SAMA7D65 Curiosity Kit

Overview

The EV63J76A (SAMA7D65 Curiosity Kit) is a development kit for evaluating and prototyping with Microchip SAMA7D65 microprocessor (MPU). The SAMA7D65 MPU is a high-performance ARM Cortex-A7 CPU-based embedded MPU running up to 1GHz.

The board allows evaluation of powerful peripherals for connectivity, audio and user interface applications, including MIPI-DSI and LVDS w/ 2D graphics, dual Gigabit Ethernet w/ TSN and CAN-FD. The MPUs offer advanced security functions, like tamper detection, secure boot, secure key stoarge, TRNG, PUF as well as higher-performance crypto accelerators for AES and SHA.

The SAMA7D65 series is supported by Microchip MPLAB-X development tools, Harmony V3, Linux distributions and Microchip Graphic Suite (MGS) for Linux. The SAMA7D65 is well-suited for industrial and automotive applications with graphical displays support up to WXGA/720p.

Hardware

EV63J76A provides the following hardware components:

  • Processor

    • Microchip SAMA7D65-V/4HB (SoC 343-ball TFBGA, 14x14 mm, 0.65 mm pitch)

  • Memory

    • 8 Gb DDR3L (AS4C512M16D3LA-10BIN)

    • 64 Mb QSPI NOR Flash with EUI-48 (Microchip SST26VF064BEUI-104I/MF)

    • 4Gbit SLC NAND Flash (MX30LF4G28AD-XKI)

    • 2Kb EEPROM with EUI-48 (Microchip 24AA025E48)

  • SD/MMC

    • One SD card socket, 4 bit

    • One M.2 Radio Module interface, SDIO I/F

  • USB

    • One device USB Type-C connector

    • Two host USB Type-A connectors (Microchip MIC2026-1YM)

  • Ethernet

    • One 10/100/1000 RGMII on board

    • One 10/100/1000 RGMII SODIMM add-on slot (Microchip LAN8840-V/PSA)

  • Display

    • One MIPI-DSI 34-pin FPC connector

    • One LVDS 30-pin FPC connector

  • Debug port

    • One UART Debug connector

    • One JTAG interface

  • User interaction

    • One RGB (Red, Green, Blue) LED

    • Four push button switches

  • CAN-FD

    • Three onboard CAN-FD transceivers

    • Two interfaces available on mikroBUS slots

  • Expansion

    • Raspberry Pi 40-pin GPIO connector

    • Two mikroBUS™ connectors

    • Two PIOBU/System headers

  • Power management

    • Power Supply Unit (Microchip MCP16502TAB-E/S8B)

    • Power Monitoring (Microchip PAC1934)

    • Daughter cards power supply (Microchip MIC23450-AAAYML-TR)

    • Backup power supply (CR1220 battery holder)

  • Board supply

    • System 5 VDC from USB Type-C

    • System 5 VDC from DC Jack

Supported Features

The sama7d65_curiosity board supports the hardware features listed below.

on-chip / on-board
Feature integrated in the SoC / present on the board.
2 / 2
Number of instances that are enabled / disabled.
Click on the label to see the first instance of this feature in the board/SoC DTS files.
vnd,foo
Compatible string for the Devicetree binding matching the feature.
Click on the link to view the binding documentation.

sama7d65_curiosity/sama7d65 target

Type

Location

Description

Compatible

Clock control

on-chip

Microchip Power Management Controller (PMC)1

microchip,sam-pmc

on-chip

Microchip SAM Slow Clock Controller (SCKC)1

microchip,sama7g5-sckc

on-chip

Generic fixed-rate clock provider2

fixed-clock

I2C

on-chip

Atmel SAM Family I2C (TWI)11

atmel,sam-i2c-twi

Interrupt controller

on-chip

ARM Generic Interrupt Controller v21

arm,gic-v2

Multi-Function Device

on-chip

Microchip Flexcom (Flexible Serial Communication Unit)1 10

microchip,sam-flexcom

Pin control

on-chip

Microchip SAMA7G5 Pinctrl container node1

microchip,sama7g5-pinctrl

RTC

on-chip

Atmel SAM family RTC device1

atmel,sam-rtc

Serial controller

on-chip

Atmel SAM family USART1 10

atmel,sam-usart

SRAM

on-chip

Generic on-chip SRAM1

mmio-sram

Timer

on-chip

Microchip SAM 64-bit Periodic Interval Timer (PIT64B)1

microchip,sam-pit64b

Connections and IOs

The SAMA7D65-Curiosity Kit User Guide has detailed information about board connections.

References

SAMA7D65 Product Page:

https://www.microchip.com/en-us/product/sama7d65

SAMA7D65 Curiosity Kit Page:

https://www.microchip.com/en-us/development-tool/EV63J76A