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