With SOMs, creating an industrial-grade microprocessor (MPU)-based system doesn’t have to be complicated. SOMs simplify your design by integrating power management, nonvolatile boot memory, an Ethernet PHY and high-speed (LP) DDRx memory onto a small, single-sided Printed Circuit Board (PCB). The different modules offer a range of features including wireless connectivity and on-board NAND Flash. SOMs use a common set of Microchip components and limit the design rules of the main application board, reducing overall PCB complexity and cost. They have castellated mounting holes to enable easy hand soldering in your initial prototyping phase and automated board-to-board soldering in production.
SOMs are supported by a comprehensive development environment through our mainline Linux® OS distribution and our MPLAB® development ecosystem to help you design your end product at the bare-metal or RTOS level.
SAMA5D27 SOM
Key Features
- Arm Cortex-A5-based SAMA5D27 processor
- 1 Gb (128 MB) DDR2 DRAM
- On-board power management unit
- Single 3.3V supply
- Pre-programmed EUI-48™ MAC address
- Industrial temperature range (−40 to 85°C)
- 40 × 38 mm module, 0.8 mm pitch
SAMA5D27 Wireless SOM
Key Features
- Arm Cortex-A5-based SAMA5D2 processor
- 2 Gb (256 MB) LPDDR2 DRAM
- Wi-Fi® and Bluetooth® wireless connectivity
- On-board power management unit
- ATECC608A secure element
- Single 3V to 5.5V supply
- Pre-programmed EUI-48 MAC address
- Industrial temperature range (−40 to 85°C)
- 40.8 × 40.8 mm module, 0.8 mm pitch
SAM9X60 SOM
Key Features
- Arm ARM926EJ-S CPU-based MPU
- 128 MB, 200 MHz DD2
- 4 Gb NAND on-board Flash
- One Ethernet port, one SD™/e-MMC™ port, two high-speed USB ports and one full-speed USB port
- 24-bit LCD with overlays
- Camera interface
- Resistive touch
- Up to two CAN ports and up to seven UARTs
- 2.7–5.5V single VDD
- 28 mm × 28 mm, 152-pin castellated, hand-solderable package
SAM9X75D2GN4 SOM
Key Features
- Arm ARM926EJ-S CPU-based MPU
- 256 MB DDR3L
- 4 Gb NAND and 64 Mb QSPI Flash with Embedded EUI-48™ and EUI-64™ MAC Addresses
- Gb Ethernet Tx
- Power management unit
- 3.3V–5.5V single VDD
- 35 × 30 mm, 174-pin, 0.65 mm pad pitch, hand-solderable package
Resources to Build Your Design
You can hand solder the SOM on a motherboard and take your project to production or take advantage of the free schematics, design and Gerber files and complete Bill of Materials (BOM) that are available in the Documentation section of our SOM product pages to create a reference design. You can also easily transition from the SOM to a System-in-Package (SiP) or to a discrete MPU, depending on your design needs. No matter which option you select, these devices are backed by our client-driven obsolescence practice of continuing to supply a product for as long as possible and while demand for the product exists.
Evaluation Kits
Software Tools
Our software solutions let you take full advantages of our silicon by providing a simple, transparent development experience. Easily build your project using either our MPLAB X Harmony environment for bare metal and RTOS development or our mainline Linux OS distribution.
MPLAB X IDE and MPLAB Harmony Software Framework
The MPLAB development ecosystem is a single tool chain supporting all PIC® microcontrollers (MCUs) and SAM MCUs and MPUs. The tight integration between MPLAB X IDE and MPLAB X Harmony embedded software framework produces an enhanced development environment so that you can focus on creating and debugging your application-specific code on our MPUs.
MPLAB® X Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
A single Integrated Development Environment (IDE) supporting all PIC and SAM MCUs and MPUs
MPLAB® Xpress Cloud-Based IDE
An online development environment that contains the most popular features of our award-winning MPLAB X IDE
MPLAB® Harmony v3 Software Framework
A fully integrated embedded software development framework for our 32-bit MCUs and MPUs that provides flexible and interoperable software modules and easy-to-use APIs to simplify the development of value-added features to differentiate your product
MPLAB® XC Compiler
A comprehensive solution for your software development that integrates with MPLAB X IDE to provide a full graphical front end
MPLAB X IDE also comes with Microchip Graphics Suite for Harmony for creating professional-looking embedded Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs). This tightly integrated system of tools and software allows you to add GUIs, animation and imagery quickly and easily to a graphical display.
Linux OS
All our Linux development code is mainlined in the Linux communities, providing you full access to source code and long-term support. This also opens the door to the world’s largest developer community, providing access to qualified software engineers who can assist with your MPU-based projects.
You can also benefit from our Microchip Graphics Suite for Linux, a free open-source C++ GUI development tool that provides a great user experience and a high-quality look and feel.
Add Security to Your MPUs
If you connect your system to a network or want to protect your brand, security is a key requirement and ultimately a strategic asset. We can help you secure your design with options ranging from our advanced embedded security implementations on our MPUs to a segmented processing element known as a secure enclave.
Whether you need cloud provisioning, secured communication, certificate management, system resilience, data authentication, secure boot or secrets storage, you can depend on us to find and implement the right security measures easily.
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