3.2 Design Documentation and Relevant Links

The following list contains links to the most relevant documents and software for the SAM E54 Xplained Pro.

  • Xplained products - Xplained evaluation kits are a series of easy-to-use evaluation kits for Microchip microcontrollers and other Microchip products.
    • Xplained Nano: used for low pin-count devices and provides a minimalistic solution with access to all I/O pins of the target microcontroller.
    • Xplained Mini: used for medium pin-count devices and adds Arduino Uno compatible header footprint and a prototyping area.
    • Xplained Pro: used for medium to high pin-count devices that features advanced debugging and standardized extensions for peripheral functions.
    Note: All the above kits have on-board programmers/debuggers, which creates a set of low-cost boards for evaluation and demonstration of features and capabilities of different Microchip products.
  • Atmel Studio - Free IDE for the development of C/C++ and assembler code for microcontrollers.
  • 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.
  • QTouch® tools - A collection of tools to design capacitive touch applications.
  • http://start.atmel.com/ - Atmel START is an online tool to help you select and configure software components and tailor your embedded application in a usable and optimized manner.
  • Data Visualizer - Data Visualizer is a program used for processing and visualizing data. The Data Visualizer can receive data from various sources such as the Embedded Debugger Data Gateway Interface found on Xplained Pro boards and COM Ports.
  • SAM E54 Xplained Pro website - Kit information, latest user guide and design documentation.
  • SAM E54 Xplained Pro on Microchip Direct - Purchase this kit on Microchip Direct.