SparkFun Thing Plus – SAMD51

Is it power you seek? With a 32-bit ARM Cortex-M4F MCU, the SparkFun SAMD51 Thing Plus is one of our most powerful microcontroller boards yet! The SAMD51 Thing Plus provides you with an economical and easy to use development platform if you’re needing more power with minimal working space. This Thing even comes flashed with the same convenient UF2 bootloader as the RedBoard Turbo. To make the Thing Plus even easier to use, we’ve moved a few pins around to make the board Feather compatible and it utilizes our handy Qwiic Connect System which means no soldering or shields are required to connect it to the rest of your system!

The ATSAMD51J20 utilizes a 32-bit ARM Cortex-M4 processor with Floating Point Unit (FPU), running up to 120MHz, up to 1MB of flash memory, up to 256KB of SRAM with ECC, up to 6 SERCOM interfaces, and other features. In addition to the USB interface and Qwiic connection, a The SAMD51 Thing Plus provides a 600mA 3.3V regulator and LiPo charger.

The SparkFun Qwiic Connect System is an ecosystem of I²C sensors, actuators, shields and cables that make prototyping faster and less prone to error. All Qwiic-enabled boards use a common 1mm pitch, 4-pin JST connector. This reduces the amount of required PCB space, and polarized connections mean you can’t hook it up wrong.

SparkFun Thing Plus – DA16200 Features

• Atmel ATSAMD51J20 MCU
  • 21 Multifunctional GPIO Pins:
    • Up to six available 12-bit ADC channels
    • Up to twenty-one 24-bit PWM outputs
    • A single hardware UART
    • A single SPI Bus
    • A single I²C Bus
• Thing Plus (or Feather) Form-Factor:
  • Dimensions: 2.3″ x 0.9″
  • Four Mounting Holes:
    • 4-40 screw compatible
  • 28 PTH Pins
  • micro-B USBConnector
  • 2-pin JST Connector for a LiPo Battery (not included)
  • 4-pin JST Qwiic Connector
• LEDs:
  • CHG – Yellow battery charging indicator
  • STAT – Blue status/test LED (D13)
• Buttons:
  • Reset
• 4Mb QSPI Flash Memory
• SWD Pins and Test Points

ATSAMD51J20 General Features:

• 32-bit ARM Cortex-M4F MCU
  • Up to 120MHz CPU speed
  • 1MB flash memory
  • 256KB SRAM
  • Up to 6 SERCOM interfaces
• UF2 bootloader