Date: 28/12/2009

High integrated Cortex-M3-based Flash MCUs from Atmel

The SAM3S is a member of Atmel's Flash microcontroller family based on the high-performance 32-bit ARM Cortex-M3 RISC processor, which includes 18 general-purpose Cortex-M3 based Flash microcontrollers that improve impedance matching, simplify PCB design and save 50 percent power at 1 MHz operation with a consumption of only 2.3 mW. The SAM3S series is suitable for the applications such as consumer, industrial control, metering, toys, medical, test and measurement, 802.15.4 wireless networking, PC, cell phone and gaming peripherals.

The key features of the SAM3S series are,

Consumes 1.45 mW / MHz at maximum operating frequency of 64 MHz.
Provides system control and sensor interfaces
64k to 256 kByte flash memory options
Optional external parallel bus interface
Connectivity capabilities and user interface support
Includes On-Die Termination (ODT), USB Device, SDIO, Parallel PIO signal capture, 12-bit ADC and DAC, 4 UARTs, dual I2C, I2S, timers, unique chip ID, and power and reset management
Operating input voltage ranges from 1.62 to 3.6V

Package: 48-pin QFP and QFN up to 100-pin QFP and BGA package
Price: Ranges from $2.50 to $4.45 in 10k pieces
Availability: Now in samples, production volumes will be available in Q2 2010

For more details visit www.atmel.com