Atmel Corporation today announced the availability of the Xplain evaluation kit for its AVR XMEGATM 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, ...

Atmel Corporation today announced its CryptoAuthentication Starter Kit. The AT88CK109STK3 is a modular and versatile development kit for Atmel’s CryptoAuthentication AT88SA102S and AT88SA100S client security devices and AT88SA10HS host security companion IC. Atmel’s CryptoAuthentication devices are the industry’s most secure authentication ICs that include an embedded SHA-256 engine and 256-bit cryptographic key to make them vir...

Atmel has announced the appointment of Joerg Strughold as Vice President of European Sales. In his new role, Joerg will be responsible for growing sales revenue in the European region. He reports directly to Rob Valiton, vice president of the Americas & EMEA Sales and Global Sales Operations.

Atmel has announced the availability of a new Li-Ion battery management chipset for high-cell-count automotive and industrial applications such as electrical/hybrid vehicles, e-bikes or uninterruptible power supplies. Atmel is currently the only supplier to provide a complete two-chip protection solution including all necessary functionalities with the highest safety level.

Atmel has announced the availability of a new active antenna integrated circuit (IC) designed for AM/FM car antenna applications. The new ATR4252 IC provides the industry's highest integration, automatic gain control, supply voltage regulator with overvoltage protection and an antenna sensor. Designers can now develop smaller, high-performance active antenna solutions for applications located in the mirror, bumper, rear or side windows of a car. ...

Atmel Corporation today announced the first ATA874x single-chip UHF ASK/FSK RF transmitter family targeting a broad range of proprietary wireless industrial and consumer applications such as metering, alarm systems and home control applications. This new AVR product family offers industry-leading RF performance operating in the license-free ISM frequency bands (868 to 928 MHz, 433 MHz, and 315 MHz).

Atmel has announced the SAM9G45-EK evaluation kit to support application development on the company's 400 MHz ARM926-based embedded microprocessor (MPU) with DDR2 memory. The SAM9G45 offers 480 Mbps EHCI-compliant high-speed USB with on-chip PHY, Ethernet and SDIO for high-speed connectivity, plus LCD and touch sensing for intelligent user-interfaces (iUIs), and programmable 1.8 or 3.3 V I/O supply voltage implemented in a high-data bandwidth arc...

Atmel Corporation has announced that the BitCloud ZigBee PRO stack has been awarded ZigBee Smart Energy product certification. BitCloud Smart Energy offers utility companies a secure, proven and easy-to-use technology for wireless home area networks (HANs) by connecting in-premise devices, such as meters, thermostats and smart appliances, to each other and to wide area energy distribution and control networks. ZigBee Smart Energy enables utility ...

Atmel has announced the availability of a 128 KB picoPower megaAVR microcontroller, targeting size-constrained, low-power applications. The small 44-pin package makes the ATmega1284P ideal for applications such as wireless and ethernet nodes, home automation and other code-intensive battery or signal-line powered products, combined with its ultra-low-power consumption, 128 KB of flash and 16 KB of random access memory (RAM).

Atmel Corporation has announced a version 3.0 of the royalty-free Atmel QTouch software library with up to 64 channels of touch support for all Atmel AVR microcontrollers (MCUs) and select 32-bit AVR32 UC3. The increased channel support, and wider range of supported microcontrollers, provide designers with several library files for each device to enable a more flexible and efficient design. By selecting the appropriate library file, designers can...

Atmel has announced the production release of its new maXTouch family of capacitive touchscreen controller solutions, capable of supporting an unlimited number of unique simultaneous touches with a video-quality screen refresh rate of 250 Hz. Atmel's new maXTouch technology platform supports the development of touchscreens surpassing 10 inches with full zoom, rotate, handwriting and shape recognition functionality.

Atmel and Cryptography Research, Inc. (CRI) announced today an agreement regarding the use of CRI’s patents to enhance the security of Atmel’s tamper-resistant chips against Differential Power Analysis (DPA) and related attacks. Under the agreement, Atmel receives the freedom to use CRI's patents as part of its strategy to develop and enhance its security chips used in smart cards and other applications. The license also covers software exec...

Atmel has announced today three new 6-pin picoPower AVR microcontrollers. The ATtiny4, ATtiny5, and ATtiny9 are targeted towards size and cost constrained high volume consumer applications requiring processing power and low current consumption. These new devices are all pin and code compatible, offering a rich feature set including 512bytes or 1K byte of programmable Flash memory, 32 bytes of internal SRAM, 4-channel 8-bit A/D converter (in ATti...

Atmel announced today a new family of AVR microcontrollers targeted at the industrial control market. The ATmega16M1, ATmega32M1, and ATmega64M1 have been developed to serve the need for high accuracy pulse width modulation (PWM) for advanced motor control applications with CAN and LIN connectivity.

Atmel has announced a new custom architecture for 90nm SiliconCity ASIC development, providing up to 350K gates/mm2, offering customers gate densities in the range of a standard cell ASIC. SiliconCity Flexible Architecture allows designers to create their own unique base wafer architecture for multiple product variations while generously reducing customer design time, lowering the NRE and reducing risk through design reuse.

Atmel announced today the release of the SAM9G45, the first member of a series of 400 MHz ARM926 embedded MPUs that support second generation Dual Data Rate DRAM (DDR2) and are optimized for industrial applications such as building automation, data loggers, POS terminals, alarm systems and medical equipment. Peripherals include EHCI-compliant high-speed USB with on-chip PHy, dual EBI, 10/100 Ethernet MAC, LCD and Touchscreen controller, programma...

Atmel has announced a new radiation-hardened SPARC processor for space applications, the AT697 Revision F delivering 90 MIPs at 100 MHz over full temperature and voltage ranges for only 0.7W. With more than 1600 flight models of its predecessor, the TSC695E, sold around the world, Atmel has an unrivalled flight heritage on this SPARC V7 processor version.

Atmel has announced the availability of the SAM3U-EK Evaluation Kit for rapid application development on the industry’s first ARM Cortex -M3 based Flash microcontroller with high-speed 480 Mbps USB + Phy. In addition to a plug-and-play socket for the high-speed USB device it features a high speed SDIO/SDCard/MMC slot, two UART connectors, a ZigBee radio header, two analog inputs, audio in- and outputs and a JTAG-ICE debug port. For applicat...

Atmel has announced its AT88SA100S ultra low-cost, cryptographic battery authentication IC for mobile-phones, cameras, portable power tools, and other battery-powered applications. The AT88SA100S CrytpoAuthentication IC is the only battery authentication IC that uses a SHA-256 cryptographic engine and a 256-bit key that cannot be cracked using brute force methods. It is used to protect mobile phones, portable power tools, cameras, and other micro...

Atmel has announced that the company has received LIN2.1 certification for its LIN transceiver ATA6662 and LIN System Basis Chip ATA6624. The LIN2.1 physical layer test, which is the basis for LIN certification as defined by the LIN Consortium, was successfully carried out by the LIN-Consortium-certified test house C&S Group, Wolfenbuettel, Germany. Consequently, Atmel's entire LIN product range fully conforms to the worldwide LIN2.1 standard...