2.2 Design Documentation and Relevant Links

The following list contains links to the most relevant documents and software for the SAM L21 Xplained Pro.

  • Xplained products - Atmel Xplained evaluation kits are a series of easy-to-use evaluation kits for Atmel microcontrollers and other Atmel products. For low pin-count devices the Xplained Nano series provides a minimalistic solution with access to all I/O pins of the target microcontroller. Xplained Mini kits are for medium pin-count devices and adds Arduino Uno compatible header footprint and a prototyping area. Xplained Pro kits are for medium to high pin-count devices, they features advanced debugging and standardized extensions for peripheral functions. All these kits have on board programmers/debuggers which creates a set of low-cost boards for evaluation and demonstration of features and capabilities of different Atmel products.
  • Atmel Studio - Free Atmel IDE for development of C/C++ and assembler code for Atmel microcontrollers.
  • Atmel sample store - Atmel sample store where you can order samples of devices.
  • EDBG User Guide - User guide containing more information about the on-board Embedded Debugger.
  • IAR Embedded Workbench® for ARM® - This is a commercial C/C++ compiler that is available for ARM®. There is a 30 day evaluation version as well as a code size limited kick-start version available from their website. The code size limit is 16KB for devices with M0, M0+, and M1 cores and 32KB for devices with other cores.
  • Atmel QTouch® Library PTC - QTouch Library for Atmel AVR® and ARM®-based microcontrollers.
  • Atmel QTouch® Composer - Tool for developing capacitive buttons, sliders, and wheels applications.
  • Atmel Data Visualizer - Atmel Data Visualizer is a program used for processing and visualizing data. Data Visualizer can receive data from various sources such as the Embedded Debugger Data Gateway Interface found on Xplained Pro boards and COM ports.
  • Design Documentation - Package containing CAD source, schematics, BOM, assembly drawings, 3D plots, layer plots etc.
  • Hardware Users Guide in PDF format - PDF version of this User Guide.
  • SAM L21 Xplained Pro on the Atmel website - Atmel website link.