Atmel samples first Cortex-M4 based range
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Atmel has announced it is sampling the first device in the ARM Cortex-M4 processor based range, as well as unveiling its fifth generation Cortex-M4 based Flash mcus.
According to Atmel, throughout 2012, the SAM3 and SAM4 families will quadruple its Cortex-M portfolio to nearly 200 ARM based microcontrollers, including devices with on chip memory densities of up to 2MB Flash, 192KB of sram.
The SAM4S16 device is said to operate at a maximum speed of 120MHz with 1024KB Flash and 128KB sram, with a full peripheral set featuring full speed USB, high speed SDIO/SD/MMC, UARTs, TWIs, SPI, I2S, 12bit a/d converter and d/a converter and an external bus interface supporting psram, lcd modules, NOR Flash, and NAND Flash. Atmel claims the device offers the world's best hardware code protection and supports Atmel QTouch technology for touch button, slider and wheel functionality targeting industrial markets.
"As one of the early ARM licensees, we are excited that Atmel continues to expand their product offering with the Cortex-M4, the latest processor in the Cortex-M family, to target the high performance microcontroller and DSC markets," said Lance Howarth, executive vice president of marketing, ARM. "Using the new SAM4 microcontroller products, designers will benefit from the solid product family roadmap that offers scalability for optimized price and performance across consumer, computing and industrial applications."
