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Using Another Microcontroller

Started by Sam, Aug 09 2010 05:02 PM

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#1 Sam

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Posted 09 August 2010 - 05:02 PM

Hi Because of some limitation in my country I cant find AT91SAM7X512. Can I use AT91SAM7X256 instead?

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#2 José Ángel

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Posted 09 August 2010 - 05:23 PM

The AT91SAM7X512, AT91SAM7X256 and AT91SAM7X128 differ only in memory sizes. Device - Flash - Flash Organization - SRAM AT91SAM7X512 - 512 Kbytes - dual plane - 128 Kbytes AT91SAM7X256 - 256 Kbytes - single plane - 64 Kbytes AT91SAM7X128 - 128 Kbytes - single plane - 32 Kbytes More info: http://www.atmel.com...ments/6120s.pdf

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#3 Chris Walker

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Posted 09 August 2010 - 05:27 PM

Because of some limitation in my country I cant find AT91SAM7X512. Can I use AT91SAM7X256 instead?

Hi Sam, thanks for the post!

We use the AT91SAM7X512 because it offers much more Flash and RAM than the AT91SAM7X256. You won't be able to use the Netduino firmware on the AT91SAM7X256 without significant modifications (and even then, you'd have little room left for your C# code).

Chris