Ready-to-Use Development Board plus Tools, Operating Systems and Protocol Stacks Accelerate Programming of SAM3U ARM Cortex-M3 Based Flash MCU
SAN JOSE, Calif., July 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today the availability of the SAM3U-EK Evaluation Kit for rapid application development on the industry's first ARM(R) Cortex(R) -M3 based Flash microcontroller with high-speed 480 Mbps USB + Phy. In addition to a plug-and-play socket for the high-speed USB device it features a high speed SDIO/SDCard/MMC slot, two UART connectors, a ZigBee(R) radio header, two analog inputs, audio in- and outputs and a JTAG-ICE debug port. For application development purposes, the SAM3U-EK board contains a 240 x 320 TFT color LCD display with resistive touch-panel and backlight, 3D accelerometer and temperature sensor, potentiometer, on-board 512K x 16-bit PSRAM and 2G-bit x8 or x16 NAND Flash Memories, 12MHz and 32KHz clock sources and a backup battery.
On power-up, the SAM3U-EK runs an interactive demonstration that takes advantage of its touch screen capability. This enables the user to experience some of the outstanding features of the SAM3U and the Evaluation Kit. This demonstration includes a facility that enables the SAM3U-EK to be connected to the high-speed USB port of a PC, where it is viewed as a USB key. Product documentation, sound and image samples and demonstration software may be downloaded from it and viewed on the display.
For application development, the SAM3U-EK plugs directly into a PC where it is supported by a wide range of tools, debuggers, operating systems and protocol stacks from industry-leading third party suppliers, including the following:
IAR Development Toolchain
Anders Flodin, Director of Business Development, IAR(R) Systems(R) AB, commented, "IAR offers the unique toolchain for all Atmel microcontroller families. Supporting the SAM3U is a manifestation of our long term relationship with Atmel giving customers the tightest level of integration. We provide fully tested implementations and world-wide support with the IAR Embedded Workbench(R) development toolchain, IAR PowerPac(TM) RTOS and middleware products. The IAR Systems software implementation, including the High Speed USB device stack and SDCard drivers, utilizes the DMA and distributed memory architecture to sustain the 100+ Mbps data rates." More information about IAR products and services can be found at www.iar.com.
Micrium uC/OS-II Operating System and Protocol Stacks
According to Jean Labrosse, President and CEO of Micrium, "Use of Micrium's RTOS with the SAM3U highlights our strength and expertise in the Cortex-M3 space.
