Atmel brings news Cortex-M0+ family to market
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Said to be the first series in a new family of embedded flash microcontrollers based on the ARM Cortex-M0+ core, The SAM D20 is targeted at home automation, consumer, smart metering and industrial applications.
Key features of the SAM D20 Series include high precision 12bit analogue and internal oscillators, up to eight 16bit timer/counters, real time performance, peripheral event system and flexible clocking options and sleep modes.
The devices also include a serial communication module (sercom) that can be configured from the application to act as an usart, uart, spi and i2c. The company says each member of the family includes four to six sercoms. Devices also support button, slider and wheel touch capability, as well as proximity, without the need for external components.
There will be 14 devices in the SAM D20 range, with a choice of 32, 48 and 64pin packages and flash capacities ranging from 16 to 256kbyte. The parts can run at up to 48MHz and power consumption is said to be less than 150µA/MHz.
Samples of 128kbyte 32pin, and 256kbyte 48 and 64pin products are available in qfn and qfp packages.
