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| Atmel's AVR XMEGA Redefines System Performance for 8/16-bit Microcontrollers |
Atmel recently announced the AVR® XMEGA™ family, an important addition to their successful AVR microcontrollers. The system performance of AVR XMEGA expands the market reach for 8/16-bit microcontrollers. With second generation of picoPower™ technology, XMEGA is the only family of Flash microcontrollers with true 1.6V operation. The ultra low power consumption is combined with fast 12-bit analog functions, a DMA controller, an innovative Event System and a crypto engine. All features free CPU resources which minimize power consumption and increase system performance.
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| Atmel's CAP Customizable Microcontroller Named 2007 Product of the Year by EPC Magazine |
| Atmel's CAP™ customizable microcontroller has been named as one of the 20 Products of the Year by Electronic Products China (EPC) Magazine. The selection was made by a panel of editors and industry experts based on the criteria of significant advancements of a technology or its application, innovative design and substantial achievement in price/performance. The twenty winners were selected from all categories of semiconductors across all applications that were launched in China in 2007. This is the third major industry award for CAP, after awards from Portable Design China and Electronic Design News (EDN). It clearly established CAP as a highly innovative product well adapted to its target markets. |
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| AT91SAM7L Ultra-low Power ARM7-based Microcontroller Targets Energy-constrained Applications |
Atmel has launched the industry's first ultra-low power ARM7TDMI®-based Flash microcontrollers, the AT91SAM7L series, featuring a power-down mode that consumes only 100 nA. Energy use is minimized in all operational modes by embedding power switches that control multiple power islands and programmable voltage regulators, as well as clock gating and variable clock speeds for each functional element. The SAM7L series responds to a rapidly growing demand for more power efficient products that is driven by a market trend towards environmentally friendly, battery operated and portable products like media players, remote controls, weather stations, calculators, toys, control panels, thermostats and hand-held medical devices such as glucose meters, blood pressure meters and fitness monitors. The demand for green products is also pushing manufacturers to consider low-power standby modes on products supplied by the power grid.
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| AT91SAM9R ARM9-based Microcontroller Targets Space Constrained USB-enabled Applications |
The AT91SAM9R64 ARM9-based microcontroller is aimed at high performance USB-enabled embedded control applications. Designed to boot from the USB port, SDCard or an external NAND Flash, the SAM9R64 offers the flexibility to reduce the number of memories for program and bulk data storage. In addition, this 32-bit microcontroller is optimized for space constrained applications, or intelligent USB High Speed to SDIO, or SPI connectivity modules by being in a 10X10mm, 0.8mm ball pitch, BGA package.
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| AT91SAM9RL ARM9-based Microcontroller Supports "Smart" Control Panels |
The AT91SAM9RL64 ARM9-based interactive graphical user interface (GUI) microcontroller features sufficiently high data throughput, ideal peripherals and operating system support to implement "smart" control panel applications that can provide access to content including user manuals, video clips and audio, as well as offering a robust interface to system control functions. The SAM9RL64 can be used as the main processor in a system or as the co-processor dedicated to the user interface. A USB High Speed link provides the bandwidth to transfer streaming video between a host- and the AT91SAM9RL64 co-processor.
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| Atmel Raises the Performance Limit for ARM9 Flash Microcontrollers above 200 MIPS |
The AT91SAM9XE-series, the first generation of monolithic ARM9-based Flash microcontrollers, combines a 200-MIPS ARM926EJ-S™ processor core with up to 512K bytes of high-performance on-chip Flash. These devices also integrate SRAM and Boot ROM with USB Host/Device, Ethernet, Multiple Serial Interfaces and DMA for maximum performance, connectivity, and data bandwidth. This gives them an unrivalled combination of performance and functionality on a single chip, making these Flash microcontrollers ideal for space-constrained applications where high performance is required.
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| Atmel Introduces an AVR-based 2.4 GHz Wireless Evaluation and Development Platform at $99 |
Atmel recently announced the availability of the AVR® RZ Raven evaluation kit that provides designers a unique ready-to-use development platform in the rapidly growing low power wireless market for the 2.4GHz ISM frequency band available worldwide.
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| Atmel® introduces STK600, a starter kit supporting all AVR® Flash microcontrollers including tinyAVR, megaAVR, AVR XMEGA and AVR32 UC3 product families. |
All features from STK500 are found in STK600. STK600 connects to a PC running AVR Studio or AVR32 Studio via USB.
Support for multiple devices is achieved through a system with routing cards and socket adapter cards. The socket adapter cards have Zero Insertion Force (ZIF) sockets supporting all AVR devices. The routing cards route the pins for each variant in the same package to the connectors and other functions of the STK600 main board.
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| Atmel Introduces AVR Microcontrollers for Automotive Motor Control Applications. |
Atmel recently announced the availability of a new family of AVR® 8-bit microcontrollers dedicated to motor control applications for automotive. The ATmega16M1 and ATmega32M1 are the first devices developed for the control of sensor and sensorless brushless DC (BLDC) motors for automotive applications.
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| Trango Hypervisor Virtualizes Atmel's CAP Customizable Microcontroller |
In order to reduce the development time for application software running on Atmel's CAP™ customizable ARM9-based microcontroller, Trango Virtual Processors, a leading provider of Embedded Virtualization IP, has launched a CAP port of its Hypervisor. By creating multiple machine-independent virtual instances of the underlying CAP architecture, Trango's Hypervisor significantly reduces the time taken to develop CAP application software, and enables existing software to be re-used with minimal modification. Trango's Hypervisor runs on both the AT91CAP9A-STK Starter Kit for rapid prototyping and on the AT91CAP9A-DK Development Kit for in-depth application development. The joint solution enables customers to benefit from highly flexible customization, faster time to market and significant cost reduction in their CPU and system designs.
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Tradeshows |
RSA Conference 2008
Moscone Convention Center - San Francisco
April 8-10, 2008
Booth #1344
Products showcased: CryptoMemory, CryptoRF, CryptoCompanion, CryptoController, Atmel TPM, Fingerchip, AT98SC Security Solution, AT91SO System-On-Chip Security Solution
http://www.atmel.com/corporate/RSA2008.asp |
Cards 2008 Brazil
Frei Caneca Convention Center - Brazil
April 14-16, 2008
Booth #2
Products showcased: AT90SC Series, AT91SO Series, CryptoMemory®, CryptoRF®, CryptoCompanion™ and Smart Card Reader ICs
http://www.atmel.com/corporate/cards_brazil2008.asp |
ESC Silicon Valley Conference 2008
McEnery Convention Center - San Jose
April 14-18, 2008
Booth #928
Products showcased: AT91SAM, ARM-based MCUs, AT91CAP, AVR, XMEGA, AVR32, CryptoMemory
http://www.atmel.com/corporate/ESC2008.asp |
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