Win a chance to evaluate ARM® Cortex M4 processor SAM4S from Atmel!
The Atmel SAM-4S Xplained (ATSAM4S-XPLD) evaluation kit is a hardware platform to evaluate the Atmel SAM4S16 microcontroller.
The kit offers a large range of features that enables the Atmel ARM® SAM4S16 user to get started using SAM4S peripherals right away and understand how to integrate the SAM4S device in their own design.
Kit Contents
The Atmel® SAM-4S Xplained toolkit contains the following items
One SAM-4S Xplained Board inside its antistatic bag.
One USB cable (USB A type to MicroB type).
A Welcome Letter.
You can download sample code and get technical support from Atmel website:
SAM4S-Scalable Performance and Memory Density, Power Efficiency
Based on the powerful ARM® Cortex™-M4 processor, the Atmel® SAM4S series extends the Atmel Cortex-M portfolio to offer:
Increased performance and power efficiency
Higher memory densities: up to 2MB of Flash and 160KB of SRAM
And a rich peripheral set for connectivity, system control and analog interfacing.
Devices are pin-to-pin and software compatible with current SAM3 Cortex-M3 processor-based microcontrollers (MCUs), offering a smooth upwards migration path for performance and memory size.
Testers will be selected on the basis of quality of applications: we expect a full and complete description of why you want to test this particular product.
Testers are required to produce a full, comprehensive and well thought out review within 2 months of receipt of the product.
Failure to provide this review within the above timescale will result in the enrolee being excluded from future Road Tests.
Well I hope you get yours, it was a fun kit to evaluate. In the meantime, I have been having quite a bit of fun with the ST Discovery kits. Very low priced and a great way to exercise your ARM muscles.
The amount of people who genuinely want to learn by doing (what I've basically been doing all my life) some of the really interesting things that the RoadTest products are capable of that never get the chance because of these people is disgustingly high it seems...
I really hope the staff members here take some action against these people.
What I find really strange about this situation is that I'm the only person out of the estimated 19 people who haven't written a review/received their eval board.
Why haven't any of the other people commented or submitted their reviews if they did in fact receive their eval boards?
Are there actually people who spend the time to sign up for RoadTests (which are incredibly hard to be chosen for, I've been trying to get one for almost two years now ) only to "steal" the products?
How do we get to view a list of all the Test Reports for this Road Test?
The 'Road Testers' panel seems to list everyone who applied - over 7 pages - so it's real pain to have to trawl through all of that to find the actual reviews...
