| .. _sam_e70_xplained: |
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| SAM E70 Xplained |
| ################ |
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| Overview |
| ******** |
| |
| The SAM E70 Xplained evaluation kit is a development platform to evaluate the |
| Atmel SAM E70 series microcontrollers. |
| |
| Hardware |
| ******** |
| |
| - ATSAME70Q21 ARM Cortex-M7 Processor |
| - 12 MHz crystal oscillator |
| - 32.768 kHz crystal oscillator (not populated) |
| - AT24MAC402 EEPROM |
| - IS42S16100E 16 Mb SDRAM |
| - SD card connector |
| - Ethernet port |
| - Micro-AB USB device |
| - Micro-AB USB debug interface supporting CMSIS-DAP, Virtual COM Port and Data |
| Gateway Interface (DGI) |
| - JTAG interface connector |
| - One reset and one user pushbutton |
| - One green user LED |
| |
| Supported Features |
| ================== |
| |
| The sam_e70_xplained board configuration supports the following hardware |
| features: |
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| +-----------+------------+-------------------------------------+ |
| | Interface | Controller | Driver/Component | |
| +===========+============+=====================================+ |
| | NVIC | on-chip | nested vector interrupt controller | |
| +-----------+------------+-------------------------------------+ |
| | SYSTICK | on-chip | systick | |
| +-----------+------------+-------------------------------------+ |
| | USART | on-chip | serial port | |
| +-----------+------------+-------------------------------------+ |
| | ETHERNET | on-chip | ethernet | |
| +-----------+------------+-------------------------------------+ |
| | WATCHDOG | on-chip | watchdog | |
| +-----------+------------+-------------------------------------+ |
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| Other hardware features are not currently supported by Zephyr. |
| |
| The default configuration can be found in the Kconfig |
| :file:`boards/arm/sam_e70_xplained/sam_e70_xplained_defconfig`. |
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| Connections and IOs |
| =================== |
| |
| The `SAME70-XPLD User Guide`_ has detailed information about board connections. |
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| System Clock |
| ============ |
| |
| The SAM E70 MCU is configured to use the 12 MHz external oscillator on the board |
| with the on-chip PLL to generate a 300 MHz system clock. |
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| Serial Port |
| =========== |
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| The ATSAME70Q21 MCU has five UARTs and three USARTs. One of the USARTs is |
| configured for the console and is available as a Virtual COM Port via EDBG USB |
| chip. |
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| Programming and Debugging |
| ************************* |
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| Flashing |
| ======== |
| |
| Flashing the Zephyr project onto SAM E70 MCU requires the `OpenOCD tool`_. |
| Support for Atmel SAM E microcontroller series was added in OpenOCD release |
| 0.10.0. The current OpenOCD version available in the Zephyr SDK is 0.9 and |
| unfortunately it does not support Atmel SAM E microcontrollers. Since few, if |
| any major Linux distributions currently offer OpenOCD version 0.10.0 as a |
| package you will have to compile and install it yourself. Make sure to enable |
| CMSIS-DAP support as this is the debugging interface used by the on board EDBG |
| chip. |
| |
| By default SAM E70 chip will boot SAM-BA bootloader located in the ROM, not the |
| flashed image. This can be changed with SAM Boot Assistant (`SAM-BA`_) In-system |
| Programmer from Atmel by reprogramming GPNVM1 (General-purpose NVM bit 1). |
| This operation needs to be performed only once. If you do not need to debug |
| your firmware you can also use SAM-BA instead of OpenOCD to flash your project. |
| |
| #. Build the Zephyr kernel and the application: |
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| .. code-block:: console |
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| $ cd $ZEPHYR_BASE/samples/hello_world/ |
| $ make BOARD=sam_e70_xplained |
| |
| #. Connect the SAM E70 Xplained board to your host computer using the USB debug |
| port. |
| |
| #. Run your favorite terminal program to listen for output. Under Linux the |
| terminal should be :code:`/dev/ttyACM0`. For example: |
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| .. code-block:: console |
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| $ 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 |
| |
| #. To flash the image, assuming the OpenOCD tool is already installed, enter: |
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| .. code-block:: console |
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| $ openocd -f board/atmel_same70_xplained.cfg -c "program outdir/sam_e70_xplained/zephyr.elf verify reset exit" |
| |
| The command will also verify that the image was programmed correctly, reset |
| the board and run the Zephyr application. |
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| You should see "Hello World!" in your terminal. |
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| Debugging |
| ========= |
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| #. Connect the SAM E70 Xplained board to your host computer using the USB debug |
| port. |
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| #. Start GDB server on your host computer |
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| .. code-block:: console |
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| $ openocd -f board/atmel_same70_xplained.cfg& |
| |
| #. You can now use GDB remote debugging to connect to the target board. By |
| default GDB server will listen on port 3333. |
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| References |
| ********** |
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| SAM E70 Product Page: |
| http://www.atmel.com/products/microcontrollers/arm/sam-e.aspx |
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| .. _SAME70-XPLD User Guide: |
| http://www.atmel.com/Images/Atmel-44050-Cortex-M7-Microcontroller-SAM-E70-XPLD-Xplained_User-guide.pdf |
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| .. _OpenOCD tool: |
| http://openocd.org/ |
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| .. _SAM-BA: |
| http://www.atmel.com/tools/ATMELSAM-BAIN-SYSTEMPROGRAMMER.aspx |