Getting Started; Xplained Pro Quick Start; Design Documentation And Relevant Links - Atmel Xplained Pro SAM4L8 User Manual

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Getting Started

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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- and 64-bit versions of Microsoft
Windows
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 board(s) 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 SAM4L8
device is programmed and debugged by the on-board Embedded Debugger and therefore no external
programmer or debugger tool is needed.
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Design Documentation and Relevant Links

The following list contains links to the most relevant documents and software for the SAM4L8 Xplained
Pro.
• Xplained products
Atmel microcontrollers and other Atmel products. For low pin-count devices the Xplained Nano
series provides a minimalistic solution with access to all I/O pins of the target microcontroller.
Xplained Mini kits are for medium pin-count devices and adds Arduino Uno compatible header
footprint and a prototyping area. Xplained Pro kits are for medium to high pin-count devices, they
features advanced debugging and standardized extensions for peripheral functions. All these kits
have on board programmers/debuggers which creates a set of low-cost boards for evaluation and
demonstration of features and capabilities of different Atmel products.
• Atmel Studio
microcontrollers.
• Atmel sample store
• EDBG User Guide
Debugger.
• IAR Embedded Workbench
ARM
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.
• Atmel QTouch
• Atmel QTouch
applications.
• Atmel Data Visualizer
data. Data Visualizer can receive data from various sources such as the Embedded Debugger Data
Gateway Interface found on Xplained Pro boards and COM ports.
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Atmel Studio.
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XP, Windows Vista , Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, and Windows Server 2012.
- Atmel Xplained evaluation kits are a series of easy-to-use evaluation kits for
- Free Atmel IDE for development of C/C++ and assembler code for Atmel
- Atmel sample store where you can order samples of devices.
- User guide containing more information about the on-board Embedded
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. There is a 30 day evaluation version as well as a code size limited kick-start version
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Library PTC
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Composer
- Atmel Data Visualizer is a program used for processing and visualizing
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for ARM - This is a commercial C/C++ compiler that is available for
- QTouch Library for Atmel AVR
- Tool for developing capacitive buttons, sliders, and wheels
Atmel SAM4L8 Xplained Pro [USER GUIDE]
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and ARM -based microcontrollers.
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