Atmel AVR1923: XMEGA-A3BU Xplained
Hardware User Guide
Features
• Atmel® AVR® ATxmega256A3BU microcontroller
• FSTN LCD display with 128x32 pixels resolution
• Battery backup
• Analog sensors
- Ambient light sensor
- Temperature sensor
• Analog filter
• Digital I/O
- Three mechanical buttons
- Two user LEDs, one power LED and one status LED
- Four expansion headers
• Touch
- One Atmel AVR QTouch
• Memory
- Atmel AVR AT45DB642D DataFlash
• Footprints for external memory
- Atmel AVR AT25DF series industry standard serial flash
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button
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serial flash
8-bit Atmel
Microcontrollers
Application Note
1 Introduction
The Atmel AVR XMEGA-A3BU Xplained evaluation kit is a hardware platform to
evaluate the Atmel ATxmega256A3BU microcontroller.
The kit offers a large range of features that enables the Atmel AVR XMEGA
to get started using XMEGA peripherals right away and understand how to
integrate the XMEGA device in their own design.
Figure 1-1. XMEGA-A3BU Xplained evaluation kit.
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user
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2 Related items
The following list contains links to the most relevant documents, software and tools
for the Atmel AVR XMEGA-A3BU Xplained:
Atmel AVR Xplained products
Xplained
is a series of small-sized and easy-to-use evaluation kits for 8- and 32-bit
AVR microcontrollers. It consists of a series of low cost MCU boards for evaluation
and demonstration of feature and capabilities of different MCU families.
Atmel Xplained USB CDC driver
The Xpl
ained USB CDC driver file supports both 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows
XP and Windows 7. Driver installs are not necessary on Linux
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operating systems.
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XMEGA-A3BU Xplained schematics
Package cont
aining schematics, BOM, assembly drawings, 3D plots, layer plots…
AVR1923: XMEGA-A3BU Xplained Hardware Users Guide
This
document.
AVR1935: XMEGA-A3BU Xplained Getting Started Guide
This ap
plication note is a getting started guide for the XMEGA-A3BU Xplained.
AVR1934: XMEGA-A3BU Xplained Software User Guide
This ap
plication note is a user guide for the XMEGA-A3BU Xplained demo software.
AVR1916: XMEGA USB DFU Boot Loaders
This ap
Atmel AVR Studio
plication note is a user guide for the XMEGA USB DFU boot loaders.
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AVR Studio 5 is a free Atmel IDE for development of C/C++ and assembler code for
Atmel microcontrollers.
Atmel FLIP (Flexible In-system Programmer)
BatchISP (FLIP) is a com
mand line tool for programming the flash and EEPROM
memories of the AVR and is part of the FLIP installation. It can be used to
communicate with the preprogrammed USB DFU boot loader.
Atmel JTAGICE 3
JTAGICE 3
is a mid-range development tool for Atmel 8- and 32-bit AVR
microcontrollers with on-chip debugging for source level symbolic debugging,
NanoTrace (if supported by the device) and device programming.
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Atmel AVR JTAGICE mkII
AVR JTAGI
devices with on-chip debugging for source level symbolic debugging, NanoTrace (if
supported by the device), and device programming (superseded by JTAGICE 3).
Atmel AVR ONE!
AVR O
with on-chip debug capability. It is 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.
Atmel AVR Dragon™
AVR Drago
AVR devices with on-chip debug (OCD) capability.
Atmel AVR1923
CE mkII is a mid-range development tool for Atmel 8- and 32-bit AVR
NE! is a professional development tool for all Atmel 8- and 32-bit AVR devices
n sets a new standard for low cost development tools for 8- and 32-bit
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