Description
The XMEGA A3 is a family of low power, high performance and peripheral rich CMOS 8-bit microcontrollers based on the AVR enhanced RISC architecture. By executing powerful instructions in a single clock cycle, the XMEGA A3 achieves throughputs approaching 1 Million Instructions Per Second (MIPS) per MHz allowing the system designer to optimize power consumption versus processing speed. The AVR CPU combines a rich instruction set with 32 general purpose working registers. All the 32 registers are directly connected to the Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU), allowing two independent registers to be accessed in one single instruction, executed in one clock cycle. The resulting architecture is more code efficient while achieving throughputs many times faster than conventional single-accumulator or CISC based microcontrollers The XMEGA A3 devices have five software selectable power saving modes. The Idle mode stops the CPU while allowing the SRAM, DMA Controller, Event System, Interrupt Controller and all peripherals to continue functioning. The Power-down mode saves the SRAM and register contents but stops the oscillators, disabling all other functions until the next TWI or pin-change interrupt, or Reset. In Power-save mode, the asynchronous Real Time Counter continues to run, allowing the application to maintain a timer base while the rest of the device is sleeping. In Standby mode, the Crystal/Resonator Oscillator is kept running while the rest of the device is sleeping. This allows very fast start-up from external crystal combined with low power consumption. In Extended Standby mode, both the main Oscillator and the Asynchronous Timer continue to run. To further reduce power consumption, the peripheral clock for each individual peripheral can optionally be stopped in Active mode and Idle sleep mode.
- High-performance, Low-power 8-bit AVR® XMEGATM Microcontroller
- Non-volatile Program and Data Memories
- 128 KB of In-System Self-Programmable Flash
- 8 KB Boot Code Section with Independent Lock Bits
- 2 KB EEPROM
- 8KB Internal SRAM
- Special Microcontroller Features
- Power-on Reset and Programmable Brown-out Detection
- Internal and External Clock Options with PLL
- Programmable Multi-level Interrupt Controller
- Sleep Modes: Idle, Power-down, Standby, Power-save, Extended Standby
- Advanced Programming, Test and Debugging Interfaces JTAG (IEEE 1149.1 Compliant) Interface for test, debug and programming PDI (Program and Debug Interface) for programming, test and debugging
- I/O and Packages
- 50 Programmable I/O Lines
- 64-lead TQFP
- 64-pad QFN
- Operating Voltage
- 1.6 – 3.6V
- Speed performance
- 0 – 12 MHz @ 1.6 – 3.6V
- 0 – 32 MHz @ 2.7 – 3.6V
