OVERVIEW
With the new Arduino M0 pro board, the more creative individual will have the potential to create one’s most imaginative and new ideas for IoT devices, wearable technologies, high tech automation, wild robotics and other not yet thinkable adventures in the world of makers.
The Arduino M0 pro represents a simple, yet powerful, 32-bit extension of the Arduino UNO platform. The board is powered by Atmel’s SAMD21 MCU, featuring a 32-bit ARM Cortex® M0 core.
With the addition of the M0 board, the Arduino family becomes larger with a new member providing increased performance.
The power of its Atmel’s core gives this board an upgraded flexibility and boosts the scope of projects one can think of and make; moreover, it makes the M0 Pro the ideal educational tool for learning about 32-bit application development.
Atmel’s Embedded Debugger (EDBG), integrated in the board, provides a full debug interface with no need for additional hardware, making debugging much easier. EDBG additionally supports a virtual COM port for device programming and traditional Arduino boot loader functionality uses.
Summary
Microcontroller ATSAMD21G18, 48pins LQFP
Operating Voltage 3.3V
Digital I/O Pins 14, with 12 PWM and UART
Analog Input Pins 6, 12-bit ADC channels
Analog Output Pins 1, 10-bit DAC
DC Current per I/O Pin 7 mA
Flash Memory 256 KB
SRAM 32 KB
EEPROM up to 16KB by emulation
Clock Speed 48 MHz
Input and Output
Each of the 20 digital i/o pins on the M0 Pro can be used as an input or output, using pinMode(), digitalWrite(), and digitalRead() functions. They operate at 3.3 volts. 7mA as maximum DC current for I/O pins and an internal pull-up resistor (disconnected by default) of 20-50 kOhms. In addition, some pins have specialized functions:
There are a couple of other pins on the board:
AREF. Reference voltage for the analog inputs. Used with analogReference().
Reset. Bring this line LOW to reset the microcontroller. This is typically used to add a reset button when shields are used that block the one already present on the board.
Schematic & Reference Design
EAGLE files: arduino-M0-pro-reference-design.zip
Schematic: arduino-M0-pro-schematic.pdf