Trinket M0

Overview

The Adafruit Trinket M0 is a tiny (27 mm x 15 mm) ARM development board with an onboard RGB LED, USB port, and range of I/O broken out onto 5 pins.

Hardware

  • ATSAMD21E18A ARM Cortex-M0+ processor at 48 MHz

  • 256 KiB flash memory and 32 KiB of RAM

  • Internal trimmed 8 MHz oscillator

  • A user LED

  • An RGB DotStar LED

  • Native USB port

  • One reset button

Supported Features

The adafruit_trinket_m0 board configuration supports the following hardware features:

Interface

Controller

Driver/Component

NVIC

on-chip

nested vector interrupt controller

Flash

on-chip

Can be used with LittleFS to store files

SYSTICK

on-chip

systick

WDT

on-chip

Watchdog

GPIO

on-chip

I/O ports

PWM

on-chip

Pulse Width Modulation

USART

on-chip

Serial ports

SPI

on-chip

Serial Peripheral Interface ports

USB

on-chip

USB device

Other hardware features are not currently supported by Zephyr.

The default configuration can be found in the Kconfig file boards/adafruit/trinket_m0/adafruit_trinket_m0_defconfig.

Connections and IOs

The Adafruit Trinket M0 Learn site [1] has detailed information about the board including pinouts [2] and the schematic [3].

System Clock

The SAMD21 MCU is configured to use the 8 MHz internal oscillator with the on-chip PLL generating the 48 MHz system clock. The internal APB and GCLK unit are set up in the same way as the upstream Arduino libraries.

Serial Port

The SAMD21 MCU has 6 SERCOM based USARTs. On the Trinket, SERCOM0 is the Zephyr console and is available on pins 3 (RX) and 4 (TX). SERCOM2 is available on pins 2 (RX) and 0 (TX).

PWM

The SAMD21 MCU has 3 TCC based PWM units with up to 4 outputs each and a period of 24 bits or 16 bits. If CONFIG_PWM_SAM0_TCC is enabled then LED0 is driven by TCC0 instead of by GPIO.

SPI Port

The SAMD21 MCU has 6 SERCOM based SPIs. On the Trinket, SERCOM1 is used to drive the DotStar RGB LED. SERCOM0 can be put into SPI mode and used to connect to devices over pin 2 (MISO), pin 4 (MOSI), and pin 3 (SCK).

USB Device Port

The SAMD21 MCU has a USB device port that can be used to communicate with a host PC. See the USB device support sample applications for more, such as the USB CDC-ACM sample which sets up a virtual serial port that echos characters back to the host PC.

Programming and Debugging

The Trinket M0 ships the BOSSA compatible UF2 bootloader. The bootloader can be entered by quickly tapping the reset button twice.

Additionally, if CONFIG_USB_CDC_ACM is enabled then the bootloader will be entered automatically when you run west flash.

Flashing

  1. Build the Zephyr kernel and the Hello World sample application:

    west build -b adafruit_trinket_m0 samples/hello_world

  2. Connect the Trinket M0 to your host computer using USB

  3. Connect a 3.3 V USB to serial adapter to the board and to the host. See the Serial Port section above for the board’s pin connections.

  4. Run your favorite terminal program to listen for output. Under Linux the terminal should be /dev/ttyACM0. For example:

    $ minicom -D /dev/ttyACM0 -o

    The -o option tells minicom not to send the modem initialization string. Connection should be configured as follows:

    • Speed: 115200

    • Data: 8 bits

    • Parity: None

    • Stop bits: 1

  5. Tap the reset button twice quickly to enter bootloader mode

  6. Flash the image:

    west build -b adafruit_trinket_m0 samples/hello_world
west flash

    You should see “Hello World! adafruit_trinket_m0” in your terminal.

References