SAMD5x MCU Family Reference
This page connects you with all the information you need to evaluate and design with Microchip's 32-bit SAM D5x family of microcontrollers.
Family Overview
| SAMD51 | The SAM D5x series (Cortex®-M4 RISC processor with Floating Point Unit (FPU)) has up to 1 MB of dual panel flash with ECC, and up to 256 KB of SRAM with ECC. It also supports five low power modes with a class-leading 65 µA/MHz active power consumption. This series is loaded with peripherals. It has a Quad Serial Peripheral Interface (QSPI) with Execute in Place (XIP) support, up to two Secure Digital Host Controller (SDHC) for eMMC/SDIO/SD, up to eight Serial communication (SERCOM) ports configurable as UART/USART, ISO 7816, SPI or I2C, Full-Speed USB with embedded Host/Device, dual 12-bit 1 MSPS ADC with up to 32 channels; Dual 12-bit 1 MSPS DAC, and hardware capacitive touch support with QTouch® Peripheral Touch Controller (PTC) supporting up to 256 channels. It also has integrated security features including AES hardware encryption engines, a true random number generator (TRNG) and SHA-based memory integrity checker. - Cortex-M4F core @ 120 MHz - Low power & Full-Speed USB with lots of memory |
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Family Specialty:
- Low power and Full-Speed USB
- Large memory (up to 1 MB dual panel flash and 256 KB SRAM)
Popular Development Boards
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 SAM E54 Xplained Pro
Evaluation Kit |
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SAM D5x devices are similar to SAM E5x without the CAN and Ethernet interfaces. They share this one Xplained Pro development board.
Software Development
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Installation
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 Atmel® Studio
Integrated Development Environment |
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Advanced Software Framework v3 (ASF3)
Integrated Software Framework |
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Atmel® START (ASF4)
Integrated Software Framework |
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 SAM-ICE™
JTAG In-Circuit Emulator |
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 Atmel® ICE
In-Circuit Emulator |
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Training & References
- Data sheets