ATSAM3A4CA-CU

MCU 32Bit SAM3A ARM Cortex M3 RISC 256KB Flash 1.8V/2.5V/3.3V 100Pin LFBGA

SAM3X/A Description

Atmel’s SAM3X/A series is a member of a family of Flash microcontrollers based on the high performance 32-bit ARM Cortex-M3 RISC processor. It operates at a maximum speed of 84 MHz and features up to 512 Kbytes of Flash and up to 100 Kbytes of SRAM. The peripheral set includes a High Speed USB Host and Device port with embedded transceiver, an Ethernet MAC, 2x CANs, a High Speed MCI for SDIO/SD/MMC, an External Bus Interface with NAND Flash controller, 5x UARTs, 2x TWIs, 4x SPIs, as well as 1 PWM timer, 9x general-purpose 32-bit timers, an RTC, a 12-bit ADC and a 12-bit DAC.

Features

• Core

   – ARM® Cortex®-M3 revision 2.0 running at up to 84 MHz

   – Memory Protection Unit MPU

   – Thumb®-2 instruction set

   – 24-bit SysTick Counter

   – Nested Vector Interrupt Controller

• Memories

   – From 256 to 512 Kbytes embedded Flash, 128-bit wide access, memory accelerator, dual bank

   – From 32 to 100 Kbytes embedded SRAM with dual banks

   – 16 Kbytes ROM with embedded bootloader routines UART, USB and IAP routines

   – Static Memory Controller SMC: SRAM, NOR, NAND support. NAND Flash controller with 4-kbyte RAM buffer and ECC

• System

   – Embedded voltage regulator for single supply operation

   – POR, BOD and Watchdog for safe reset

   – Quartz or ceramic resonator oscillators: 3 to 20 MHz main and optional low power 32.768 kHz for RTC or device clock.

   – High precision 8/12 MHz factory trimmed internal RC oscillator with 4 MHz Default Frequency for fast device startup

   – Slow Clock Internal RC oscillator as permanent clock for device clock in low power mode

   – One PLL for device clock and one dedicated PLL for USB 2.0 High Speed Mini Host/Device

   – Temperature Sensor

   – Up to 17 peripheral DMA PDC channels and 6-channel central DMA plus dedicated DMA for High-Speed USB Mini Host/Device and Ethernet MAC

• Low Power Modes

   – Sleep and Backup modes, down to 2.5 µA in Backup mode.

   – Backup domain: VDDBU pin, RTC, eight 32-bit backup registers

   – Ultra Low-power RTC

• Peripherals

   – USB 2.0 Device/Mini Host: 480 Mbps, 4-kbyte FIFO, up to 10 bidirectional Endpoints, dedicated DMA

   – Up to 4 USARTs ISO7816, IrDA®, Flow Control, SPI, Manchester and LIN support and one UART

   – 2 TWI I2C compatible, up to 6 SPIs, 1 SSC I2S, 1 HSMCI SDIO/SD/MMC with up to 2 slots

   – 9-Channel 32-bit Timer/Counter TC for capture, compare and PWM mode, Quadrature Decoder Logic and 2-bit Gray Up/Down Counter for Stepper Motor

   – Up to 8-channel 16-bit PWM PWMC with Complementary Output, Fault Input, 12-bit Dead Time Generator Counter for Motor Control

   – 32-bit Real Time Timer RTT and RTC with calendar and alarm features

   – 16-channel 12-bit 1Msps ADC with differential input mode and programmable gain stage

   – One 2-channel 12-bit 1 Msps DAC

   – One Ethernet MAC 10/100 EMAC with dedicated DMA

   – Two CAN Controller with eight Mailboxes

   – One True Random Number Generator TRNG

   – Write Protected Registers

• I/O

   – Up to 103 I/O lines with external interrupt capability edge or level sensitivity, debouncing, glitch filtering and on-die Series Resistor Termination

   – Up to Six 32-bit Parallel Input/Outputs PIO

• Packages

   – 100-lead LQFP, 14 x 14 mm, pitch 0.5 mm

   – 100-ball LFBGA, 9 x 9 mm, pitch 0.8 mm

   – 144-lead LQFP, 20 x 20 mm, pitch 0.5 mm

   – 144-ball LFBGA, 10 x 10 mm, pitch 0.8 mm