The first product in a family of Cortex-M4 devices from Atmel Corporation is now available. With this, the company plans to quadruple its Cortex-M product portfolio to nearly 200 devices over 2012. This will include solutions with on-chip memory densities of up to 2MB Flash, 192KB of SRAM and extensive peripherals including high-speed USB.
Several devices in the new family will also include a floating point unit (FPU) expanding the company’s ARM-based device offering into the Digital Signal Controller (DSC) market.
The SAM4S16 device operates at a maximum speed of 120MHz with 1024KB Flash and 128KB SRAM with a full peripheral set featuring full-speed USB, high-speed SDIO/SD/MMC, UARTs, TWIs, SPI, I2S, 12-bit ADC and DAC and an external bus interface supporting PSRAM, LCD modules, NOR Flash, and NAND Flash. The device offers advanced hardware code protection and supports Atmel QTouch technology for touch button, slider and wheel functionality, targeting the industrial markets.
