
APPLICATION NOTE
Atmel AVR1925: XMEGA-C3 Xplained Hardware User’s
Guide
Atmel XMEGA C
Features
• Atmel
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AVR® ATxmega384C3 microcontroller
• OLED display with 128×32 pixels resolution
• Analog sensors
• Ambient light sensor
• Temperature sensor
• Analog filter
• Digital I/O
• Two mechanical buttons
• Two user LEDs, one power LED and one status LED
• Four expansion headers
• Touch
• Two Atmel AVR QTouch
®
button
• Memory
• microSD Card
Description
The Atmel AVR XMEGA-C3 Xplained evaluation kit is a hardware platform to
evaluate the Atmel ATxmega384C3 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.
user to
Figure 1. XMEGA-C3 Xplained evaluation kit.
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Table of Contents
1. Related items ....................................................................................... 3
2. General information ............................................................................. 4
2.1 Preprogrammed firmware ................................................................................. 4
2.2 Power supply..................................................................................................... 4
2.3 Measuring the Atmel AVR XMEGA power consumption ................................... 4
2.4 Programming the kit .......................................................................................... 5
3. Connectors ........................................................................................... 6
3.1 Programming headers ....................................................................................... 6
3.2 I/O expansion headers ...................................................................................... 6
4. Peripherals ........................................................................................... 8
4.1 microSD card .................................................................................................... 8
4.2 Atmel AVR QTouch button ................................................................................ 8
4.3 Mechanical buttons ........................................................................................... 8
4.4 LEDs …. ............................................................................................................ 8
4.5 OLED display .................................................................................................... 9
4.6 Analog I/O ......................................................................................................... 9
4.6.1 Temperature sensor............................................................................ 9
4.6.2 Ambient light sensor ......................................................................... 12
5. Code examples
6. Revision history
6.1 Revision history of the document .................................................................... 14
6.2 Revision history of the kit ................................................................................ 14
6.2.1 Revision 2 ......................................................................................... 14
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1. Related items
The following list contains links to the most relevant documents, software and tools for the Atmel AVR XMEGA-C3
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
USB CDC driver file supports both 32- and 64-bit versions of Windows
are not necessary on Linux
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operating systems.
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XP and Windows 7. Driver installs
XMEGA-C3 Xplained schematics
Package cont
aining schematics, BOM, assembly drawings, 3D plots, layer plots…
AVR1925: XMEGA-C3 Xplained Hardware Users Guide
This document.
AVR1939: XMEGA-C3 Xplained Getting Started Guide
This applicatio
n note is a getting started guide for the XMEGA-C3 Xplained.
AVR1940: XMEGA-C3 Xplained Software User Guide
This applicatio
n note is a user guide for the XMEGA-C3 Xplained demo software.
AVR1916: XMEGA USB DFU Boot Loaders
This applicatio
n note is a user guide for the XMEGA USB DFU boot loaders.
Atmel Studio 6
Atmel Stud
io 6 is a free Atmel IDE for development of C/C++ and assembler code for Atmel microcontrollers.
Atmel FLIP (Flexible In-system Programmer)
BatchISP (FLI
P) is a command 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 JTAGICE3
JTAGICE3 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.
Atmel AVR JTAGICE mkII
AVR JTAGICE mkII is a mid-range development tool for Atmel 8- and 32-bit AVR d
evices with on-chip debugging for
source level symbolic debugging, NanoTrace (if supported by the device), and device programming (superseded by
JTAGICE3).
Atmel AVR ONE!
AVR ON
E! is a professional development tool for all Atmel 8- and 32-bit AVR devices 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 Dragon
™ sets a new standard for low cost development tools for 8- and 32-bit AVR devices with on-chip debug
(OCD) capability.
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IAR Embedded Workbench
for Atmel AVR
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.
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