14 New Devices Deliver Wider Design Opportunities to Broad Range of Application Areas Including Consumer Electronics, Capacitive Touch, Utility Metering, Home Automation and Medical
Atmel Corporation announced 14 new devices in its widely adopted Atmel AVR® microcontroller (MCU) family, providing more options to meet unique design requirements. Used by well over 100,000 engineers worldwide, AVR microcontrollers are regarded for their performance, power efficiency and flexibility across many application areas. Adding more memory, connectivity peripherals and system integration, the newest devices further extend the advantages of the AVR family, while supporting a broader array of application areas including consumer electronics, capacitive touch, utility metering, home automation and medical.
These AVR MCUs meet a common demand across multiple application areas: low power consumption. All devices in the portfolio are designed for the lowest possible power consumption using Atmel picoPower® technology, operating down to 1.62V while maintaining all functionality and short wake-up times. The AVR MCU portfolio also includes devices that support Atmel QTouch® Library for capacitive touch functions.
New AVR devices include:
- Atmel AVR XMEGA C MCUs: 8-/16-bit general-purpose MCUs with Full-Speed USB, AVR XMEGA C devices deliver the product line’s highest Flash and SRAM memory densities as well as the largest 8-bit MCU on the market with up to 384KB Flash and up to 32KB of SRAM. The eight new devices available are ideal for consumer, industrial and home automation applications.
- Atmel tinyAVR ATtiny1634 MCUs: Small-package, ultra-low power devices, the ATtiny 1634 MCUs feature multiple easy-to-use digital interfacing options—including more communication interfaces than existing devices in the product line—and up to 16KB Flash memory. This new device is ideal for interfacing and control in industrial and consumer applications.
- Atmel AVR UC3 L3 MCUs: The AVR UC3 L3 MCUs feature ultra-low power consumption and more Flash memory, integrated USB controller, I2S support, audio bit-stream digital-to-analog converter (ABDAC) and package options with more pins. With the three new devices available, designers can now implement more advanced algorithms requiring more memory in their low-power applications, such as consumer products.
- Atmel AVR UC3 D4 MCUs: Low-power, feature-rich, entry-level 32-bit MCUs, the AVR UC3 D4 devices offer enhanced performance and rich features—including a hardware-based QTouch capacitive touch interface and Full-Speed USB. The two new devices available are ideal for high data throughput applications in areas such as USB human interface, biometrics, bridging and industrial control.
Optimized MCU Design Environment
All Atmel AVR MCUs are supported by the company’s new Atmel Studio 6 integrated development environment, which now also supports Atmel ARM Cortex-M processor-based MCUs. Atmel Studio 6 delivers the industry’s most optimized MCU design environment for more than 300 AVR and ARM processor-based microcontrollers. With more than 1,000 project examples with source code, design engineers can eliminate most of the low-level coding in their designs, achieving faster time to market.
Availability
In the AVR XMEGA line, the ATxmega384C3, ATxmega256C3, ATxmega192C3 and ATxmega384D3 are sampling now and other devices will begin sampling in Q2 and Q3 2012, with volume shipments to follow. All AVR UC3 L3 and AVR UC3 D4 devices are available for orders. All AVR ATtiny1634 devices are available now, with the exception of the ATTiny1634-UUR, which will be available in Q2 2012.
