Features
• High-performance, Low-power AVR 8/16-bit XMEGA Microcontroller
• Non-volatile Program and Data Memories
– 64K - 256K Bytes of In-System Self-Programmable Flash
– 4K - 8K Boot Code Section with Independent Lock Bits
– 2K - 4K Bytes EEPROM
– 4K - 16K Bytes Internal SRAM
External Bus Interface for up to 16M bytes SRAM
External Bus Interface for up to 128M Bytes SDRAM
• Peripheral Features
– Four-channel DMA Controller with support for external requests
– Eight-channel Event System
– Seven 16-bit Timer/Counters
Four Timer/Counters with 4 Output Compare or Input Capture channels
Three Timer/Counters with 2 Output Compare or Input Capture channels
High Resolution Extensions on all Timer/Counters
Advanced Waveform Extension on one Timer/Counter
– Seven USARTs
IrDA Extension on 1 USART
– AES and DES Crypto Engine
– Two Two-wire Interfaces with dual address match(I
2
C and SMBus compatible)
– Three SPI (Serial Peripheral Interfaces)
– 16-bit Real Time Counter with Separate Oscillator
– Two Eight-channel, 12-bit, 2 Msps Analog to Digital Converters
– One Two-channel, 12-bit, 1 Msps Digital to Analog Converter
– Four Analog Comparators with Window compare function
– External Interrupts on all General Purpose I/O pins
– Programmable Watchdog Timer with Separate On-chip Ultra Low Power Oscillator
• 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 MLF
• Operating Voltage
– 1.6 – 3.6V
• Speed performance
– 0 – 12 MHz @ 1.6 – 3.6V
– 0 – 32 MHz @ 2.7 – 3.6V
Typical Applications
• Industrial control • Climate control • Hand-held battery applications
• Factory automation • ZigBee • Power tools
• Building control • Motor control • HVAC
• Board control • Networking • Metering
• White Goods • Optical • Medical Applications
8/16-bit
XMEGA A3
Microcontroller
ATxmega256A3
ATxmega192A3
ATxmega128A3
ATxmega64A3
Preliminary
8068C–AVR–06/08