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Atmel Introduces $29 Evaluation Kit for AVR XMEGA San Jose, CA, November 2, 2009 - Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) today announced the availability of the Xplain evaluation kit for its AVR® XMEGA™ microcontroller family. With a suggested resale price of $29 USD, this kit enables users the ability to evaluate features and system performance of Atmel's XMEGA at a minimum hardware cost. The kit is powered through a mini USB connector where end-users can develop their own applications on XMEGA using Xplain. The 8-/16-bit XMEGA microcontrollers, introduced in 2008, are optimized for ultra- low power and high system performance with a very innovative and complete feature set well suited for a wide range of applications. Atmel's ATxmega128A1 is the onboard XMEGA device in the Xplain kit. The device is a 100-pin, general purpose microcontroller with 128 KB of In-System Programmable Flash memory and an 8 KB boot section in Flash that can also be used as additional application memory. The ATxmega128A1 contains all features available in the XMEGA family which includes, but is not limited to, a DMA controller, Event system, 12-bit high speed analog peripherals, AES and DES crypto module, external bus interface and all second-generation picoPower™ features achieving the market's lowest power consumption microcontrollers. For evaluation and development purposes, the Xplain kit contains a speaker with an audio amplifier, a potentiometer and temperature sensor, which are all connected to the 12-bit DAC or ADC on the ATxmega128A1 device. The external memories include an 8 MB SDRAM and an 8 MB serial DataFlash®, and eight buttons and eight LEDs for basic user interface and application interaction are also available. Spare digital and analog pins on the ATxmega128A1 are available through pin-headers for external analog input and output, digital input and output, PWM, input capture, and USART, SPI and I2C-compatible TWI communication. The Xplain kit is shipped with basic code programmed into the ATxmega128A1 to demonstrate the use of buttons, LEDs and the speaker on the kit. Documentation includes a user guide, schematics and a full bill of materials available at: http://www.atmel.com/Xplain. Additional code examples, good design practices recommendations and general hints and tips are available as application notes at: http://www.atmel.com/AVR. Xplain supports other development tools from Atmel including the JTAGICE mkII debugger, AVRISP mkII programmer and AVR Studio® - the free AVR IDE Software Development Tool available at http://www.atmel.com/AVRStudio. By using these tools with Xplain, users have the ability to do on-chip debugging or in-system programming. More information on the XMEGA microcontroller family is available at: http://www.atmel.com/XMEGA. Availability, Pricing and Photo To download a high-resolution of the Xplain board, please click the following link: http://www.atmel.com/images/homepage_new/press/xplain_side.jpg About Atmel Information: Press Contacts: |