SAM D20 Xplained Pro Evaluation Kit

Overview

The SAM D20 Xplained Pro evaluation kit is ideal for evaluation and prototyping with the SAM D20 Cortex®-M0+ processor-based microcontrollers. The kit includes Atmel’s Embedded Debugger (EDBG), which provides a full debug interface without the need for additional hardware.

ATSAMD20-XPRO

Hardware

  • ATSAMD20J18 ARM Cortex-M0+ processor at 48 MHz
  • 32.768 kHz crystal oscillator
  • 256 KiB flash memory and 32 KiB of RAM
  • One yellow user LED
  • One mechanical user push button
  • One reset button
  • On-board USB based EDBG unit with serial console

Supported Features

The atsamd20_xpro board configuration supports the following hardware features:

Interface Controller Driver/Component
NVIC on-chip nested vector interrupt controller
Flash on-chip Can be used with NFFS to store files
SYSTICK on-chip systick
WDT on-chip Watchdog
GPIO on-chip I/O ports
USART on-chip Serial ports
SPI on-chip Serial Peripheral Interface ports

Other hardware features are not currently supported by Zephyr.

The default configuration can be found in the Kconfig boards/arm/atsamd20_xpro/atsamd20_xpro_defconfig.

Connections and IOs

The Microchip website [1] has detailed information about board connections. Download the SAM D20 Xplained Pro Schematic [2] for more detail.

System Clock

The SAMD20 MCU is configured to use the 32.768 kHz external oscillator with the on-chip PLL generating the 48 MHz system clock.

Serial Port

The SAMD20 MCU has 6 SERCOM based USARTs. One of the USARTs (SERCOM3) is connected to the onboard Atmel Embedded Debugger (EDBG). SERCOM4 is available on the EXT1 connector.

SPI Port

The SAMD20 MCU has 6 SERCOM based SPIs. On the SAM D20 Xplained Pro, SERCOM0 is available on the EXT1 connector.

Programming and Debugging

The SAM D20 Xplained Pro comes with a Atmel Embedded Debugger (EDBG). This provides a debug interface to the SAMD20 chip and is supported by OpenOCD.

Flashing

  1. Build the Zephyr kernel and the Hello World sample application:

    # On Linux/macOS
cd $ZEPHYR_BASE/samples/hello_world
mkdir build && cd build
# On Windows
cd %ZEPHYR_BASE%\samples\hello_world
mkdir build & cd build
cmake -GNinja -DBOARD=atsamd20_xpro ..
ninja

  2. Connect the SAM D20 Xplained Pro to your host computer using the USB debug port.

  3. Run your favorite terminal program to listen for output. Under Linux the terminal should be /dev/ttyACM0. For example:

    $ minicom -D /dev/ttyACM0 -o

    The -o option tells minicom not to send the modem initialization string. Connection should be configured as follows:

    • Speed: 115200
    • Data: 8 bits
    • Parity: None
    • Stop bits: 1

  4. To flash an image:

    # On Linux/macOS
cd $ZEPHYR_BASE/samples/hello_world
mkdir build && cd build
# On Windows
cd %ZEPHYR_BASE%\samples\hello_world
mkdir build & cd build
cmake -GNinja -DBOARD=atsamd20_xpro ..
ninja flash

    You should see “Hello World! arm” in your terminal.