Atmel has launched its next-gen maXTouch U family, bringing the world’s first capacitive touchscreen solution to aid display design. OEMs will no longer have to worry about touch and display performance when selecting thinner stacks such as on-cell, hybrid in-cell, full in-cell touchscreens utilising very thin film and glass substrates.

Four series of MCUs, which are particularly suitable for the automotive, IoT and industrial connectivity markets, have been introduced by Atmel. The M7-based SAM E70, SAM S70, SAM V70 and SAM V71, which expand the company’s Atmel | SMART ARM Cortex-M-based MCU portfolio, offer outstanding memory and connectivity options for design flexibility.

At CES 2015, which takes place from 6th to 9th January in Las Vegas, Atmel will be showcasing its next-gen automotive technology demonstrator, AvantCar 2.0. The fully functional center console uses Atmel technologies to demonstrate a connected car concept, showcasing car access, car networking, MCUs, audio streaming over-Ethernet-AVB and CryptoAuthentication products. 

Atmel has announced that it will be exhibiting solutions for powering smart, secure and connected IoT applications at the 2015 International CES, which takes place from 6th to 9th January at the Las Vegas Convention Center, in Las Vegas, Nevada. In meeting room number MP25760, located in the South Hall, Atmel will be showcasing a variety of solutions in four technology zones: the SMART LIVING ZONE, the AUTOMOTIVE ZONE, the MAKER ZONE and the...

Atmel and Fingerprint Cards (FPC) have announced that they are bringing capacitive touchscreens and fingerprint touch area sensor technology to smart devices. Through the synergies between fingerprint and touchscreens, the two companies saw an opportunity to co-develop and merge their solutions to provide intelligent UIs.

Designed for touch-enabled UIs, the QTouch Surface platform has been released by Atmel. Built on the QTouch capacitive touch button sensing technology, the platform features an on-chip peripheral touch controller, enabling higher performance capacitive touch on Atmel MCUs. The platform consumes less than 4µA, making it suitable for wearables and other battery-powered applications that require a capacitive touch user interface.

Claimed to be the industry’s first high-precision digital temperature sensors with the widest Vcc range, from 1.7 to 5.5V, Atmel has announced the AT30TS74, AT30TS75A, AT30TS750A, AT30TSE752A, AT30TSE754A and AT30TSE758A. Available with integrated nonvolatile registers and serial EEPROM, the family delivers high temperature accuracy and fast I2C bus communication speeds for consumer, industrial, computer, and medical applications.

A fully integrated FCC-certified WiFi module with a standalone MCU and hardware security from a single source, which is claimed to be an industry first, has been released by Atmel. Alongside the company’s SMART SAM D21 ARM Cortex M0+-based MCU and ATECC108A optimised CryptoAuthentication engine, the SmartConnect SAM W25 module features Atmel’s recently announced 2.4GHz IEEE 802.11 b/g/n WiFi WINC1500.

At Electronica 2014, Atmel Corporation launched its next-generation of 8-bit megaAVR MCUs. Ranging from 4KB to 16KB Flash memory, the new devices provide next-generation enhancements including additional analog functionality and features for the latest low-power consumer, industrial, white goods and Internet of Things (IoT) applications.A

Having achieved the SIGFOX-ready certification, Atmel’s ATA8520 device is claimed to be the industry's first SIGFOX ReadyTM certified SoC. Low cost, long-range and low-power wireless connectivity for a wide array of IoT applications is enabled by the combination of Atmel’s SIGFOX-certified IC with SIGFOX’s proprietary network.

Atmel and SMARTRAC have jointly announced their co-operation to market LF transponders and inlays for animal identification globally. The Atmel ATA5575M2 RFID IC supports ISO11784 and ISO11785 standards, using the FDX-A and FDX-B formats for animal identification. It is the only RFID solution available that supports FDX-A, the animal identification standard using full duplex 125KHz technology with FSK modulation.

Atmel has introduced the QTouch safety platform for capacitive touch-enabled user interfaces in the home appliance market. The platform adds mandatory safety and supports the Atmel SMART ARM Cortex-M0+ based MCUs for safety critical home appliance applications.

Designed for automotive body, power-train, infotainment sensor and actuator applications, the ATA6632/33/34 family of Local Interconnect Networking (LIN) transceivers, SBCs and voltage regulators has been introduced by Atmel. According to the company, the family is the industry’s first to comply with the new OEM hardware recommendations and provide scalable functionality to improve the overall system cost.

Atmel will target the industrial and automotive markets with its recently-introduced family of CAN transceivers. Providing an interface between a CAN protocol controller and the physical two-wire CAN bus, Atmel’s ATA6560 and ATA6561 support the new CAN FD standard with data rates of up to 5Mb/s.

At European Utility Week 2014, a family of wireless transceivers was launched by Atmel. Expanding the Atmel | SMART metering portfolio, the AT86RF215 family includes the AT86RF215, a dual-band transceiver supporting sub-1 and 2.4GHz, the AT86RF215M, a single band sub-1GHz transceiver and the AT86RF215IQ, a dual-band I/Q radio.

Atmel will be exhibiting it's IoT products at electronica 2014, which takes place from 11th to 14th November. The company will showcase products which are designed to enable smart, connected and secure devices in the IoT at the show’s SMART HOME, INDUSTRIAL, AUTOMOTIVE and MAKER zones. At 542.A5 Atmel will also launch IoT products.

Suitable for residential, commercial and industrial metering applications, the SAM4C32, SAM4CMS32 and SAM4CMP32 dual core MCUs have been introduced by Atmel. The MCUs, which are pin-to-pin compatible with existing 512KB and 1MB devices in the Atmel SMART portfolio, feature 2MB of cache-enabled dual-bank flash and enable scalability and design-reuse for next-gen smart metering platforms.

At ARM TechCon 2014, Atmel Corporation announced the company has expanded its Atmel SMART portfolio with the SAMA5D4, a new series of high-performance microprocessors (MPUs) based on the ARMCortex-A5 processor. The SAMA5D4 offers OEMs seamless technology for Internet of Things (IoT), consumer and industrial applications including control panels, communication gateways, imaging terminals and more.

In this episode of the Atmel Edge, Analog Aficionado Paul Rako discusses the importance of understanding ground symbols and using the right ones in your schematic. Earth ground, chassis ground, power supply return and shield are all different. This video explains why.

Atmel is now shipping production quantities of its new Atmel SAM D20 MCUs, the first series in a new family of ultra-low power embedded Flash microcontrollers based on the ARM Cortex-M0+ processor. In this era of the Internet of Things, products used in building automation, consumer electronics, smart metering, and industrial controls are becoming smarter and more connected.