Atmel Announces its Second Generation ARM-based Microcontrollers with Integrated Flash Memory
Rousset, France, July 30, 2002... Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today it has added two high-density Flash memory options to its range of market-leading microcontrollers based on the 32-bit ARM7TDMIYTM RISC core. The newly-available AT91FR4042 and AT91FR40162 integrate respectively 512K bytes and 2M bytes Flash memory. The Flash memories feature a lockable boot block that enables critical startup software modules to be protected, and for the 2-Mbyte version a dual-plane architecture supporting read-while-write. In addition to the Flash, both devices integrate 256K bytes of single clock cycle 32-bit wide SRAM, providing a maximum of 74 MIPS in typical conditions.
The AT91FR4042 and AT91FR40162 complement the established AT91FR4081 and AT91F40816 highly integrated SRAM-plus-Flash microcontrollers in extremely small footprint packages. The AT91FR4042 and AT91FR40162 ship in a BGA121 10x10x1.2 mm outline, 0.8 mm ball pitch package. Both devices are pin compatible for ease of upgrade to higher memory densities.
Jacko Wilbrink, Atmel's Marketing Manager for ARM®-based microcontrollers commented, "Atmel is a leader in both 8- and 32-bit Flash microcontrollers, enabling us to cover a complete range of cost/performance points. We have design wins for our 32-bit ARM microcontrollers in leading-edge products such as GPS systems, storage devices, telecom networking, point-of-sale terminals and medical products. Our customer base is steadily increasing."
The AT91FR4042 and AT91FR40162 integrate a set of general purpose peripherals including two USARTS (Universal Synchronous/Asynchronous Receiver Transmitter) with dedicated DMA (Direct Access Memory) channels, three 16-bit timers with capture, compare and PWM (Pulse Width Modulation) modes, an External Bus Interface to communicate with external memory-mapped peripherals and a watchdog timer. Both products also feature a power management unit allowing peripheral and processors clocks to be stopped to minimize power consumption.
Atmel's business partners provide powerful software development tools including C-compilers, debuggers, sockets and Flash programmers. A complete evaluation kit for the AT91FR40162 and AT91FR4042, the AT91EB40A, is available for only $199.
Pricing for the AT91FR4042-CI in a 121-pin BGA package starts at $8.60 each in 100K unit volumes.
About Atmel
Founded in 1984, Atmel Corporation is headquartered in San Jose, California with manufacturing facilities in North America and Europe. Atmel designs, manufactures and markets worldwide, advanced logic, mixed-signal, nonvolatile memory and RF semiconductors. Atmel is also a leading provider of system-level integration semiconductor solutions using CMOS, BiCMOS, SiGe, and high- voltage BCDMOS process technologies.
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Information: Atmel's product information on the products mentioned in this release, go to the following sites:
AT91FR4042- http://www.atmel.com/atmel/acrobat/doc2648.pdf
AT91FR40162- http://www.atmel.com/atmel/acrobat/doc2632.pdf
AT91FR4081- http://www.atmel.com/atmel/acrobat/doc1386.pdf
AT91F40816- http://www.atmel.com/atmel/acrobat/doc2632.pdf
AT91EB40A- http://www.atmel.com/atmel/acrobat/doc2635.pdf
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