Atmel LED driver family offers intelligent control for backlighting and solid state lighting markets; Combination of new LED drivers with Atmel AVR and ARM-based MCUs offer optimal power efficiency, flexibility networking ability and lower BOM.

Atmel Corp has been named the winner in the Semiconductors and Electronic Components category for the American Technology Awards, which bestows the only “Best Of” awards that recognize all technology products and services for the technology industry. The award was attributed to the Atmel® maXTouch™ largescreen solution that supports touchscreens up to 15 inches for emerging products including tablets, smartbooks, mobile Internet devices (...

Connecting seamlessly to Atmel AVR Studio 5 and all Atmel 8- and 32-bit AVR MCUs, JTAGICE3 offers a faster, smaller and more robust in-circuit debugger

Atmel maXTouch technology enables more responsive touchscreen for Samsung's Ultra-Slim Galaxy; Tablet weighs just 1.25 pounds at 8.6 mm thick with a 1280 x 800 display, an NVIDIA dual-core Tegra 2 processor, and Android Honeycomb 3.1

Atmel announced the release of the Sensors Xplained software drivers integrated with the recently-launched AVR Studio 5 Integrated Development Environment (IDE). The new software drivers accelerate application and device development by providing driver and calibration support for a variety of the most popular sensor types used in consumer, industrial and medical applications.

Atmel today announced that the Atmel SAM9G45 and SAM9M10 ARM-based products will support the Android operating system (OS) for applications in consumer, industrial and computing markets. Based on the 32-bit ARM926 processor, Atmel SAM9G45 and SAM9M10's ARM9(TM)-based microcontrollers are now compatible with Android, with full board support package (BSP) for the Android OS using SAM9M10-G45-EK boards.

Atmel today announced that ASUS, a leading computer manufacturer, has selected the Atmel maXTouch solution to power the touchscreen for the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer tablet.

Atmel announced through the Atmel University Program its sponsorship to the Oregon State University Mars Rover Program scheduled to debut on May 24 in the main lobby of the Union Bank Building in Portland, Oregon.

Atmel® Corporation has announced that its Board of Directors has authorized an additional $300 million allocation of funds to its existing common stock repurchase program.

Atmel ATAES132 offers larger storage capacity, rich feature set, true random number generation and secure counter capabilities with AES-CCM authentication for industrial, consumer, computing, and embedded applications

Atmel offers a complete line of IEEE 802.15.4-compliant and ZigBee-certified wireless RF transceivers, AVR and ARM microcontrollers, single chip wireless microcontrollers, bundles, and full-featured Zigbit modules.

Atmel® Corporation announces the availability of the ZigBee RF4CE wireless evaluation kit designed for ZigBee PRO and ZigBee RF4CE application development and prototyping. Atmel is also launching the REB231ED-EK evaluation kit with antenna diversity support for the Atmel AT86RF231 device.

Atmel® Corporation today announced it is expanding the Atmel AVR® Xplained evaluation kits to support applications in the industrial, consumer, automotive and computing markets.

Capacitive touch application-specific microcontrollers for implementing touch Button, Slider and Wheel (BSW) functionality integrating Immersion's haptic intellectual property (IP) to create a more intuitive and powerful user experience

Atmel® Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch technology solutions, today announced that the Atmel maXTouch(TM) mXT224 controller has been selected to power the touchscreens for the Kyocera Echo dual-screen Android phone.

Atmel today announced that the Atmel maXTouch(TM) solution has been selected to power the touchscreen innovation behind the recently-announced 10.1-inch Android tablet from Acer. The new Acer ICONIA TAB A500 / A501 tablet provides a superb mobile and home entertainment experience, with a high-resolution capacitive multitouch display, capable of tracking 10 fingers simultaneously courtesy of Atmel's market-leading maXTouch solution. The slim 13.3 ...

Atmel® Corporation today announced the availability of the new set of highly-integrated system basis gate driver ICs. The Atmel ATA6843 and ATA6844 devices are new members of the company's extensive gate driver family designed for 3-phase brushless DC (BLDC) motor control applications including turbo chargers, waste gates, EGR, pumps, fans, power window, power doors and power seats. They feature six-output stages for direct motor control when co...

Atmel® Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch technology solutions, today announced that LG Electronics Mobile, one of the largest handset manufacturers in the world, has selected the Atmel maXTouch solution for its recently-launched G-Slate 8.9-inch Android tablet touchscreen.

This document describes how to verify the important GPS parameters of acquisition and tracking sensitivity.

Stephan Tahler of Atmel introduces the new 32-bit AVR UC3C microcontroller for Automotive applications.