New MCUs combine industry’s best-in-class low power consumption and water-tolerant, noise-immune capacitive touch
25 June, New Delhi, 2018 [NASDAQ: MCHP] — With the booming growth of Internet of Things (IoT) endpoints, security is sometimes an afterthought for many designers, increasing the risk of exposing intellectual property (IP) and sensitive information. To address the growing need for security, the new SAM L10 and SAM L11 MCU families are now available from Microchip Technology Inc. For more information visit www.microchip.com/SAML11.
The new MCU families are based on the Arm® Cortex®-M23 core, with the SAM L11 featuring Arm TrustZone® for Armv8-M, a programmable environment that provides hardware isolation between certified libraries, IP and application code. Microchip enables robust security by including chip-level tamper resistance, secure boot and secure key storage that, when combined with TrustZone technology, protects customer applications from both remote and physical attacks.
“IoT endpoints often require low power and high security,” said Rod Drake, vice president of Microchip’s MCU32 business unit. “However, the growth of IoT nodes is happening so fast that security is not always addressed. The features of the SAM L11 are exactly what customers need to plan for security early in the design cycle.”
Development Support
The SAM L10 and SAM L11 Xplained Pro Evaluation Kits are available to kick-start development. All SAM L10/L11 MCUs are supported by the Atmel Studio 7 Integrated Development Environment (IDE), IAR Embedded Workbench, Arm Keil® MDK as well as Atmel START, a free online tool to configure peripherals and software that accelerates development. START also supports TrustZone technology to configure and deploy secure applications. A power debugger and data analyser tool is available to monitor and analyse power consumption in real-time and fine tune the consumption numbers on the fly to meet application needs. Microchip’s QTouch® Modular Library, 2D Touch Surface Library and QTouch Configurator are also available to simplify touch development.
Availability
SAM L10 and SAM L11 devices are available today in a variety of pin counts and package options in volume production quantities.
- Devices in the SAM L10 series are available in 10,000-unit quantities.
- Devices in the SAM L11 series are available in 10,000-unit quantities.
- The SAM L10 and SAM L11 Xplained Pro Evaluation Kits are available (DM320204 and DM320205 respectively).
For additional information, contact any Microchip sales representative or authorised worldwide distributor, or visit Microchip’s website. To purchase products mentioned in this press release, go to Microchip’s full-service channel microchipDIRECT or contact one of Microchip’s authorised distribution partners.
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