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Product eNews - June 2008

Welcome to the June Atmel Product eNews! This month's articles highlight some of our most-recently introduced products and the news surrounding them. If you have any colleagues that you feel would be interested in receiving our newsletter, feel free to forward this newsletter or the link to subscribe.

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Atmel Microcontrollers win Readers' Choice Award in Indian Electronics Magazine
Atmel's microcontrollers have been voted by readers of Electronics for You, one of India's most widely read electronics industry magazines, as winners in the Microcontrollers category for the second consecutive year. EFY awards recognize the leading individuals and enterprises in the Indian electronics industry. They are selected entirely by votes from EFY's extensive readership. This award, together with other recent awards for Atmel products in China and Malaysia, underlines the leadership that Atmel is establishing in these rapidly-emerging markets.
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Atmel AVR ONE! has been selected for the "Editor's Choice" AND "Readers' Choice" in eg3.com's first "Tech Choice" awards, category Embedded Tools
The AVR® ONE! is a powerful development tool for on-chip debugging and programming of all AVR32 devices. In the future AVR ONE! will also support all AVR devices. It supports debug interfaces including JTAG (IEEE 1149.1), debugWire, PDI and the Nexus (IEEE-ISTO 5001(TM)-2003) auxiliary interface for high-speed trace. It supports programming ISP, JTAG and PDI interfaces. AVR ONE! interfaces with AVR32 Studio. AVR ONE! is available at US$599 only while similar tools usually cost thousands of dollars. The AVR ONE! speeds up programming and supports non-intrusive observation and logging of how the embedded system performs. This allows the software engineer a clear view of real time system behavior, without affecting or modifying the real time characteristics of the microcontroller. Atmel AVR ONE award
New feature rich, low power 2.4 GHz radio transceiver
Atmel® has released AT86RF231, a major addition to the MCU Wireless product offering. The AT86RF231 is a feature rich, low-power 2.4 GHz radio transceiver designed for industrial and consumer ZigBee/IEEE 802.15.4 and high data rate 2.4 GHz ISM band applications. The radio transceiver is a true SPI-to-antenna solution. All RF-critical components except the antenna, crystal and de-coupling capacitors are integrated on-chip.
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AT86RF231
AVR USB 2.4GHz Wireless Reference Design for Battery-based PC Peripherals
Atmel Corporation announced the ATAVRUSBRF01 reference design for development with AVR® microcontrollers in the un-licensed 2.4 GHz ISM band and connection to PCs with USB. The AVRUSBRF01 enables the PC-Wireless connectivity using AVR USB microcontrollers. Designers can then develop battery-based, wireless peripheral applications using Atmel's 1.8V picoPower™ AVR microcontrollers that feature industry-best low power consumption. By using the same architecture and development platform for a complete project, designers can concentrate on endproduct optimization and get to the market faster.
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ATAVRUSBRF01 reference design
Free ATAVRRZRAVEN source code available
The source code for ATAVRRZRAVEN is now available in application note AVR2017. The application note supplies project files for both AVR Studio and the IAR development environments. Source code for both the application and the boot-loaders for all the three microcontrollers in the system are included.
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AT91SAM9G20 ARM9-based Microcontroller Offers Twice the Speed with Half the Power Consumption of Pin-compatible AT91SAM9260
Atmel's recently-released AT91SAM9G20 ARM926EJ-S?-based embedded microprocessor draws only 80 mW in full-power mode (400 MHz) with all peripherals turned on. This is half the power consumption of the pin-compatible 200 MHz AT91SAM9260. The AT91SAM9G20 also offers four times the cache and on-chip SRAM memory and features improved error correction for external NAND Flash as well as an enlarged Ethernet FIFO that improves latency compared with its predecessor. It is targeted at power-constrained applications that also need high performance, including point-of-sale terminals, building automation, security cameras and bar code readers.

The AT91SAM9G20 offers a wide choice of operating systems, with support for Microsoft® Windows CE®, .NET MF and Linux®, as well as a number of real-time operating systems (RTOS) and middleware products from industry-leading third parties including Adeneo®, IAR®, Keil™, Mentor Graphics®, Micrium, Segger and TimeSys®.
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AT91SAM9G20 Development Board
 

Tradeshows

Computex Taipei 2008
Taiwan
June 3-7, 2008
Booth #N027
Products showcased: Biometrics, Trusted Platform Module
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