Datasheet

11011AS–ATARM–04-Oct-10

SAM3N Summary

11. Embedded Peripherals Overview

11.1 Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI)

• Supports communication with serial external devices

– Four chip selects with external decoder support allow communication with up to 15

peripherals

– Serial memories, such as DataFlash and 3-wire EEPROMs

– Serial peripherals, such as ADCs, DACs, LCD Controllers, CAN Controllers and

Sensors

– External co-processors

• Master or slave serial peripheral bus interface

– 8- to 16-bit programmable data length per chip select

– Programmable phase and polarity per chip select

– Programmable transfer delays between consecutive transfers and between clock

and data per chip select

– Programmable delay between consecutive transfers

– Selectable mode fault detection

• Very fast transfers supported

– Transfers with baud rates up to MCK

– The chip select line may be left active to speed up transfers on the same device

11.2 Two Wire Interface (TWI)

• Master, Multi-Master and Slave Mode Operation

• Compatibility with Atmel two-wire interface, serial memory and I

C compatible devices

• One, two or three bytes for slave address

• Sequential read/write operations

• Bit Rate: Up to 400 kbit/s

• General Call Supported in Slave Mode

• Connecting to PDC channel capabilities optimizes data transfers in Master Mode only (for

TWI0 only)

– One channel for the receiver, one channel for the transmitter

– Next buffer support

11.3 Universal Asynchronous Receiver Transceiver (UART)

•Two-pin UART

– Implemented features are 100% compatible with the standard Atmel USART

– Independent receiver and transmitter with a common programmable Baud Rate

Generator

– Even, Odd, Mark or Space Parity Generation

– Parity, Framing and Overrun Error Detection

– Automatic Echo, Local Loopback and Remote Loopback Channel Modes