I am writing a book on XMEGA and atmel documents are the only reference for me. These documents are full of mistakes and errors and I have reported tens of errors to atmel. But errors are still present and there is not any modification from atmel. For example, XMEGA A manual was not updated since 2009 and I don't know when does atmel modify this document.
Isn't any atmel-man present in this forum and does anyone know why atmel does not update the documents?
When does atmel modify XMEGA document errors?
Perhaps they are waiting until they fix the hardware. :)
I asked the question from atmel support and this is the answer:
New Xmega data sheets will be available soon. I have no exact date, but we are working on releasing new data sheets this summer which should be a bit update. Thank you for your interests in Atmel products.
Perhaps you should now ask them when the hardware problems will be fixed.
Good idea. I will do it.
Perhaps you should now ask them when the hardware problems will be fixed.
Good idea. I will do it.
That is some truly cruel humor, Leon...
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I got a couple of ATxmega32A4 chips a long time ago, and started designing a PCB. Atmel didn't seem interested in fixing the bugs so I never finished it off.
Actually, it seems many are giving the xmega series a bad name. Our own ganzziani has had a great deal of success with the ATxmega32A4 in his XProtoLab. Gosh, it does precise ADC, DMA transfers, multiple timers, AWG using DMA, many faceted triggers (i.e. rising/falling triggers), protocol sniffing, 115k uart transfers, EEPROM storage. Seems like the "bugs" have not had any affect on the success of this product! :roll: :roll:
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Good news from atmel support:
Engineering samples of the new silicon revision should be available at the same time as the new datasheets.
Actually, it seems many are giving the xmega series a bad name. Our own ganzziani has had a great deal of success with the ATxmega32A4 in his XProtoLab. Gosh, it does precise ADC, DMA transfers, multiple timers, AWG using DMA, many faceted triggers (i.e. rising/falling triggers), protocol sniffing, 115k uart transfers, EEPROM storage. Seems like the "bugs" have not had any affect on the success of this product! :roll: :roll:-W0CNN-
It doesn't appear to have been all that popular, though. Many other users on this forum have avoided it like the plague.
Good news from atmel support:
It would be better news if it included a date (even just a year!)
It would be better news if it included a date (even just a year!)
New Xmega data sheets will be available soon. I have no exact date, but we are working on releasing new data sheets this summer which should be a bit update.
How many years has it taken?
this summer
What a coincidence - "Summer" actually starts today in fact - does that mean they are available from today onwards? :-)
The Equinox is on September 23rd - so I guess the clock's running...
Isn't summer June, July and August? On that basis, they have until the end of August to sort things out.
Isn't summer June, July and August?
You sound almost as bad as my wife (in Ireland Summer is literally just May, June and July).
In the UK and a lot of the world (though see exceptions at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sum... ) it's from the Summer Solstice until the Autumnal Equinox. So it is June 21st to September 23rd this year.
I used the meteorological definition. It might be different in Norway, of course.
That's the first hint I've heard from Atmel in a couple of years that revised Xmega silicon might actually become real. Not that I'm holding my breath, but it'd be great if it really happened this year.
Interesting... I wonder how many new bugs they will introduce.
What a bunch of 'glass is half empty' worriers. What we need to do in the mean time is write a comprehensive Test Suite for all the Xmega features that are fixed/improved to demonstrate the new improved proper operation.