Today at Embedded World Nuremberg 2011, Atmel Corporation announced the world's first family of high-precision digital temperature sensors with both integrated nonvolatile registers and integrated Serial EEPROM memory. This combination allows for user-configured settings to be retained across power cycles to simplify the system design, reduce processor start-up code, improve reliability, and ensure proper operation. The Atmel AT30TS750 family is ...

Today at Embedded World Nuremberg 2011, Atmel Corporation announced a new, easy-to-use cryptographic authentication device with enhanced hardware security features and increased flexibility. The ultra-low power Atmel ATSHA204 is the first turnkey, optimized authentication device to include a 4.5Kbit EEPROM and a hardware SHA-256 accelerator. Fully tested ASF software libraries are available for Atmel AVR® and ARM®-based microcontrollers a...

Frederic Gaillard of Atmel shows his demo board the SAM9M10 ARM9 processor running Android 2.1, with a maXTouch-enabled screen. A cool applicationdemo with touch-screen, UI, WiFi and various on-board applications like media players and the infamous Dotty.

Atmel® Corporation today announced the release of the Atmel UC3C AT32UC3C0512C AVR microcontroller with 512KB of embedded flash memory. As a committed supplier to the automotive industry, Atmel continues to bring new automotive-qualified microcontroller (MCU) solutions to market. This device is the first member of a 32-bit AVR MCU family dedicated to motor control applications such as HVAC, power window, power doors and power seats, featuring PW...

Atmel Corporation announced a new fully integrated platform of easy-to-use development tools for its fast-growing community of over 100,000 users of 8- and 32-bit AVR embedded microcontrollers. The new Atmel AVR Studio 5 is an enhanced version of the popular Atmel Integrated Development Environment with support for all 8- and 32-bit AVR MCUs, making developers significantly more effective, and enables seamless migration between Atmel's 8-bit and ...

Atmel announced a new family of QTouch capacitive touch controllers for implementing button, slider and wheel (BSW) functionality on application-specific devices. The new Atmel AT42QT1070 and AT42QT2120 devices offer designers an easy-to-use solution with no firmware development, reduced bill of materials and lower power consumption. In addition, the AT42QT2120 device offers the industry's greatest proximity range of up to 8 inches to enable uniq...

Atmel today announced it is collaborating with NVIDIA to bring high-performance, multi-touch, large-format touchscreen solutions to market. This reference design includes two award-winning devices, including the NVIDIA® Tegra(TM) 2 mobile super chip and Atmel's maXTouch® mXT1386 solution, to power touchscreens up to 15 inches for smartphones, tablet PCs, mobile Internet devices and other applications.

The Atmel expanding portfolio of digital temperature sensors can be used to address a variety of temperature monitoring needs in applications such as DDR3 DIMMs, Lithium Ion (Li-Ion) and Lithium Polymer batteries, Plasma and LCD TVs, notebook and desktop computers, workstations and servers, digital video recorders (DVRs), energy meters, industrial controls, and various medical devices.

Atmel today announced the maXTouch E Series of single-chip capacitive touchscreen controllers for touchscreens from 2 to 12 inches. The mXT224E, mXT384E, mXT540E and mXT768E devices offer enhanced analog sensing with a third generation capacitive touch engine and Atmel's advanced AVR® architecture optimized for capacitive sensing. Offering 224 to 768 nodes, the new series enables system designers to select the industry's most advanced single-...

Atmel announced several new devices to enable an automotive designer to easily develop lower-cost designs with enhanced connectivity, improved safety and increased Li-Ion battery life. These solutions will enable automotive designers to create innovative automotive applications with a Li-Ion battery management solution featuring active cell balancing, LIN transceiver families with ultra-low power wake-up management, a single-chip car access devic...

Atmel claimed the first standard product capacitive touch controller in the industry that is fully qualified for the automotive market. Based on the patented QTouch capacitive touch technology for buttons, sliders and wheels, the AT42QT1110 is a ready-to-use 11-key capacitive touch controller that meets all device specification requirements for the automotive industry. These products are ideal for automobile applications such as global positionin...

Atmel announced the availability of the new single-chip AES-128 immobilizer and remote keyless entry AVR microcontroller for combi-key applications. This combi-key application will enable a fully integrated solution for automotive manufacturers and consumers seeking an easier to use, integrated system. Atmel's ATA5795 is specifically targeted for high-volume, uni-directional car keys, while the immobilizer and the remote keyless entry functions a...

Atmel today announced that it will be exhibiting at SAE Convergence 2010 located at Cobo Center, Detroit, Michigan on October 19-20, 2010. The company's exhibit will demonstrate its expertise and commitment to the automotive sector with separate workstations highlighting:

Atmel today announced that it has achieved ZigBee Certified status for the Atmel Key Remote Controller based on the ZigBee Remote Control standard and the ATmega128RFA1 single-chip wireless device microcontroller. With this certification, Atmel Key Remote Controller users can now run the ZigBee Remote Control software profile stack to gain secure and interoperable RF-based remote controls with two-way communication and no line-of-sight requiremen...

Atmel announced a collaboration to provide an end-to-end audio platform for premium-quality audio playback. The result of this collaboration is an audio reference design that provides premium-quality sound combining the Atmel AVR UC3 32-bit microcontroller with the Bang & Olufsen ICEpower's MobileSound 3--a fully digital, low-power single chip stereo Class D speaker amplifier, headphone amplifier and audio digital signal processor. The refere...

SleepWalking: evaluating input data without using the CPU, on the 32-bit AVR microcontroller UC3L. Saving Power without sacrificing functionalities and performance.

Atmel announced that Sharp Corporation has selected Atmel's maXTouch mXT224 touch controller to power the SH8128U smartphone. Atmel's maXTouch solution will offer Sharp SH8128U smartphone users the ability to reject unintended touches, more precise touch performance, and better battery life for an overall better user experience. Available in the China market today, the new Sharp smartphone runs on Tapas OS--an operating system based on Android th...

Atmel today announced it is shipping production quantities of the Atmel maXTouch mXT1386 and mXT616 chipsets for large touchscreens up to 15 inches. Atmel maXTouch technology has established a leading position in one of the fastest growing markets in the entire semiconductor industry. The new mXT1386/mXT616 chipsets are the newest members of the maXTouch family and will power a number of upcoming touch devices including tablet PCs, smartbooks, mo...

A quick demo of Automotive/Car Access products from Atmel, including QProx-enabled handle.

Atmel® Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch solutions, today announced the release of a complete immobilizer protocol stack, based on the AES-128 cryptography standard, under an open source license. As the industry's first to deliver this open source immobilizer protocol stack, Atmel shows its commitment to the worldwide automotive market and helps improve an engineer's time-to-market with their designs.