Batsocks - BreadMate Vanilla XMega PDI

DiscontinuedBreadMate Vanilla XMega PDI

A breadboard-friendly DIL format board for A4 XMegas

IncludedVanilla XMega PDI board

BreadboardEarlier version on a breadboard

An earlier revision of XMega PDI board in use on a prototyping breadboard.

TopsideVanilla topside

UndersideVanilla underside

Fuss-free XMega breadboarding

All I/O pins available
PDI Header onboard
Fits standard 0.1" breadboards
XMega32A4 pre-soldered
Decoupling capacitors pre-soldered
Allows simple prototyping
21mm x 46mm
Coin-cell clip included (CR1220)
With XMega32A4U: £10.50
Discontinued
With XMega128A4U: £12.00
Discontinued

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This is our simplest XMega board. It just plugs straight into a breadboard.

All the I/O pins of the XMegaA4 are brought out to clearly labelled pins. Port pins are kept together, so if you need all the pins on a port - they're next to each other.

This board has an XMega32A4, some decoupling caps, a reset pull-up resistor, a PDI header and a CR1220 coin cell holder.
It's very easy to use - just supply power through the bread-board pins, or from a coin-cell battery (not included).

Open-Source Hardware

The BreadMate Vanilla XMega PDI board is an Open-Source Hardware project released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License

Hardware design (schematics and board) are available below.

Documentation

Included

PCB with all surface-mounted components soldered on.
CR1220 coin-cell socket (soldered on)
2 x 18-way header pins (not soldered)
2x3 Header pins for PDI (not soldered)

You will need to supply the following:

A PDI capable programmer (AVRISPMk2, USBTiny mkii etc.)
Breadboard
Power (either from an external source [3.6v max] or from a CR1220 coin-cell)
Soldering equipment to attach the header pins

Getting started

Solder the header pins on. Plug into your breadboard. Supply power. Connect you programmer. Go!

We've got a page with some XMega examples, which might be useful.

Technical stuff

Pads for a standard HC49/US crystal and load caps (PTH) are onboard
Pads for a watch-crystal are onboard.
SJ1 (default: connected) connects Vcc to AVcc.

Remember that XMegas are lower voltage than their predecessors! 3.6v maximum Vcc.

Upgrade Notes:

We are now using the U variants of the XMegaA4s in the Vanilla boards. These are a more recent version of the silicon and are binary compatible with the non-U variants. For more information, see Atmel's Application Note AVR1021.

Version 2.0 of the board has swapped the location of the AVcc/Vcc and Gnd/Reset pins so they match our other A4 boards.

Release History

Board v2
Coin-cell release
added: CR1220 coin-cell holder
change:Rst/Gnd and AVcc/Vcc location swapped
change:PTH holes for HC49 crystal and caps
added:PTH holes for watch crystal

Board v1(a)
Open-source release

Purchasing

Part#	Description	price
BMP001X4	Vanilla BreadMate XMega PDI adapter (XMega32A4)	£10.50	Discontinued
BMP001XF	Vanilla BreadMate XMega PDI adapter (XMega128A4U)	£12.00	Discontinued

Files

circuit schematics

Version	Date	File	Size
2.0	2013-07-02	sch_bm_pdi_x4_20.pdf	66.8 kB
1.0a	2012-06-15	sch_bm_pdi_x4_10a.pdf	54.9 kB
1.0	2011-10-23	sch_bm_pdi_x4_10.pdf	37.9 kB

layout

Version	Date	File	Size
2.0	2013-07-02	board_bm_pdi_x4_20.pdf	72.5 kB
1.0a	2012-06-15	board_bm_pdi_x4_10a.pdf	74.1 kB

eagle files

Version	Date	File	Size
2.0	2013-07-02	bm_pdi_x4_20_eagle.zip	39.1 kB
1.0a	2012-06-15	bm_pdi_x4_10a_eagle.zip	28.4 kB