New MCUs and development kits for IoT and touch-control applications

RS Components has availability of the SAM L10 and SAM L11 family of 32-bit MCUs from Microchip, along with supporting development kits that allow users to experience the high performance levels and integrated hardware-based security produced by these new Arm Cortex-powered MCUs. This latest family of the company's MCUs are aimed at a broad spectrum of potential applications including the IoT and security-in-home automation or smart agriculture, and ultra-low-power applications such as energy harvesting and other low-power industrial use. The devices are also suitable for capacitive touch control applications such as remote controls, automotive door handles or industrial keypads. The low-power SAM L10 and SAM L11 family includes what is claimed to be the industry’s first Arm Cortex-M23-based MCUs in a small footprint, providing enhanced performance and smaller code size compared to Arm Cortex M0+-based devices. The family has reached an EEMBC ULPMark certified benchmark score of 405, which is more than 200% higher than the nearest competitor devices. Both the devices are configured with a 32MHz Cortex-M23 microprocessor core with up to 64K Flash memory and up to 16K SRAM. Key peripherals for both devices also include enhanced PTC; 12-bit ADC; 10-bit DAC; op amps; and Sercom serial interfaces. Package options include TQFP, QFN, WLCSP and SSOP, and temperature options include –40C to +85C and –40C to +125C. To allow engineers to get up and running quickly and evaluate the possibilities of the MCUs, RS offers the Microchip Xplained Pro development kits, based respectively around the SAM L10 and SAM L11.