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Atmel AT02667: XMEGA-E5 Xplained Hardware User’s
Guide
Atmel AVR XMEGA E
Features
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Atmel® AVR® ATxmega32E5 microcontroller
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OLED display with 128×32 pixels resolution
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Ambient light sensor
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Analog filter
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Rotary Encoder with push button
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Digital I/O
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Two mechanical buttons
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Two user LEDs
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Four expansion headers
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Board controller with USB interface
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One power LED and one status LED
Description
The Atmel AVR XMEGA-E5 Xplained evaluation kit is a hardware platform to
evaluate the Atmel ATxmega32E5 microcontroller.
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The kit offers a larger range of features that enables the Atmel AVR XMEGA
get started using XMEGA peripherals right away and understand how to integrate the
XMEGA device in their own design.
Figure 1. XMEGA-E5 Xplained evaluation kit.
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Table of Contents
1. Related Items ....................................................................................... 3
2. General Information ............................................................................. 4
2.1Preprogrammed firmware ................................................................................. 4
2.2Power supply..................................................................................................... 4
2.3Measuring the Atmel AVR XMEGA power consumption ................................... 5
2.4Communication through the USART-to-USB gateway ...................................... 5
2.5Programming the kit .......................................................................................... 5
3. Connectors ........................................................................................... 6
3.1Programming headers ....................................................................................... 6
3.2I/O expansion headers ...................................................................................... 6
4. Peripherals ........................................................................................... 9
4.1Mechanical buttons ........................................................................................... 9
4.2LEDs …… .......................................................................................................... 9
4.3Quadrature encoder .......................................................................................... 9
4.4OLED display .................................................................................................... 9
4.5Analog I/O ....................................................................................................... 10
4.5.1Ambient light sensor ......................................................................... 10
4.6Board controller ............................................................................................... 11
5. Code Exa
6. Revision History
6.1Revision history of the document .................................................................... 13
6.2Revision history of the kit ................................................................................ 13
mples .................................................................................. 12
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Related Items
The following list contains links to the most relevant documents, software and tools for the Atmel AVR XMEGA-E5
Xplained:
Atmel AVR Xplained products
Xplained is a
a series of low cost MCU boards for evaluation and demonstration of feature and capabilities of different MCU families.
series of small-sized and easy-to-use evaluation kits for 8- and 32-bit AVR microcontrollers. It consists of
Atmel Xplained USB CDC driver
The Xplained
are not necessary on Linux
XMEGA-E5 Xplained schematics
Package cont
AT02667: XMEGA-E5 Xplained Hardware Users Guide
This document.
AT02657: XMEGA-E5 Xplained Software User Guide
This applicatio
Atmel Studio 6
Atmel Stud
Atmel JTAGICE3
JTAGIC
source level symbolic debugging, NanoTrace (if supported by the device) and device programming.
Atmel AVR JTAGICE mkII
AVR JTAGIC
source level symbolic debugging, NanoTrace (if supported by the device), and device programming (superseded by
JTAGICE3).
Atmel AVR ONE!
AVR ON
used for source level symbolic debugging, program trace, and device programming. The AVR ONE! supports the
complete development cycle and is the fastest debugging tool offered from Atmel.
USB CDC driver file supports both 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows
aining schematics, BOM, assembly drawings, 3D plots, layer plots…
n note is a user guide for the XMEGA-E5 Xplained demo software.
io 6 is a free Atmel IDE for development of C/C++ and assembler code for Atmel microcontrollers.
E3 is a mid-range development tool for Atmel 8- and 32-bit AVR microcontrollers with on-chip debugging for
E mkII is a mid-range development tool for Atmel 8- and 32-bit AVR devices with on-chip debugging for
E! is a professional development tool for all Atmel 8- and 32-bit AVR devices with on-chip debug capability. It is
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operating systems.
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XP and Windows 7. Driver installs
Atmel AVR Dragon
AVR Dragon
(OCD) capability.
IAR Embedded Workbench
IAR™ Embedded Workbench is a commercial C/C++ compiler that is available for 8-bit AVR. There is a 30 day
evaluation version as well as a 4k (code size limited) kick-start version available from their website.
™ sets a new standard for low cost development tools for 8- and 32-bit AVR devices with on-chip debug
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