Introduction

This driver for Atmel^® | SMART ARM^®-based microcontrollers provides an interface for the configuration and management of the device's Advanced Encryption Standard functionality. The following driver API modes are covered by this manual:

Polled APIs
Callback APIs

The Advanced Encryption Standard module supports all five confidentiality modes of operation for symmetrical key block cipher algorithms (as specified in the NIST Special Publication 800-38A Recommendation):

Electronic Code Book (ECB)
Cipher Block Chaining (CBC)
Output Feedback (OFB)
Cipher Feedback (CFB)
Counter (CTR)

The following peripheral is used by this module:

AES (Advanced Encryption Standard)

The following devices can use this module:

Atmel | SMART SAM L21
Atmel | SMART SAM L22

The outline of this documentation is as follows:

Prerequisites
Module Overview
Special Considerations
Extra Information
Examples
API Overview