Atmel's ATXMEGA64A1

I just got these beauties from Mouser today:

Atxmega64A1

This is one of the first of the ATXMega line of chips, and _boy_ what a beautiful chip:

* 8 USARTS.
* 4 i2c busses
* 4 SPI busses
* AES and DES Cryptoengines
* 2 eight-channel, 12-bit ADCs
* 2 two-channel, 12-bit DACs,
* a built in 32kHz factory calibrated oscillator for the Real-time Clock
* built in 2MHz and 32MHz factory calibrated oscillators
* A 31x PLL which can be used as the system clock (for a top chip speed of 200MHz).

All for $6.40 a chip, quantity 10.

Now I need to make a board for it.

I might try doing a seeedstudio run.

Comments

Great Find

I would be very interested in a seeedstudio, that could be a very powerful board with quite a bit of IO.


Remind me to bring you an

Remind me to bring you an adaptor board.


That's a very pretty design.

That's a very pretty design. I've been using KiCad, and the 45/90 traces look totally clunky by comparison. I used to make nice curved layouts using Eagle, but my current projects exceed the free-version size limits, and I haven't scraped up the $700 for a full license yet. Perhaps KiCad will have curves by the time I have the dough, and I can spend it on something else!