Atmel device families offer a variety of microcontrollers that meet a wide range of performance requirements.

ARM Cortex-M Device Families

• SAM4L Series
  The SAM4L (Cortex-M4) series offers lowest power consumption and fastest wake-up. The devices feature an LCD controller, capacitive touch module and USB host.
  
  
• SAM4E Series
  The SAM4E (Cortex-M4F) series offers a rich set of advanced connectivity peripherals including 10/100Mbps Ethernet MAC supporting IEEE 1588 and dual CAN.
  
  
• SAM4S Series
  

  The SAM4S series (Cortex-M4) offers high performance and a rich set of peripherals with up to 2MB of Flash and 160K of SRAM.

  Download the "Atmel SAM4S Lab"

• SAM3U Series
  The ARM Cortex^™-M3 processor-based SAM3U series feature high-speed 480 Mbps USB interfaces, 96MHz operation, and up to 256K Flash.
  
  
• SAM3S Series
  

  The SAM3S (Cortex-M3) series integrates features to simplify PCB design and reduce power consumption down to 2.3 mW at 1 MHz operation.

  Download the "Atmel SAM3S Lab"

• SAM3A Series
  The SAM3A (Cortex-M3) features connectivity peripherals including a dual CAN interface and high-speed USB (HS USB) MiniHost and device with on-chip physical layer (PHY)
  
  
• SAM3X Series
  

  The SAM3X (Cortex-M3) brings more connectivity to the SAM3 family by adding Ethernet, dual CAN and high-speed USB (HS USB) MiniHost and device with on-chip physical layer (PHY).

  Download the "Atmel SAM3X Lab"

• SAM3N Series
  The SAM3N series (Cortex-M3) offers high performance, wide peripheral support including a QTouch capacitive touch interface, and lower power consumption.
  
  

Various labs give an easy introduction to software development for the Atmel SAM devices with Keil MDK-ARM. Click one of the buttons above to download the lab material.

ARM7/ARM9 Device Families 

• SAM9 Series
  Atmel's ARM9^™ processor-based high-performance MPUs are an ideal solution for mains powered, cost-sensitive industrial applications and building control.
• SAM7 Series
  The original ARM7TDMI^™ processor-based general purpose devices from Atmel.

ARM Cortex-A Device Families

• SAMA5D3 Series
  Based on the ARM® Cortex™-A5 processor, the Atmel® SAMA5D3 series of embedded microprocessor units (eMPUs) operates at up to 536MHz (850DMIPS) at under 200mW, delivering a high-performance, low-power platform for cost-sensitive industrial and consumer applications.

The SAMA5D3 Series is supported by the ARM Development Studio 5. More information on www.arm.com/ds5

8051 Device Families

Atmel offers a broad range of microcontrollers based on the 8051 architecture ranging in code density from 2K bytes to 128K bytes.

All 8051-based devices are fully supported by Keil C51 Development Tools.