SamD11 what else?

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Hello a friend of mine gave me bunch of samD11 chips. I know they are used as programming chip. But i was wondering what else can i do with them? I know they have 15kb of programming memory, But can i use them for something else, Program them for something else?

I have tried to look up the pinout for this chip sense it is only a 14 pin chip. However everything i came across shows the pinout how to connect to another atmel chip. So what else can i do with this chip?

Joseph

P.s.s I don't need another programmer. I just want to other use to this chip, Even if it is just to blink a led or maybe i can use it if it has i2c on it. I do not know.

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Hello i forgot to add one last thing this is the chip i do have here. I have 25 of them. I thought i only have a few but i have 25 of them.

Joseph

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You can use it as a standalone Arduino. You are somewhat constrained with resources compared to the SAMD21, but this chip is still capable of doing some amazing things.

There is a boards platform to add Arduino support for the ATSAMD11 to the Arduino IDE, etc. here:

In addition to the programmer for the Nano Every board, Arduino also uses the ATSAMD11 as the controller for the MKR Motor Carrier. Arduino uses a slightly modified version of the mattairtech SAMD boards platform for these products, so they are actually running Arduino sketches.

It seems like a very interesting chip for the Arduino community because it has excellent software support and is available in an easy to solder package. I actually think it's kind of fun to work with the microcontrollers that aren't so resource rich because it can be conducive to creativity to have constraints.

I have a MKR Motor Shield that had an unfortunate magic smoke moment, but I don't think it affected the ATSAMD11 and I've been meaning to play around with it.

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Hello pert thank you very much for the information. Do you by any chance know what the pinout might be? If what are digitial pins or analog pins? Do you by any chance know if there is any pwm or i2c or spi? I'm sorry i just limited on what i can find or what is out there on that.

Joseph

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Hello aarg thank you very much. Trying to look at the datasheet now. I have a love hate thing with datasheets LOL.

Joseph

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You can find the pinout with Arduino pin mapping, as well as some nice documentation, for the mattairtech boards platform here:

And some more general documentation in the project's global readme:

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thank you so much pert. And everyone else this helps me a lot.

Joseph

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The information you're looking for is in mainly in the "block diagram" and "pinout" sections of the datasheet pdf. Sometimes the reader doesn't enable the index tab by default, but if you do, the chapters are visible and clickable.

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aarg yeah i have a hard time with datasheets. it is something I'm learning and dealing with.

Joseph

Edit: that I have a hard time with manuals and data sheets. Not that I can not read it’s just something is off with me when I try to read them.