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Prepare the SAM C21 Xplained Pro

Set Supply Voltage to 3.3 V

Make sure that the jumper on the 3-pin header labeled VCC_SEL is set to 3.3 V, as seen in Figure 1. This will select 3.3 V as the supply voltage for the ATSAMC21J18A, peripherals and extension headers, which is important as we will power the mote from the latter.

Warning

The supply voltage is by default set to 5.0 V, which will fry your mote instantly!

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Figure 1: Xplained Pro VCC selection header.

Connect to Mote

Figure 12: Mote connected to the SAM C21 Xplained Pro.

The Xplained Pro has three extension headers (EXT1, EXT2, EXT3) with pins as listed in Table 1. In Figure 2 you can see the mote connected to EXT1 with the mapping listed in Table 2, but it doesnt matter which one you use: The pins for UART RX/TX are all connected to the same pins on the SAM C21.

 

NamePin #Name
ID12GND
ADC+34ADC-
GPIO056

GPIO1

PWM+78PWM-
IRQ910SPI_SS_B
TWI_SDA1112TWI_SCL
UART_RX1314UART_TX
SPI_SS_A1516SPI_MOSI
SPI_MISO1718SPI_SCK
GND1920VCC

Table 1: Xplained Pro Standard Extention Header.


Xplained ProMote
VCCVBAT
GNDGND
UART_TXRX
UART_RXTX
GNDRX RTSn
GNDTX CTSn

Table 2: Xplained Pro to mote pin mapping.

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