In the next month or so, I will be roadtesting the Microchip SAML10/L11 Xplained Pro Evaluation Kits. I want to take this opportunity to give you a bit of information on them as well as some source information.
Let's start with the SAML10. Here's a few facts: The SAM L10 Xplained Pro evaluation kit is ideal for evaluating and prototyping with the ultra low power SAML10 ARM
Cortex-M23 based microcontrollers. The SAM L10 MCU features general purpose embedded control capabilities with enhanced peripheral touch controller and advanced analog. It comes (interestingly enough) with some demos:
- water tolerant touch
- keypad touch
- low power weather station
- SleepWalking (Yes, that is correct, sleepwalking)
For more information on the SAML10, go here.
The SAML11 is a variant, and appears to offer more in the way of security features. Here's the facts: The SAML11 Xplained Pro evaluation kit is ideal for evaluating and prototyping with the ultra low power SAML11 ARM Cortex-M23 based microcontrollers integrating robust security which includes ARM TrustZone, secure boot, crypto acceleration, secure key storage and chip-level tamper detection. In addition to security the SAM L11 MCU features general purpose embedded control capabilities with enhanced peripheral touch controller and advanced analog. It also has its own unique demos:
- trusted execution environment
- secure LoRa IoT node
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) enrollment using Trustonic Kinibi-M
- water tolerant touch
- keypad touch demos
As expected, both versions come with some common features, such as:
- Xplained Pro extension headers
- mikroBUS socket
- X32 header
- Embedded debugger
- XAM with Data Visualizer support for real-time power measurement
- ATECC508A Crypto Authentication IC
- USB powered
For more information on the SAML11, go here.
I'd encourage you to take a local at what these boards have to offer. If you have the time, please live a comment or what you might like to build with it.
