Microchip Technology ATSAM4C-EK

Description

The SAM4CP series belongs to Atmel® │SMART energy portfolio. It is based on SAM4C, a high performance 32-bit, dual core ARM® Cortex®-M4 RISC processor embedding a PRIME PLC [Power Line Communication] modem. The cores are able to operate at a maximum speed of 120 MHz, featuring 1 Mbyte of embedded Flash, 128 kBytes of SRAM and on-chip cache for each core.
SAM4CP unique dual ARM Cortex-M4 architecture supports implementation of signal processing, application and communications firmware in independent partitions. SAM4CP16B system-on-chip includes a PRIME modem, being PRIME [PoweR line Intelligent Metering Evolution] an open standard technology used for Smart Grid applications, mainly Smart Metering. Atmel PRIME modem implementation includes enhanced PHY layer features such as additional robust modes and frequency band extension.

Features

● Application/Master Core (CM4P0)
● ARM Cortex-M4 running at up to 120 MHz(1)
● Memory Protection Unit (MPU)
● DSP Instruction
● Thumb®-2 instruction set
● Instruction and Data Cache Controller with 2 Kbytes Cache Memory
● Memories
● 1024 Kbytes of Embedded Flash for Program Code (I-Code bus) and Program Data
(D-Code bus)
with Built-in ECC (2-bit error detection and 1-bit correction per 128 bits)
● 128 Kbytes of Embedded SRAM (SRAM0) for Program Data (System bus)
● 8 Kbytes of ROM with embedded boot loader routines (UART) and In-Application
Programming (IAP) routines
● Co-processor (CM4P1), provides ability to separate application, communication or metrology
functions
● ARM Cortex-M4F running at up to 120 MHz
● IEEE® 754 Compliant, Single precision Floating-Point Unit (FPU)
● DSP Instruction
● Thumb-2 instruction set
● Instruction and Data Cache Controller with 2 Kbytes Cache Memory
● Memories
● 16 Kbytes of Embedded SRAM (SRAM1) for Program Code (I-Code bus) and
Program Data (D-Code bus and System bus)
● 8 Kbytes of Embedded SRAM (SRAM2) for Program Data (System bus)
● Symmetrical/Asynchronous Dual Core Architecture
● Interrupt-based Interprocessor Communication
● Asynchronous Clocking
● One Interrupt Controller (NVIC) for each core
● Each Peripheral IRQ routed to each NVIC Input
● Cryptography
● High-performance AES 128 to 256 with various modes
(GCM, CBC, ECB, CFB, CBC-MAC, CTR)
● TRNG (up to 38 Mbit/s stream, with tested Diehard and FIPS)
● Classical Public Key Crypto accelerator and associated ROM library
for RSA, ECC, DSA, ECDSA
● Integrity Check Module (ICM) based on Secure Hash Algorithm
(SHA1, SHA224, SHA256), DMA assisted
● Safety
● 4 Physical Anti-tamper Detection I/O with Time Stamping and Immediate Clear
of General Backup Registers
● Security bit for Device Protection from JTAG accesses
● Shared System Controller
● Power Supply
● Embedded Core and LCD Voltage Regulator for single supply operation
● Power-on-Reset (POR), Brownout Detector (BOD) and Watchdog for safe operation
● Low Power Sleep and Backup modes
● Clock
● 3 to 20 MHz Quartz or ceramic resonator oscillators with Clock Failure Detection
● Optional low-power 32.768 kHz crystal oscillator for RTC
● High precision 4/8/12 MHz factory trimmed internal RC oscillator
with on-the-fly trimming capability
● One High Frequency PLL up to 240 MHz, One 8 MHz PLL with internal 32 kHz input,
as source for High Frequency PLL
● Low power Slow Clock Internal RC oscillator as permanent clock (Continue ...)