33.2 Overview

The Unified Program and Debug Interface (UPDI) is an proprietary interface for external programming and on-chip debugging of a device.

The UPDI supports programming of nonvolatile memory (NVM) space; FLASH, EEPROM, fuses, lockbits and the user row. In addition the UPDI can access the entire I/O and data space of the device. See the NVM Controller documentation for programming via the NVM controller and executing NVM controller commands.

Programming and debugging is done through the UPDI Physical interface (UPDI PHY), which is a 1-wire UART based half-duplex interface using the RESET pin for data reception and transmission. Clocking of UPDI PHY is done by an internal oscillator. Enabling of the 1-wire interface, by disabling the reset functionality, is either done by 12V programming or by fusing the RESET pin to UPDI by setting the RESET Pin Configuration (RSTPINCFG) bits in FUSE.SYSCFG0. The UPDI Access layer grants access to the Bus Matrix, with memory mapped access to system blocks such as Memories, NVM, and peripherals.

The Asynchronous System Interface (ASI) provides direct interface access to On-Chip Debugging (OCD), NVM and System Management features. This gives the debugger direct access to system information, without requesting bus access.