The SAMA7D6 Series is a high-performance Arm® Cortex®-A7 CPU-based embedded microprocessor (MPU) targeting HMI and connectivity applications in the home/building, industrial, appliance, medical & automotive markets. The SAMA7D6 Series is delivered with a comprehensive development suite that includes a mainline Linux® distribution and the Microchip MPLAB® X/Harmony software framework. Running at up to 1 GHz, the device offers support for multiple memories, such as 16-bit DDR2, DDR3, DDR3L, LPDDR2, LPDDR3, octal/quad SPI Flash. It integrates various display interfaces, including MIPI DSI®, LVDS and 8-bit Serial RGB. The SAMA7D6 Series features connectivity options such as a dual 10/100/1000 Ethernet MAC with TSN support, five CAN-FD, three high-speed USB interfaces and embeds advanced security functions, such as PUF, secure boot, secure key storage and high-performance crypto accelerators for AES, SHA, RSA and ECC.
For more information about the SAMA7D6 Series MPU or the associated SIPs and SOM, please visit the respective product and github pages:
- SoC
- SiP
- SOM
- Getting Started Demo - Out of Box Experience
- This kit comes with an online Getting Started Demo allowing users to run a Linux or MPLAB Harmony v3 demo in less than 10 minutes. Try it here!
- Hardware
- Order the kit on Microchip Direct
- Find the kit details on the kit web page
- Curiosity board Design Files
- Curiosity Board User Guide
- This Curiosity board supports the following Display Modules
- 5.5" MIPI 720p LCD Display Module
- 5" WVGA LCD Display with LVDS interface and maXTouch
- Note: The MIPI Display is in portrait-only mode, and the LVDS Display in landscape-only mode
- Documentation
- Linux Software
- Linux Getting Started (with links to Linux sources and demo images)
- MPLAB Harmony v3 Software
- Find all code examples on MPLAB Harmony github or through MPLAB Discover
- Microchip Development Tools
- Third-Party Development Tools
