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World-Class, Award-Winning SAM L10 and SAM L11 Microcontroller Family

Industry’s Lowest Power 32-bit MCUs, First to Offer Chip-Level Security and Arm® TrustZone® Technology

With the increasing growth of Internet of Things (IoT) end points and, consequently, the increased frequency of security breaches, designers are looking for MCUs that can help reduce power consumption while adding robust security. The SAM L10 and SAM L11 families of MCUs take an innovative approach to solving these challenges by integrating a wide variety of peripherals, including security features, into the industry's lowest-power MCUs in their class. This allows you to develop secured applications without the battery constraints of less power-efficient MCUs. These MCUs run at 32 MHz with memory configuration of up to 64 KB Flash and 16 KB SRAM. They come in three variant options, SAM L10, SAM L11 and SAM L11-KPH, and boast ultra-low power consumption as well as an enhanced Peripheral Touch Controller and advanced analog features. Both families of MCUs come in 24- and 32-pin package options and are targeted for use in IoT and security, low-power, capacitive touch and general-purpose embedded control applications.

The SAM L11 and SAM L11-KPH add integrated hardware security. The SAM L11-KPH adds a factory-provisioned root of trust key to provide the MCU with a secure identity that can be used for developing secure IoT applications. The SAM L11 and SAML11-KPH MCUs are supported by a comprehensive security ecosystem that includes Trustonic’s Kinibi-M™ solution and Secure Thingz’ Secure Deploy™ architecture.

SAM L11 MCUs are PSA Certified™ Level 1, which assures that the best embedded security practices have been implemented for IoT products.

Robust Security

SAM L11 MCUs integrate hardware-based security and Arm® TrustZone® technology to help protect devices from remote attacks. To reduce your development effort and speed your time to market, they are supported by a comprehensive security solution framework that delivers an end-to-end solution, from secure key provisioning, to cloud onboarding to complete lifecycle management. IoT nodes driven by a SAM L11 provide strong resistance to remote software attacks, which increase the nodes’ reliability and avoids downtime of their critical functions. The combination of security offered by Arm TrustZone for ARMv8-M and additional hardware-enforced security will help protect your devices from cloning and intellectual property theft. The SAML11-KPH also includes an immutable identity and Kinibi-M Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) for secure application development.

  • Secure boot
  • Chip-level tamper resistance on 256 Bytes of RAM
  • Arm TrustZone technology
  • True Random Number Generator (TRNG)
  • Crypto accelerators: Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA) and Galois/Counter Mode (GCM)
  • Key storage
  • Secure pin multiplexing
  • Secure debug
  • Active shield protection on TrustRAM to resist microprobing attacks

Industry’s Lowest Power

Create extremely power-efficient designs with the SAM L10 and SAM L11, the industry’s lowest power MCUs in their class with an EEMBC certified ULPMark™ of 410. They are built with picoPower® technology and provide flexible power saving modes. They are supported with power debugging and data visualizer tools to monitor and analyze power consumption in real time. This helps developers to rapidly optimize their system design for lower power consumption with significant improvements in battery life.

  • picoPower® technology
  • Under 25 uA/MHz active 
  • Under 100 nA Sleep
  • Fast wake up times: 1.5 μS
  • SleepWalking peripherals
  • Dual performance levels
  • Power domain gating
  • Event System
  • Power debugger and data visualizer tool support

Superior Capacitive Touch

Incorporate capacitive touch interfaces in your applications with these MCUs which feature an enhanced Peripheral Touch Controller (PTC), offering best-in-class water tolerance and high noise immunity. It is four times faster than the previous generation of PTC and provides highly-responsive and accurate touch sensing. It is supported by the QTouch Configurator and QTouch® Modular Library which make it simple to add elegant touch interfaces to your applications.

  • Enhanced peripheral touch controller
  • Driven Shield Plus 
  • Parallel acquisition
  • Buttons, wheels, sliders and surfaces
  • Highly responsive and accurate
  • Ultra-low power
  • Wake-up on touch
  • IEC/EN 61000 4-6, 10V rms

Comparison of SAM L10, SAM L11 and SAM L11-KPH MCUs

Key provisioning solutions are available for the SAM L11 and SAM L11-KPH series of devices.

Robust Chip-Level Security and Arm TrustZone Technology

IoT nodes driven by a SAM L11 MCU provide strong resistance to remote software attacks and tampering, which increases the nodes’ reliability and avoids downtime of their critical functions.

Robust Chip-Level Security

SAM L11 MCUs were created with deeply embedded security during their silicon design phase. Robust security features include chip-level tamper resistance, active shield and scrambling on 256 bytes of TrustRAM, Boot ROM designed to facilitate secure boot, NIST-compliant TRNG, FIPS-compliant AES, scrambling on data Flash, and Arm TrustZone technology to enable hardware secure partition to facilitate IP protection, code isolation and protection from remote attacks. The active shield on 256 bytes of TrustRAM protects against physical attacks and resists microprobing attacks.   

Arm TrustZone Technology

The SAM L11 incorporates Arm TrustZone technology to protect against remote software attacks. It divides the MCU into trusted and non-trusted zones and provides hardware isolation to protect keys and sensitive information from non-trusted zones.

Kinibi-M: Secure Application Development Software Framework by Trustonic

SAM L11 MCUs are supported by Kinibi-M, a comprehensive security solution framework that offers an end-to-end solution, from secure key provisioning to cloud onboarding to complete device lifecycle management. It is aimed at making your applications more secure while significantly reducing your development effort and speeding your time to market.

Kinibi-M is a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) that is designed to integrate all the SAM L11’s security features and provide a modular and easy-to-use secure application development environment. It covers most requirements, including supply chain protection, automatic cloud enrollment, device attestation and provenance and software isolation and IP protection.

Ready to Get Started with the SAM L11 and Kinibi-M?

Jump-start your secure application development with the SAML11 Xplained Pro Evaluation Kit (DM320205) and Kinibi-M. You can also download the Trustonic IoT Developer Kit, which includes a free developer SDK pack, software, demos and documentation to help you get started with building your first secure IoT solution.

External Provisioning/Programming Solutions with Secure Deploy

The SAM L11 family is fully integrated with Secure Thingz’ Secure Deploy architecture, which can be used to provision SAM L11 MCUs at secure external programming centers.  The Secure Deploy architecture has been designed to enhance and simplify security implementations and enable the protection of critical Intellectual Property (IP) throughout your product’s creation, manufacture and management. It features:

  • Simple management of critical IP within the development process
  • Secure key management targeted for development, manufacturing and applications
  • Elimination of over-production and counterfeiting through constrained device programming

For more information about Secure Deploy and additional resources to help you get started  with programming and provisioning the SAM L11 MCU, Please visit the Microchip SAM L11 page on the Secure Thingz website.

Learn More About External Provisioning on the SAM L11
Go to SAM L11 Page on Secure Thingz Website

Security Threats and SAM L11’s Counter-Measures

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SAM L11 Security Use Cases

picoPower® Technology and Low-Power Techniques

Devices with picoPower technology, such as the SAM L10 and SAM L11 MCUs, are designed for the lowest possible power consumption from transistor design and process geometry, sleep modes, flexible clocking options, on-the-fly user selectable performance levels, event system to SleepWalking peripherals. This technology provides flexible power-saving techniques that enable the creation of designs with longer battery lives and lower total system costs.

Power-Saving Techniques Benefits
SleepWalking Ability of the peripherals to perform a task without waking up the Central Processing Unit (CPU) from the sleep mode to maintain low power for an extended period
Power Domain Gating Unused power domain can be switched off to reduce the sleep currents even further
Dual Performance Levels (PL0 and PL2) Ability to change the CPU speed on the fly to suit the application activity level. Helps strike a balance between power and performance when in active mode.
Event System Inter-peripheral communication which reduces CPU overhead and saves CPU cycles
Integrated, Low-Power Analog
(Op Amps, ADC, AC, DAC)		 Reduces BOM
Can take inputs from sensors when in sleep

Capacitive Touch: Superior Water Tolerance, Noise Immunity and Responsiveness

Add superior capacitive touch interfaces to your application with the SAM L10/11 family. These MCUs offer an enhanced Peripheral Touch Controller (PTC) with Driven Shield Plus and Parallel Acquisition allowing you to differentiate your designs with exceptional touch-based capabilities.

Driven Shield Plus

Driven Shield Plus offers best in class water tolerance and noise immunity. It enables touch for products in dew, sweat, rain and even running water. It can also be designed in to products that are IP-68 rated. It supports touch surfaces with pinch and zoom capabilities in the presence of water.

Parallel Acquisition

Parallel acquisition improves the responsiveness of the touch interface by acquiring multiple touch sensors simultaneously as opposed to the traditional way of acquiring them sequentially. This makes the PTC on SAM L10/11, four times faster than the previous generation of PTCs. It also filters out noise and significantly improves responsiveness of high button count touch interfaces.

The PTC on SAM L10/11 MCUs offers superior noise mitigation techniques and easily passed IEC/EN 61000-4-6 10V rms industry standard conducted immunity noise tests.

Rich Development Ecosystem

IDE Microchip Studio 
IAR Embedded Workbench
Arm® Keil® MDK
SEGGER Embedded Studio
Software Framework Atmel START
Atmel START TrustZone Manager
Security Framework Trustonic End-to-End Solution Support
Secure Thingz Key Provisioning
SEGGER emCrypt crypto-library
Low Power Power Debugger
Data Visualizer
Touch QTouch® Configurator
QTouch Modular Library
2D Touch Surface Library

Target Applications

IoT and Security Low Power  Capacitive Touch
  • Smart cities
  • Home automation
  • Industrial automation
  • Smart agriculture
  • Medical devices
  • Accessories authentication
  • Wearables
  • Gaming controls
  • Energy harvesting
  • Smart pens
  • Low power industrial
  • Sensor nodes
  • Appliances
  • Fitness trackers
  • Automotive door handles
  • Steering wheel controls
  • Key pads
  • Remote controls

Get Started

The SAM L10 and SAM L11 Xplained Pro Evaluation Kits are available to kick-start development. These are fully supported with security, low-power and touch demos to accelerate development and get to market faster!

All SAM L10/L11 MCUs are supported by Microchip Studio Integrated Development Environment (IDE), IAR Embedded Workbench, Arm Keil® MDK as well as Atmel START, a free online tool to configure peripherals and software that accelerates development. START also supports Arm TrustZone technology to configure and deploy secure applications. A power debugger and data analyzer tool is available to monitor and analyze power consumption in real-time and fine tune the consumption numbers on the fly to meet application needs. Microchip’s QTouch® Modular Library, 2D Touch Surface Library and QTouch Configurator are also available to simplify touch development.

SAM L10 and SAM L11 Microcontrollers

View All Parametrics
Product Status Automotive Recommended 5K Pricing Functional Safety Ready CPU Type Architecture Max CPU Speed (MHz) Program Memory Size (KB) SRAM (KB) DRAM Interface Data EEPROM/HEF (Bytes) Auxiliary Flash (KB) SDIO/SD-CARD/eMMC Temperature Range Operation Voltage Range Graphics Controller/GPU Direct Memory Access Channels ADC Input Max ADC Resolution (Bits) Number of DACs USB Interface Number of USB Modules Number of Comparators Timers Capture/Compare/PWM Peripherals Motor Control PWM Outputs UART/SPI/I2C Number of Op Amps I2S Peripheral Pin Select / Pin Muxing Vbat/Vddbu battery backup Low Power External Memory Bus Interface QSPI Quadrature Encoder Interface Crypto Engine Hardware Touch Peripheral Number of CAN Modules Type of CAN module Ethernet Pin count Packages
ATSAML10D14A In Production Yes $1.20 No Cortex-M23 32 32 16 4 No 2048 0 0 -40 to 125 1.62V - 3.63V No 8 5 12 1 None 0 1 3 x 16-bit 1 x 32-bit 6 -Std. PWM 0-bit PWM resolutions 6 -Input Capture 0 2 -UART 2 -SPI 2 -I2C 3 0 Yes No Yes No 0 0 No PTC 0 None None 24 24/SSOP, 24/VQFN
ATSAML10E14A In Production Yes $1.23 No Cortex-M23 32 32 16 4 No 2048 0 0 -40 to 125 1.62V - 3.63V No 8 10 12 1 None 0 2 3 x 16-bit 2 x 32-bit 6 -Std. PWM 0-bit PWM resolutions 6 -Input Capture 0 3 -UART 3 -SPI 2 -I2C 3 0 Yes No Yes No 0 0 No PTC 0 None None 32 32/TQFP, 32/VQFN, 32/WLCSP
ATSAML10D15A In Production Yes $1.25 No Cortex-M23 32 32 32 8 No 2048 0 0 -40 to 125 1.62V - 3.63V No 8 5 12 1 None 0 1 3 x 16-bit 1 x 32-bit 6 -Std. PWM 0-bit PWM resolutions 6 -Input Capture 0 2 -UART 2 -SPI 2 -I2C 3 0 Yes No Yes No 0 0 No PTC 0 None None 24 24/SSOP, 24/VQFN
ATSAML10E15A In Production Yes $1.28 No Cortex-M23 32 32 32 8 No 2048 0 0 -40 to 125 1.62V - 3.63V No 8 10 12 1 None 0 2 3 x 16-bit 1 x 32-bit 6 -Std. PWM 0-bit PWM resolutions 6 -Input Capture 0 3 -UART 3 -SPI 2 -I2C 3 0 Yes No Yes No 0 0 No PTC 0 None None 32 32/TQFP, 32/VQFN, 32/WLCSP
ATSAML11D14A In Production Yes $1.34 No Cortex-M23 32 32 16 8 No 2048 0 0 -40 to 125 1.62V - 3.63V No 8 5 12 1 None 0 1 3 x 16-bit 2 x 32-bit 6 -Std. PWM 0-bit PWM resolutions 6 -Input Capture 0 2 -UART 2 -SPI 2 -I2C 3 0 Yes No Yes No 0 0 Yes PTC 0 None None 24 24/SSOP, 24/VQFN
ATSAML11D15A In Production Yes $1.40 No Cortex-M23 32 32 32 8 No 2048 0 0 -40 to 125 1.62V - 3.63V No 8 5 12 1 None 0 1 3 x 16-bit 1 x 32-bit 6 -Std. PWM 0-bit PWM resolutions 6 -Input Capture 0 2 -UART 2 -SPI 2 -I2C 3 0 Yes No Yes No 0 0 Yes PTC 0 None None 24 24/SSOP, 24/VQFN
ATSAML11E14A In Production Yes $1.38 No Cortex-M23 32 32 16 8 No 2048 0 0 -40 to 125 1.62V - 3.63V No 8 10 12 1 None 0 2 3 x 16-bit 2 x 32-bit 6 -Std. PWM 0-bit PWM resolutions 6 -Input Capture 0 3 -UART 3 -SPI 2 -I2C 3 0 Yes No Yes No 0 0 Yes PTC 0 None None 32 32/TQFP, 32/VQFN, 32/WLCSP
ATSAML11E15A In Production Yes $1.43 No Cortex-M23 32 32 32 8 No 2048 0 0 -40 to 125 1.62V - 3.63V No 8 10 12 1 None 0 2 3 x 16-bit 1 x 32-bit 6 -Std. PWM 0-bit PWM resolutions 6 -Input Capture 0 3 -UART 3 -SPI 2 -I2C 3 0 Yes No Yes No 0 0 Yes PTC 0 None None 32 32/TQFP, 32/VQFN, 32/WLCSP
ATSAML10D16A In Production Yes $1.38 No Cortex-M23 32 32 64 16 No 2048 0 0 -40 to 125 1.62V - 3.63V No 8 5 12 1 None 0 1 3 x 16-bit 2 x 32-bit 6 -Std. PWM 0-bit PWM resolutions 6 -Input Capture 0 2 -UART 2 -SPI 2 -I2C 3 0 Yes No Yes No 0 0 No PTC 0 None None 24 24/SSOP, 24/VQFN
ATSAML10E16A In Production Yes $1.40 No Cortex-M23 32 32 64 16 No 2048 0 0 -40 to 125 1.62V - 3.63V No 8 10 12 1 None 0 2 3 x 16-bit 2 x 32-bit 6 -Std. PWM 0-bit PWM resolutions 6 -Input Capture 0 3 -UART 3 -SPI 2 -I2C 3 0 Yes No Yes No 0 0 No PTC 0 None None 32 32/TQFP, 32/VQFN, 32/WLCSP
ATSAML11D16A In Production Yes $1.52 No Cortex-M23 32 32 64 16 No 2048 0 0 -40 to 125 1.62V - 3.63V No 8 5 12 1 None 0 1 3 x 16-bit 2 x 32-bit 6 -Std. PWM 0-bit PWM resolutions 6 -Input Capture 0 2 -UART 2 -SPI 2 -I2C 3 0 Yes No Yes No 0 0 Yes PTC 0 None None 24 24/SSOP, 24/VQFN
ATSAML11E16A In Production Yes $1.54 No Cortex-M23 32 32 64 16 No 2048 0 0 -40 to 125 1.62V - 3.63V No 8 10 12 1 None 0 2 3 x 16-bit 2 x 32-bit 6 -Std. PWM 0-bit PWM resolutions 6 -Input Capture 0 3 -UART 3 -SPI 2 -I2C 3 0 Yes No Yes No 0 0 Yes PTC 0 None None 32 32/TQFP, 32/VQFN, 32/WLCSP

Development Tools

SAM L10 Xplained Pro Evaluation Kit

Part Number: DM320204

The SAM L10 Xplained Pro Evaluation Kit is ideal for evaluating and prototyping with ultra-low-power SAM L10 Arm® Cortex®-M23 based microcontrollers (MCUs). The SAM L10 MCU features general-purpose embedded control capabilities with enhanced Peripheral Touch Controller and advanced analog.

SAM L11 Xplained Pro Evaluation Kit

Part Number: DM320205

The SAM L11 Xplained Pro Evaluation Kit is ideal for evaluating and prototyping with ultra-low-power SAM L11 Arm Cortex-M23 based microcontrollers. These devices integrate robust security which includes Arm TrustZone® technology, secure boot, crypto acceleration, secure key storage and chip-level tamper detection. The SAM L11 MCU also features general-purpose embedded control capabilities with enhanced Peripheral Touch Controller and advanced analog.

Power Debugger

Part Number: ATPOWERDEBUGGER

Power Debugger is a powerful development tool for debugging and programming AVR® microcontrollers using UPDI, JTAG, PDI, debugWIRE, aWire, TPI or SPI target interfaces and Arm Cortex-M based SAM microcontrollers using JTAG or SWD target interfaces.

QT7 Xplained Pro Extension Kit

Part Number: ATQT7-XPRO

The QT7 Xplained Pro Extension Kit is an extension board to evaluate robust, water-tolerant self-capacitance touch. The kit includes one board with self-capacitance slider and two self-capacitance buttons. It also has eight LEDs to enable button state and slider position feedback.

I/O1 Xplained Pro Extension Kit

Part Number: ATIO1-XPRO

The I/O1 Xplained Pro Extension Kit provides a light sensor, temperature sensor and microSD card. It connects to the extension headers of any Xplained Pro Evaluation Kit.

Demo Examples

Demo Name Demo Code Location
Trusted Execution Environment www.microchip.com/START
Cloud Enrollment with Kinibi-M

www.trustonic.com/Kinibi-M
Ultra-Low-Power Secure LoRa® IoT Node App Note – AN2835
Low-Power Weather Station www.microchip.com/START
Low-Power SleepWalking

www.microchip.com/START
Water-Tolerant Touch with QT7 Xplained Pro Extension Board

www.microchip.com/START
Low-Power Keypad Touch with QT3 Xplained Pro Extension Board www.microchip.com/START

Documentation

Title Download
AN_42412 - AT04296: Low Power Features of SAM L Series Devices Download
AN2945 - SAM L10/L11 Family Configurable Custom Logic (CCL) Peripheral Implementation Download
AN2698 - Secure UART Bootloader for SAM L11 Application Note Download
AN5365 - SAM L11 Security Reference Guide Application Note Download
AN2722 - Getting Started With SAM L10 / L11 Xplained Pro Application Note Download
AN2699 - UART Bootloader SAM L10 and L11 Download
AN2794 - OPAMP as ADC Gain Amplifier for SAM L10 MCUs Application Notes Download
AN2775 - CPU Usage Demonstration Using DMAC for SAM L10 MCUs Application Note Download
AN2812 - Low-Power Touch Design Download
QTouch® Modular Library Peripheral Touch Controller User's Guide Download
Title Download
SAM L10/11 Sell Sheet Download
Title Download
SAM L10/L11 Family Data Sheet Download

SAM L10/L11

Title Download
SAM L10_L11 Family Silicon Errata and Data Sheet Clarification Download
Title Download
Basic 32-Bit MCU Design and Troubleshooting Checklist Download
Title Download
Ultra Low-Power Techniques Tech Brief Download

Kinibi-M™

Advanced Security with Microchip Brochure

Supply Chain Protection with Digital Holograms™ Brochure

Automatic Cloud Enrollment for Google Cloud and AWS Brochure

Secure Deploy™ Training

Application Notes

Getting Started with Embedded Trust and the Microchip SAM L11

Secure Programming

Using the Secret Wrapping Tool (SWT) with the Microchip SAM L11

Where Can I Get My SAM L11 Securely Programmed?

Security Training Videos

Embedded Trust Demo for the SAM L11

How to Use the Secret Wrapping Tool

SAM L11 Trusted Execution Environment Demo

An overview of SAML11 Trusted Execution to implement secure temperature sensor while counteracting malware and physical attacks.

 

SAM L10/L11 Driven Shield Plus

SAM L10/L11 Driven Shield Plus

A quick overview of SAM L10/L11’s Enhanced Peripheral Touch Controller (PTC) implementing Driven Shield Plus feature to showcase water tolerant touch.

SAM L11 Security Features

SAM L11 Security Features

A quick overview of SAML11 security features, use cases, comprehensive security solution framework and demos to make implementation of security simple.

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