The Microchip's ARM®-based SAM4S8 microcontroller builds on the high-performance 32-bit ARM®-based Cortex®-M4 core. The SAM4S8 features:
- Maximum operating speed of 120MHz
- 512KB of flash memoryand 128KB of SRAM
- 1.62V to 3.6V supply
- Power consumption 200µA/MHz in dynamic mode at low operating frequency, 30mA at 100MHz and 3µA at 1.8V in back-up mode with the RTC running
- External bus interface supports SRAM, PSRAM, NOR Flash, LCD module and NAND Flash
- Extensive peripheral set for connectivity, system control and analog interfacing
- Native support for Microchip QTouch™ capacitive touch technology for implementation of buttons, sliders and wheels
- Pin-to-pin compatible with Microchip SAM7S, SAM3N and SAM3S MCUs
- Parallel Input/Output (IO) data capture mode
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Feature
- ARM Cortex-M4 running at up to 120 MHz
- Memory Protection Unit (MPU)
- DSP Instructions, Thumb®-2 instruction set
- 1024 Kbytes embedded Flash, ECC, Security Bit and Lock Bits
- 128 Kbytes embedded SRAM
- 16 Kbytes ROM with embedded boot loader routines (UART, USB) and IAP routines
- 8-bit Static Memory Controller (SMC): SRAM, PSRAM, NOR and NAND Flash support
- External Bus Interface - 8-bit data, 4 chip selects, 24-bit address
- Embedded voltage regulator for single-supply operation
- Power-on-Reset (POR), Brown-out Detector (BOD) and Dual Watchdog for Safe Operation
- Quartz or ceramic resonator oscillators: 3 to 20 MHz with clock failure detection and 32.768 kHz for RTT or system clock
- RTC with Gregorian and Persian Calendar Mode, Waveform Generation in Backup mode
- RTC counter calibration circuitry compensates for 32.768 kHz crystal frequency inaccuracy
- Slow clock internal RC oscillator as permanent low-power mode device clock
- High-precision 8/12 MHz factory-trimmed internal RC oscillator with 4 MHz default frequency for device startup, in-application trimming access for frequency adjustment
- Two PLL up to 240 MHz for Device Clock and for USB
- Temperature Sensor
- Low-power tamper detection on two inputs, anti-tampering by immediate clear of general-purpose backup registers (GPBR)
- 22 Peripheral DMA Controllers
- Sleep, Wait and Backup modes; consumption down to 1 μA in Backup mode
- 100-lead LQFP, 14 x 14 mm, pitch 0.5 mm
- 100-lead TFBGA, 9 x 9 mm, pitch 0.8 mm
- 100-lead VFBGA, 7 x 7 mm, pitch 0.65 mm
- Revision A - Industrial (-40° C to +85° C), Revision B -(-40° C to +105° C)
- USB 2.0 Device: 12 Mbps, 2668 byte FIFO, up to 8 bidirectional Endpoints, on-chip transceiver
- Up to two USARTs with ISO7816, IrDA®, RS-485, SPI, Manchester and Modem Mode
- Two 2-wire UARTs
- Up to two 2-Wire Interface modules (I2C-compatible), one SPI, one Serial Synchronous Controller (I2S), one high-speed Multimedia Card Interface (SDIO/SD Card/MMC)
- Two 3-channel 16-bit Timer Counters with capture, waveform, compare and PWM mode, Quadrature decoder logic and 2-bit Gray up/down counter for stepper motor
- 4-channel 16-bit PWM with complementary output, fault input, 12-bit dead time generator counter for motor control
- 32-bit Real-time Timer and RTC with calendar, alarm and 32 kHz trimming features
- 256-bit General Purpose Backup Registers (GPBR)
- 32-bit Cyclic Redundancy Check Calculation Unit (CRCCU) for data integrity check of off-/on-chip memories
- 79 I/O Lines with external interrupt capability (edge or level sensitivity), debouncing, glitch filtering and on-die series resistor termination
- Three 32-bit Parallel Input/Output Controllers, Peripheral DMA-assisted Parallel Capture mode
- 16-channel, 1Msps ADC with differential input mode and programmable gain stage and auto calibration
- One 2-channel 12-bit 1Msps DAC
- One Analog Comparator with flexible input selection, selectable input hysteresis
- Serial Wire/JTAG Debug Port(SWJ-DP)
- Debug access to all memories and registers in the system, including Cortex-M4 register bank when the core is running, halted, or held in reset.
- Serial Wire Debug Port (SW-DP) and Serial Wire JTAG Debug Port (SWJ-DP) debug access.
- Flash Patch and Breakpoint (FPB) unit for implementing breakpoints and code patches.
- Data Watchpoint and Trace (DWT) unit for implementing watchpoints, data tracing, and system profiling.
- Instrumentation Trace Macrocell (ITM) for support of printf style debugging.
- IEEE1149.1 JTAG Boundary-scan on all digital pins.
- ASF-Atmel software Framework – SAM software development framework
- Integrated in the Atmel Studio IDE with a graphical user interface or available as standalone for GCC, IAR compilers.
- DMA support, Interrupt handlers Driver support
- USB, TCP/IP, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, Numerous USB classes, DHCP and Wi-Fi encryption Stacks
- RTOS integration, FreeRTOS is a core component
