real Time Timer (RTT) and RTC with calendar and alarm features

– 16-channel 12-bit 1Msps ADC with differential input mode and programmable gain stage

– One 2-channel 12-bit 1 Msps DAC

– One Ethernet MAC 10/100 (EMAC) with dedicated DMA

– Two CAN Controller with eight Mailboxes

– One True Random Number Generator (TRNG)

– Write Protected Registers

• I/O

– Up to 103 I/O lines with external interrupt capability (edge or level sensitivity), debouncing, glitch filtering and on-die Series Resistor Termination

– Up to Six 32-bit Parallel Input/Outputs (PIO)

• Packages

– 100-lead LQFP, 14 x 14 mm, pitch 0.5 mm

– 100-ball LFBGA, 9 x 9 mm, pitch 0.8 mm

– 144-lead LQFP, 20 x 20 mm, pitch 0.5 mm

– 144-ball LFBGA, 10 x 10 mm, pitch 0.8 mm