【New Product】Embest Launched SAMA5D3 Xplained Evaluation Kit

[Embest Technology]

Feb. 25th, 2014, Embest Technology (a Premier Farnell company) launched SAMA5D3 Xplained evaluation kit.

SAMA5D3 Xplained is a low-cost fast prototyping and evaluation platform built on Atmel’s SAMA5D3 ARM Cortex-A5 microprocessor. It comes with external memory and a rich set of interfaces such as 256MB DDR2, 256MB flash, 2 Ethernet physical-layer transceivers, 2 SD/MMC interfaces, 2 USB Host and 1 USB Device, 1 24-bit RGB LCD and 1 debugging interfaces. Furthermore, SAMA5D3 Xplained has 8 headers that are compatible with Arduino R3 and could be used to connection different Arduino Shield. The evaluation kit is widely suited for many applications including industrial automation, networks, robotics, control panels and wearable devices.

SAMA5D3 Xplained Features:

• MPU – Atmel SAMA5D36Cortex-A5 Microprocessor @ 536 MHz
• System Memory – 2GBit DDR2 (Micron)
• Storage – 2GBit Flash (Micron), SD/MMCPlus 8-bit Card slot, 1x Micro SD Card 4-bit slot footprint (meaning not soldered)
• Connectivity – 1x Ethernet 10/100/1000M, 1x Ethernet 10/100M
• USB – 1x micro USB Device connector, 2x USB Host connectors
• Debugging – 1x 6-lead 3.3V-level serial port, 10-pin J-TAG connector
• Expansion – Arduino R3-compatible headers (8) and LCD connector
• Misc – 2x push buttons, reset and startup, 1x general purpose push button, 2x general purpose LEDs
• Power

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Active Semi PMIC

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Power measurement straps

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USB powered

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Supply input footprint (not soldered)