Acmesystems YARM board

Support for the Acmesystems YARM board. More...

Detailed Description

Support for the Acmesystems YARM board.

Overview

Yarm is a smart and cost effective solution for system integrators to build their own RF applications at 868 MHz avoiding all the hardware design costs requested to start a new custom RF project.

Yarm integrates:

• a Microchip SAML21 low power MCU
• a Microchip ATA8510 radio module

See Acmesystems product page for more information.

In the provided configuration, stdio is available via USB. The board could be configured to provide it on the exposed UART instead, by defining

USEMODULE=stdio_uart

Depending on the connection to your PC, you will probably also need to set PORT_LINUX to a different value (default is /dev/ttyACM0), for instance

PORT_LINUX=/dev/ttyUSB0

Hardware

MCU

MCU	ATSAML21J18B
Family	ARM Cortex-M0+
Vendor	Microchip
RAM	32Kb
Flash	256Kb
Frequency	up to 48MHz
FPU	no
Timers	8 (16-bit)
ADCs	1x 12-bit (20 channels)
UARTs	x 6 (shared with SPI and I2C)
SPIs	max 6 (see UART)
I2Cs	max 6 (see UART)
Vcc	1.8V - 3.6V
Datasheet	Datasheet

RADIO

Transceiver	ATA8510
Vendor	Microchip
Sensitivity	-123dBm
Output power	-12dBm to +14.5dBm programmable in 0.4-dB steps ]
Datasheet	Datasheet

NOTE:* not all MCU interfaces are available on YARM; see the pinout to know more.

Implementation Status

Device	ID	Supported	Comments
MCU	saml21	partly	PLL clock not implemented
Low-level driver	GPIO	yes
	PWM	yes
	UART	yes
	I2C	yes
	SPI	yes
	USB	yes
	RTT	yes
	RTC	yes
	RNG	yes
	Timer	yes
	ADC	yes

Flashing the device

Both the MCU and the radio module are flashed using Atmel ICE, with the help of a small adapter. The software used is edbg, bundled with RIOT.

wiring

On Linux you might have to add a udev rule for Atmel ICE, like

bash
(
cat <<END
# Atmel-ICE JTAG/SWD in-circuit debugger
ATTRS{idVendor}=="03eb", ATTRS{idProduct}=="2141", MODE="664", GROUP="plugdev"
END
) | sudo tee -a /etc/udev/rules.d/99-atmel-ice.rules
sudo service udev restart

Supported Toolchains

Recommended toolchain for SAML21 is GNU Tools for ARM Embedded Processors. On Debian Buster, the default gcc-arm-none-eabi package works well.

Files
file	board.h
	Support for the Acmesystems YARM board.
file	periph_conf.h
	Peripheral MCU configuration for the Acmesystems YARM board.