Getting Started; Xplained Pro Quick Start; Design Documentation And Relevant Links - Microchip Technology SAMC21N Xplained Pro Manual

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Getting Started

2.1

Xplained Pro Quick Start

Steps to start exploring the Atmel Xplained Pro platform:
1. Download
2. Launch Atmel Studio.
3. Connect a USB cable (Standard-A to Micro-B or Micro-AB) between the PC and the DEBUG USB
port on the kit.
When the Xplained Pro MCU kit is connected to your computer for the first time, the operating system will
perform a driver software installation. The driver file supports both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Microsoft
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Windows XP, Windows Vista
Once the Xplained Pro MCU board is powered the green power LED will be lit and Atmel Studio will auto
detect which Xplained Pro MCU and extension boards are connected. Atmel Studio will present relevant
information like datasheets and kit documentation. The kit landing page in Atmel Studio also has the
option to launch Atmel Software Framework (ASF) example applications for the kit. The SAMC21N device
is programmed and debugged by the on-board Embedded Debugger and therefore no external
programmer or debugger tool is needed.
2.2

Design Documentation and Relevant Links

The following list contains links to the most relevant documents and software for SAMC21N Xplained Pro:
• Xplained products
Microchip microcontrollers and other Microchip products.
– Xplained Nano: used for low pin-count devices and provides a minimalistic solution with
access to all I/O pins of the target microcontroller.
– Xplained Mini: used for medium pin-count devices and adds Arduino Uno compatible header
footprint and a prototyping area.
– Xplained Pro: used for medium to high pin-count devices that features advanced debugging
and standardized extensions for peripheral functions.
Note: All the above kits have on-board programmers/debuggers, which creates a set of low-cost
boards for evaluation and demonstration of features and capabilities of different Microchip products.
• Atmel Studio
• Microchip sample store
• EDBG User Guide
Debugger.
• IAR Embedded Workbench
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ARM . There is a 30 day evaluation version as well as a code size limited kick-start version
available from their website. The code size limit is 16KB for devices with M0, M0+, and M1 cores
and 32KB for devices with other cores.
• Data Visualizer
Visualizer can receive data from various sources such as the Embedded Debugger Data Gateway
Interface found on Xplained Pro boards and COM Ports.
• Hardware Users Guide in PDF format
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2017 Microchip Technology Inc.
Atmel Studio.
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, Windows 7, and Windows 8.
- Xplained evaluation kits are a series of easy-to-use evaluation kits for
- Free IDE for the development of C/C++ and assembler code for microcontrollers.
- Microchip sample store where you can order samples of devices.
- User guide containing more information about the on-board Embedded
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for ARM
- Data Visualizer is a program used for processing and visualizing data. The Data
SAMC21N Xplained Pro
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- This is a commercial C/C++ compiler that is available for
- PDF version of this User Guide.
User Guide
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