Atmel has announced the company’s BitCloud ZigBee PRO Software Development Kit (SDK) has achieved the prestigious Golden Unit status for the ZigBee PRO r21 standard. As an approved Golden Unit, the Atmel BitCloud solution will be used by ZigBee testhouses to verify standard compliancy for all future ZigBee 3.0 products. This guarantees superior interoperability for Atmel customers designing the latest connected lighting, security and comfor...

Atmel is collaborating with Intel to bring more secure IoT applications to market. Atmel will support Intel Enhanced Privacy ID (Intel EPID) technology on all Atmel SmartConnect wireless solutions to improve secure cloud provisioning - the mutual authentication of the IoT node with the cloud - in the rapidly growing IoT market where more devices are becoming smartly connected.

Expanding its family of secure, ARM Cortex M0+-based MCUs, Atmel has announced the SAM L22 series. These devices offer an ultra-low power capacitive touch with a segment LCD controller that can deliver up to 320 segments, making them suitable for low-power applications such as thermostats, electric/gas/water meters, home control, medical and access systems.

Hailed as the industry’s most innovative single-wire EEPROM with only two-pins (a data pin and ground pin for operation), the AT21CS01 family has been unveiled by Atmel. Suited for IoT, wearable, consumable, battery and cable identification applications, the devices are self-powered, eliminating the need for a power source or Vcc pin, with a parasitic power scheme over the data pin.

Atmel has announced that its shipping what it claimed to be the highest performing ARM Cortex-M based MCUs on the market, the Atmel | SMART SAM S70 and E70 series. With 50% higher performance than the closest competitor, larger configurable SRAM, larger embedded Flash and high-bandwidth peripherals, these devices offer the suitable mix of connectivity, memory and performance. The SAM S70 and E70 series allow customers to scale-up performance and ...

Atmel has launched the Atmel IoT Cloud Ecosystem Partner Program. The programme enables developers using Atmel | SMART MCUs and Atmel SmartConnect wireless solutions to access Atmel’s ecosystem cloud partners for device management, data analytics, and visualisation in order to experience an end-to-end IoT solution development ‘out of the box’.

Atmel has announced that it is powering the borderless nubia Z9 smartphone with its maXTouch T-series solution. The company’s proprietary single-layer pattern brings a true borderless and futuristic industrial design for tomorrow’s handsets. The maXTouch mXT336T delivers these features, along with advanced algorithms and Atmel’s adaptive sensing technology to enable virtual edge keys and sliders, delivering interaction all the w...

Atmel has announced that ASUS has selected its maXTouch controllers to power the touchscreen and active stylus pen of its recently launched 10.1” Z300 tablet. The 10.1” Z300 tablet is the world’s first on-cell touchscreen with capacitive active stylus pen support, enabling precise ‘pen-to-paper’ writing for more content generation on digital devices. On-cell displays enable thinner designs for next-gen mobile pr...

A wearable demonstration device, which combines low-power embedded processing, wireless, touch and sensor technologies, has been introduced by Atmel. Measuring 7x9cm, the Smart Badge brings together hardware and software technologies from Atmel and partners into an out-of-the-box solution that addresses the requirements of the wearable market.

  Controllers that enable 1.2 to 10.1” touchscreens to deliver high touch performance with a low power consumption have been introduced by Atmel. The devices, which expand the company’s maXTouch U series, leverage its proprietary picoPower technology.

The world’s first full 5V ARM Cortex-M0+-based MCU family with integrated Peripheral Touch Controller (PTC) has been introduced by Atmel. The SAM C family innovatively combines 5V, DMA performance and a PTC with outstanding moisture tolerance. The devices also integrate advanced analogue capability and offer EMI and ESD protection, making them suitable for the rapidly expanding smart appliance and industrial markets. 

Atmel and MXCHIP have announced the joint development of an ultra-low power IoT platform with secure Wi-Fi access to the cloud, enabling designers to quickly bring their IoT devices to market. This joint platform combines Atmel’s ultra-low power Atmel | SMART SAM G Cortex-M4-based MCUs and its SmartConnect WILC1000 WiFi solution with MXCHIP’s MiCO IoT OS, servicing a full range of smart device developers for IoT applications.

Atmel is the first to receive the PRIME (PoweRline Intelligent Metering Evolution) v1.4 Profile 2 certification for the Atmel | SMART SAM4CP16B and ATPL230A smart metering solutions. The certification ensures that customers are able to develop high performance solutions, incorporating new features of the PRIME v1.4 standard.

The industry’s lowest power ARM Cortex-M based MCUs, which consume 35µA/MHz in active mode and 200nA in sleep mode, are being sampled by Atmel. The SAM L21 MCUs , which expand the company’s SMART 32-bit ARM-based MCU portfolio, reduce the number of times batteries need to be changed in devices such as fire alarms, healthcare, medical, wearable, and devices placed in rural, agriculture, offshore and other remote areas. 

Atmel has announced an extension board for the company’s popular Xplained platform featuring a Bosch Sensortec BNO055 intelligent 9-axis absolute orientation sensor. The ATBNO055-XPRO extension board connects directly to Atmel’s Xplained board, making it suitable for IoT, wearables and gaming prototyping, personal health and fitness, indoor navigation and other applications requiring context awareness and augmented reality.

Atmel has launched its next-gen family of automotive-qualified ARM Cortex-M0+-based MCUs with an integrated peripheral touch controller for capacitive touch applications. The SAM DA1 is the first series in this automotive-qualified product family, operating at a maximum frequency of 48MHz and reaching 2.14Coremark/MHz.

Designed for the IoT market, the ATECC508A CryptoAuthentication IC has been released by Atmel. According to the company, the device is the first in the market to integrate the Elliptic Curve Diffie–Hellman (ECDH) security protocol and the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) sign-verify authentication. 

Designed to simplify the design process of aerospace applications, the ATMX150RHA mixed-signal ASIC platform has been released by Atmel. Manufactured on 150nm Silicon on Insulator, the platform expands the company’s portfolio of radiation-hardened (rad-hard) solutions. Delivering up to 22m routable gates, the ASIC platform features non-volatile memory blocks and a flexible form factor with compiled SRAM and DPRAM blocks. 

A wireless combo SoC, designed for the growing IoT and wearable markets, has been released by Atmel. The WILC3000 wireless link controller, which expands the company’s SmartConnect wireless portfolio, combines WiFi 802.11n and Bluetooth Smart-ready technologies with Atmel’s patented adaptive co-existence engine in a 4.1x4.1mm WLCSP. 

A low power Bluetooth Smart solution, which achieves sub-1µA in standby mode, has been released by Atmel. According to the company, the BTLC1000 delivers the industry’s best dynamic power consumption, increasing battery life by as much as one year for particular applications.