NEWS! Working (beta) ATSAMD51 board support package (BSP) for @arduino #arduino @MicrochipMakes

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Wow! Great news for the Arduino community today, we’ve got a working (beta) ATSAMD51 board support package (BSP) going, for the new Cortex M4 chips from Microchip.

Thanks to Arduino Team for merging in an update to the CMSIS Microchip file that includes ATSAMD51 files, as well as bumping up the bossac firmware tool, also needed for this new chipset.

These fancy chips are similar to the ATSAMD21 in many ways (e.g. nearly pin compatible, familiar peripherals), but are SUPER POWERFUL.

  • Cortex M4 core running at 120 MHz
  • Hardware DSP and floating point support
  • Up to 1 MByte flash, 256 KB RAM
  • Dual 1 MSPS DAC
  • Dual 1 MSPS ADC (with many muxed inputs)
  • 6+ SERCOMs, each one can be hardware SPI/UART/I2C
  • Parallel Camera Capture, can connect ‘raw’ camera sensors and transfer in a full image
  • QSPI flash memory support
  • Built in crypto engines with AES (256 bit), true RNG, Pubkey controller
  • SD/MMC controller
  • “configurable custom logic” – this one is particularly interesting/weird, you get latches and LUT you can link up
  • PDEC – rotary encoder hardware support
  • Lots o Timers and waveform generators, can do stuff like DMA 8 strands of NeoPixels https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_NeoPXL8
  • DMA, DMA, DMA!

These chips are now available from your favorite distributor, and are very attractively priced compared to STM32 and Freescale chips. As you can imagine, we’ve pushed out the BSP because we’ve got some designs coming out soon.

You can sign up here https://www.adafruit.com/product/3382 and get notified when the first boards come out of the oven 🙂

You can pick up our board support from https://adafruit.github.io/arduino-board-index/package_adafruit_index.json

Fixes, issues and kudos go here https://github.com/adafruit/ArduinoCore-samd


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