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Atmel Corporation is a worldwide leader in the design and manufacture of microcontroller, capacitive touch solutions, advanced logic, mixed-signal, nonvolatile memory and radio frequency (RF) components.

Leveraging one of the industry's broadest intellectual property (IP) technology portfolios, Atmel is able to provide the electronics industry with complete system solutions focused on consumer, industrial, security, communications, computing and automotive markets.

Atmel’s AVR Solutions

AVR combines the most code-efficient architecture for C and assembly programming with the ability to tune system parameters throughout the entire life cycle of your key products. No other microcontrollers deliver more computing performance at a lower power consumption.

Combined with industry leading development tools and design support, you get to market faster. And once there, you can easily and cost-effectively refine and improve your product offering.

It’s simple: AVR works across the entire range of applications you’re working on, or want to work on.

32-bit AVR UC3

The 32-bit AVR UC3 microcontrollers deliver high computational through­put, deterministic real-time control, low power consumption, low system cost, high reliability and ease of use.

The 32-bit AVR CPU includes cutting-edge features such as integer and fixed point DSP arithmetic, single-cycle multiply and accumulate instructions, and single-cycle SRAM access. The peripheral DMA controller and multi-layer high-speed bus architecture make the UC3 core ideal for high throughput ap­plications.

UC3 devices are perfectly suited for portable and battery-powered applications due to their outstanding low power properties.

8/16-bit AVR XMEGA

The AVR XMEGA delivers 16-bit performance and leading low-power features at an 8-bit price point. With a DMA controller, an innovative Event System, crypto engine, and high-speed ADC and DAC, AVR XMEGA pushes the boundaries for high-performance 8/16-bit MCUs.

8-bit megaAVR

The megaAVR family offers the broadest selection of devices and peripheral options, making them suitable for a wide range of applications. The family contains devices with LCD, USB, CAN, and LIN interfaces, in addition to the standard SPI, UART and I2C interface.

Developed for applications that need large amount of program code, megaAVR offers substantial program and data memories. Better still, megaAVR features self-programming flash for fast, secure, cost-effective field upgrades.

8-bit tinyAVR

tinyAVR devices are optimized for a wide range of applications that require a small but power­ful microcontroller. They are perfect for size constrained applications and they are often found as glue logic in bigger systems. boards and is available with integrated A/D converter and EEPROM memory.

By delivering Flash flexibility at Mask ROM prices, tinyAVR significantly cuts your time to mar­ket, while boosting your bottom line. And there’s nothing tiny about that.

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AT91SAM ARM-based MCUs and eMPUs

Atmel AT91SAM 32-bit ARM® Flash MCUs and embedded MPUs are designed for system control, wired and wireless connectivity, user interface management, low power and ease of use. They have received wide acceptance in markets like POS terminals, security, building automation, industrial control, medical, white goods, PC and gaming peripherals, toys and cellular phone accessories.

“BCD’s support to us, particularly in sampling and pricing of Atmel AVR’s over several lighting projects, has been key to important business wins.”
Senior Design Engineer at Juice Technology

MCU Wireless

Atmel offers complete IEEE 802.15.4-compliant, IPv6/6LoWPAN based, ZigBee certified wireless solutions based on a family of RF transceivers, AVR, AVR32, and ARM microcontrollers, free software stacks, reference designs, wireless modules and development kits, addressing the unique needs of low-cost, low-power, low data rate wireless control and sensor network applications.

8051 Microcontrollers

Atmel offers a broad range of microcontrollers based on the 8051 architecture ranging in code density from 2K bytes to 128K bytes. The product line includes 8-bit microcontrollers based on the powerful, low-power Single-Cycle AT89LP core as well as MCS-51® industry standard socket drop-in devices and small footprint 14/16/20/28-pin derivatives, all manufactured in advanced Flash technologies.

AT91CAP Microcontrollers

Atmel's CAP™ is a microcontroller-based system-on-chip platform with fast local memory, a wide range of industry-standard peripherals and interfaces, and a Metal Programmable (MP) Block that allows the designer to add custom logic. By combining the performance, density and low power consumption of the fixed portion of the device with the flexibility of the MP Block, CAP enables application-specific products to be developed in a fraction of the time and at a fraction of the cost of standard cell ASICs, but at a unit price close to that of standard cell devices.

Capacitive Touch Products

Atmel is the world leader in touch technology solutions. With 15 years of touch interface product innovation, Atmel offers the industry's lowest power, highest performance single-chip touch solutions for highly integrated, small footprint designs while being the best in precision and signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) performance.

Flash Memory for all applications

Atmel's Serial Flash is the world's number one selling serial interface Flash family, and has been ever since its introduction almost a decade ago – and now the best is even better.
Pin count is precious when it comes to system design and that's why Atmel's serial-interface family of memory solutions matters. Its simple SPI interface greatly reduces system pin counts, while allowing for an easy migration path between densities without requiring board changes, dramatically reducing system costs, size, switching noise and manufacturing complexity.

BCD are very proud to be representing Atmel in the UK and Ireland and can offer full technical design support through to delivery anywhere in the world, whether it be direct from Atmel or through MSC, their key Distribution Partner .

Probably the world’s number one 8-bit Risc Microcontroller, the AVR dominates the industry in performance, lowest “pico” power, range of options and peripherals, code efficiency and the superb compiler and tools support.

The range includes the smallest 8-pin “Tiny AVR” through to the powerful MEGA AVR Range and now the ever expanding AVR32 bit family.

All products share the same basic instruction set and migration up or down the range is incredibly easy, and helps future proof your product roadmap.

To compliment these products, Atmel continues to grow its ARM and C51 based processor and controller families.

With the acquisition of Quantum, Atmel are now building on their Capacitive Touch products into the AVR product range to give customers greater user interface options from simple button and slider controls to more complex matrix and proximity sensing applications.

Together with their Flash Memory, RF and ASIC technology, Atmel are a semiconductor brand to be reckoned with.

BCD is partnering with TouchNetix to help customers who require additional support to bring their touchscreen designs into production.

TouchNetix are a group of highly experienced Engineers originally from Quantum/Atmel, pioneers of Capacitive Touch technology.

The TouchNetix flexible business model means they can offer full Design Support from concept through to full production.

For more information please call BCD on 01256 818111, email us by pressing here or fill in our Contact Form.

Tap. Drag. Zoom. Pan. Rotate. Flip. Innovate.

Atmel® touch technologies give human interfaces that uniquely personal feel that sparks success in the marketplace.

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Atmel’s touch technology for touchscreens and for fixed function buttons, sliders and wheels, allows users to experience unparalleled performance and sensitivity, without draining batteries.

Designers can take full advantage of advanced features such as Atmel maXTouch™ unlimited touch capability and support for large screens - all implemented in a small package requiring a minimum of external components.

Building on fifteen years of Atmel® touch innovation, maXTouch™ is the next-generation technology for touchscreen applications, delivering both superior performance and low power consumption.

The controller technology enables touch interfaces that identify, qualify, and track the user’s contacts with exceptional precision and sensitivity.

With maXTouch unlimited touch, users can enjoy a sophisticated interface that is smart enough to ignore unintended touches. Atmel touchscreen chips are small enough to fit the most compact mobile devices and powerful enough to accommodate the larger screens on products such as digital tablets.

The result: peerless touch interfaces that are intuitive, flexible, reliable, and battery-friendly.

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