ATSAM4E8EA-CU Part Information
Details for ATSAM4E8EA-CU by Microchip Technology
ATSAM4E8E
Part Description
For New Designs, we highly recommend to consider Revision B for Prototypes and Production. An ARM® Cortex®-M4 processor-based microcontroller (MCU), the SAM4E8E features a floating point unit and a high data bandwidth architecture and is targeted at industrial automation and building control applications. The device embeds 512KB Flash and features multiple networking/connectivity peripherals, including two 2.0A/B compatible CAN interfaces and an IEEE Std 1588-compatible 10/100Mbps Ethernet MAC. Additional communication interfaces include a FS USB device, a HS SDCard/SDIO/MMC interface, USARTs, SPIs and multiple TWIs. Analog features includes dual 1Msps, 16-bit ADCs of up to 24 channels with analog front end offering offset and gain error correction, and a 2-channel, 1Msps, 12-bit DAC. The SAM4E8E is available in 144-pin BGA and QFP package options.
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Part Features
- Microcontroller Features Core
- ARM Cortex-M4 with 2 Kbytes Cache running at up to 120 MHz
- Memory Protection Unit (MPU)
- DSP Instructions, Floating Point Unit (FPU), Thumb®-2 instruction set Memories
- 512 Kbytes Embedded Flash
- 128 Kbytes Embedded SRAM
- 16 Kbytes ROM with Embedded Boot Loader Routines (UART) and IAP Routines
- Static Memory Controller (SMC): SRAM, NOR, NAND Support
- NAND Flash Controller
- External Bus Interface: 8-bit Data, 4 Chip Selects, 24-bit Address System
- 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
- High-precision 8/16/24 MHz factory-trimmed internal RC oscillator. In-application trimming access for frequency adjustment
- Slow clock internal RC oscillator as permanent low-power mode device clock
- One 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)
- Up to 2 Peripheral DMA Controllers (PDC) with up to 33 Channels
- One 4-channel DMA Controller Low Power modes
- Sleep, Wait and Backup modes, down to 0.9 μA in Backup mode with RTC, RTT, and GPBR Package
- 144-ball LFBGA, 10x10 mm, pitch 0.8 mm
- 144-lead LQFP, 20x20 mm, pitch 0.5 mm Temperature operating range
- Revision A - Industrial (-40° C to +85° C), Revision B - (-40° C to +105° C) Peripheral Features
- Two USARTs with USART1 (ISO7816, IrDA®, RS-485, SPI, Manchester and Modem Modes)
- USB 2.0 Device: Full Speed (12 Mbits), 2668 byte FIFO, up to 8 Endpoints. On-chip Transceiver
- Two 2-wire UARTs
- Two 2-wire Interfaces (TWI)
- High-speed Multimedia Card Interface (SDIO/SD Card/MMC)
- One Master/Slave Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) with Chip Select Signals
- Three 3-channel 32-bit Timer/Counter blocks with Capture, Waveform, Compare and PWM Mode. Quadrature Decoder Logic and 2-bit Gray Up/Down Counter for Stepper Motor.
- 32-bit low-power Real-time Timer (RTT) and low-power Real-time Clock (RTC) with calendar and alarm features
- 256-bit General Purpose Backup Registers (GPBR)
- One Ethernet MAC (GMAC) 10/100 Mbps in MII mode only with dedicated DMA and Support for IEEE1588, Wake-on-LAN
- Two CAN Controllers with eight Mailboxes
- 4-channel 16-bit PWM with Complementary Output, Fault Input, 12-bit Dead Time Generator Counter for Motor Control.
- Real-time Event Management I/O
- Up to 117 I/O Lines with External Interrupt Capability (Edge or Level Sensitivity), Debouncing, Glitch Filtering
- Bidirectional Pad, Analog I/O, Programmable Pull-up/Pull-down
- Five 32-bit Parallel Input/Output Controllers, Peripheral DMA Assisted Parallel Capture Mode Cryptography
- AES 256-bit Key Algorithm compliant with FIPS Publication 197 Analog Features
- AFE (Analog Front End): 2x16-bit ADC, up to 24-channels, Differential Input Mode, Programmable Gain Stage, Auto Calibration and Automatic Offset Correction
- One 2-channel 12-bit 1 Msps DAC
- One Analog Comparator with Flexible Input Selection, Selectable Input Hysteresis Debugger Development Support
- 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. Integrated Software Libraries and Tools
- 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
Part Specifications
Family | ATSAM4E |
Part Family | ATSAM4E8E |
Part Prefix | SAM |
Architecture | 32 |
Core | Cortex-M4 |
MaxSpeed (MHz) | 120 |
CPU Type | Cortex-M4 |
CPU Speed (MIPS/DMIPS) | 150 |
FPU | Yes |
Program Memory Type | Flash |
SelfWrite | Yes |
Program Memory Size (KB) | 512 |
Program Memory Size (KWords) | 128 |
Auxiliary Flash (KB) | 0.512 |
Secure Bootloader (CodeGuard™ Security) | None |
RAM (bytes) | 131072 |
Direct Memory Access (DMA) Channels | 33 |
SDIO/SD-CARD/eMMC | 1 |
NAND Interface | Yes |
Temp. Range Min. | -40 |
Temp. Range Max. | 85 |
Operation Voltage Min.(V) | 1.62 |
Operation Voltage Max.(V) | 3.6 |
Max I/O Pins | 117 |
Pin Count | 144 |
Power On Reset (POR) | Yes |
Internal Voltage Reference (Bandgap) | Yes |
Internal Oscillator | 4,8,12Mhz,32Khz |
Number of Comparators | 1 |
Comparator max speed (ns) | 100 |
Number of ADCs | 2 |
ADC Channels | 24 |
Diff ADC Inputs | 12 |
Max ADC Sampling Rate (ksps) | 1000 |
Max ADC Resolution (bits) | 16 |
Max ADC Sample/Hold (S/H) | 1 |
Number of DACs | 1 |
DAC outputs | 2 |
Max DAC Resolution (bits) | 12 |
Programmable Gain Amp (PGA) | 1 |
Temp Sensor | Yes |
UART | 4 |
SPI™ | 3 |
I2C | 2 |
Max 8 Bit Digital Timers | 9 |
Max 16 Bit Digital Timers | 9 |
Max 32 Bit Digital Timers | 4 |
Hardware RTCC | Yes |
Timers | 9 |
Stand alone PWM | 4 |
Input Capture | 18 |
Max # PWM outputs (including complementary outputs) | 8 |
PWM Max Resolution (bits) | 16 |
Output Compare Channels | 18 |
Number of USB Modules | 1 |
USB Interface | None |
Number of CAN Modules | 2 |
Type of CAN module | None |
IrDA | Yes |
Ethernet | 10/100 Base-TX Mac |
Integrated Wireless Frequency | None |
Wireless Technology | None |
Quadrature Encoder Interface (QEI) | 2 |
Peripheral Pin Select (PPS)/Pin Muxing | Yes |
Parallel Port | EBI |
Crypto Engine | Yes |
JTAG | Debug/Program/Boundary Scan |
Debug Interface | JTAG/SWD |
Temperature Range | -40C to +85C |
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