SAM 4 Arm^® Cortex^®-M4-Based Microcontrollers (MCUs)

Key Features

• CPU clock speed: 120 MHz
• Up to 1024 KB Flash
• 2 KB of cache memory
• Up to 128 KB SRAM
• ·Connectivity: 10/100 Mbps Ethernet MAC supporting IEEE^® 1588, dual CAN, Full-Speed USB
• Wide range of peripherals: USART, UART, SPI
• Advanced Analog: Dual 1 Msps, 12-bit Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs) up to 16-bit with averaging, up to 24 channels with analog front end, offering offset error correction and gain control
• One two-channel 12-bit 1 Msps Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC)
• Four-channel 16-bit Pulse-Width Modulator (PWM) with complementary output
• Single precision Floating Point Unit (FPU)

Target Applications

• Industrial automation
• Machine-to-machine communications
• Home and building control applications
• Automotive
• Energy management applications

Key Features 

• CPU clock speed: 48 MHz
• Up to 512 KB Flash
• Up to  64 KB SRAM
• picoPower^® technology for ultra-low power consumption, enabling long battery life
  • Active mode down to 90 µA/MHz with configurable voltage scaling
  • High performance and efficiency: 28 Coremark^®/mA
  • Wait mode down to 3 µA with fast wake-up time (< 1.5 µs)
  • Full RAM and logic retention mode down to 1.5 µA with fast wake-up time (< 1.5 µs)
• Embedded hardware capacitive touch module based on QTouch^® technology for fast development of touch and proximity functionality
• Wide range of peripherals: Full-Speed USB host and device, 128-bit AES, USART, SPI, I²C, Event System

Key Applications

• Power-sensitive designs in
  • Industrial
  • Health care
  • Consumer

Key Features

• CPU clock speed: 100 MHz
• Up to 1024 KB Flash
• Up to 80 KB SRAM
• Serial communication: Seven UARTs, four SPIs, three I²Cs
• One 10-bit Analog-to-Digital Converter ADC up to 510 ksps (up to 12-bit with digital averaging)
• One 10-bit 1 Msps Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC) -
• Low-power modes: Sleep, Wait and Backup down to 0.7 µA in backup mode with Real-time Clock (RTC), Real-time Timer (RTT) and General Purpose Backup Registers (GPBRs)
• Easy migration within the portfolio of products
  • Pin-to-pin compatibility with SAM 4S, SAM 3S, SAM 3N and SAM 7S devices

Key Applications

• Industrial automation
• Consumer applications
• Appliances
• Energy meters

Key Features

• CPU clock speed: 120 MHz
• Up to 2048 KB Flash, dual bank, 2 KB cache memory 
• Up to 160 KB SRAM
• Low-power modes: Sleep, Wait and Backup; consumption down to 1 µA in Backup mode
• Safety and security:
• Integrated best-in-class hardware code protection: Prevents access to on-chip memory to protect your Intellectual Property (IP)
• Supports secure device reconditioning (chip erase) for reprogramming
• Unique 128-bit ID and scrambled external bus interface ensure software confidentiality
• Hardware Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) to check memory integrity
• Pin-to-pin and software compatible with SAM 3 Arm Cortex-M3 processor-based MCUs, offering a smooth upwards migration path for performance and memory size

Key Applications

• Industrial control
• Consumer applications
• PC peripherals

Microchip Studio is the integrated development platform (IDP) for developing and debugging all AVR^® and SAM MCU applications. Microchip Studio gives you a seamless and easy-to-use environment to write, build and debug your applications written in C/C++ or assembly code. It also connects seamlessly to the debuggers, programmers and development kits that support SAM devices.

ASF3 is an MCU software library providing a large collection of embedded software SAM MCUs. It is integrated in Microchip Studio IDE with a graphical user interface or available as stand-alone for GCC and IAR compilers.

The Arm GNU Toolchain is a collection of tools/libraries used to create applications for Arm processor-based MCUs. This collection includes compilers, assemblers, linkers and standard C, C++ and math libraries.