The is a microcontroller board based on the Atmel SAM3X8E ARM Cortex-M3 CPU. It has 54 digital input / output pins (of which 12 can be used as PWM outputs), 12 analog inputs, 4 UARTs (hardware serial ports), a 84 MHz clock, an USB OTG capable connection, 2 DAC (digital to analog), 2 TWI, a power jack, an SPI header, a JTAG header, a reset button and an erase button.

 

The board contains everything needed to support the microcontroller; simply connect it to a computer with a micro-USB cable or power it with a AC-to-DC adapter or battery to get started. The is compatible with all Arduino shields that work at 3.3V and are compliant with the 1.0 Arduino pinout.

 

The SAM3X has 512KB (2 blocks of 256KB) of flash memory for storing code. The bootloader is preburned in factory from Atmel and is stored in a dedicated ROM memory. The available SRAM is 96KB in two contiguous bank of 64KB and 32KB. All the available memory (Flash, RAM and ROM) can be accessed directly as a flat addressing space.

 

It is possible to erase the Flash memory of the SAM3X with the onboard erase button. This will remove the currently loaded sketch from the MCU. To erase, press and hold the Erase button for a few seconds while the board is powered.

Features

• A 32-bit core, that allows operations on 4 bytes wide data within a single CPU clock.
• CPU clock at 84Mhz
• 96KBytes of SRAM
• 512KBytes of flash memory for code
• A DMA controller, that can relieve the CPU from doing memory intensive tasks.

 

Specifications

• Microcontroller: AT91SAM3X8E
• Operating voltage: 3.3V
• Input voltage(recommended): 7V - 12V
• Input Voltage (limits): 6-16V
• Digital I / O pins: 54(of which 12 provide PWM output)
• Analog input pins: 12
• Analog outputs pins: 2(DAC)
• Total DC output current on all I / O lines: 130mA
• DC current for 3.3V pin: 800mA
• Flash memory: 512KB all available for the user applications
• SRAM: 96KB(two banks: 64KB and 32KB)
• Clock speed: 84MHz