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Atmel SAM D20 Xplained Pro

Support for the Atmel SAM D20 Xplained Pro board.

Support for the Atmel SAM D20 Xplained Pro board.

Overview

The SAMD20 Xplained Pro is an ultra-low power evaluation board by Atmel featuring an ATSAMD20J18 SoC. The SoC includes a SAMD20 ARM Cortex-M0+ micro- controller. For programming the MCU comes with 32Kb of RAM and 256Kb of flash memory.

Hardware

samd20-xpro image

MCU

MCUATSAMD20J18A
FamilyARM Cortex-M0+
VendorAtmel
RAM32 KiB
Flash256 KiB
Frequencyup to 48MHz
FPUno
Timers8 (16-bit)
ADCs1x 12-bit (20 channels)
UARTsmax 6 (shared with SPI and I2C)
SPIsmax 6 (see UART)
I2Csmax 6 (see UART)
Vcc1.62V - 3.63V
DatasheetDatasheet
Board ManualBoard Manual

User Interface

1 User button and 1 LED:

DevicePIN
LED0PA14
SW0 (button)PA15

Flashing the device

Connect the device to your Micro-USB cable using the port labeled as DEBUG USB.

The standard method for flashing RIOT to the samd20-xpro is using edbg by calling:

Terminal window
make BOARD=samd20-xpro -C tests/leds flash

Note that on Linux, you will need libudev-dev package to be installed.

Users can also use openOCD to flash and/or debug the board using:

Terminal window
PROGRAMMER=openocd make BOARD=samd20-xpro -C tests/leds flash

On Linux you will have to add a udev rule for hidraw, like

Terminal window
echo 'KERNEL=="hidraw*", SUBSYSTEM=="hidraw", MODE="0664", GROUP="plugdev"' \
| sudo tee -a /etc/udev/rules.d/99-usb.rules
sudo service udev restart

Arch Linux

With yaourt:

Terminal window
yaourt -S libudev0
yaourt -S hidapi-git
yaourt -S openocd-git
# edit PKGBUILD, add "cmsis-dap hidapi-libusb" to "_features"

Ubuntu

Although this refers to setting up the SAMR21, this guide is still very helpful to understanding how to set up a solid RIOT development environment for the SAMD20: http://watr.li/samr21-dev-setup-ubuntu.html