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Atmel Introduces World's Smallest Flash Microcontroller Package
	SAN JOSE, Calif., May 14 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch solutions, today announced production availability for the world's smallest flash AVR® microcontroller package. The Atmel ATtiny4, ATtiny5, ATtiny9 and ATtiny10 AVR microcontroller (MCU) come in an ultra-small 8-pad UDFN package, with a dimension of only 2mm x 2mm x 0.6mm, and weighing less than 8 mg to reduce the package size as much as 55 percent compared to the market's smallest package offering available today. These products target applications in the consumer electronics, lighting, and industrial control markets. The new devices are well suited for lightweight and small form factor consumer applications, such as cell phones, toys, tooth brushes and other personal care and portable electronic products. The smaller, lighter, faster and low-power microcontrollers from the Atmel ATtiny4/5/9/10 family also make it possible to integrate a powerful AVR MCU in some of the smallest designs. These designs may include the inside of electrical leads and miniature connectors, printer heads, and other applications such as inside clothing fabrics, plastic cover sheets or shells. "This new package offering will strengthen Atmel's leadership in the microcontroller market," said Ingar Fredriksen, AVR Product Marketing Director. "In addition to being 55 percent smaller than any other 6-/8-pin Flash microcontroller in the market, the ATtiny4, ATtiny5, ATtiny9 and ATtiny10 devices deliver six times higher processing speed than the closest competitor." This family is based on Atmel's patented low-power picoPower® technology which enables any AVR microcontroller to operate at the industry's lowest power consumption at 650 nA, with a RTC running, and less than 100 nA in power down. These products also contain a rich feature set to execute code up to 12 MIPS at 12 MHz. Availability, Pricing and Photo The Atmel ATtiny4, ATtiny5, ATtiny9 and ATtiny10 are available now. Volume pricing start at $0.52 USD for 10k quantities. To download a high-resolution photo of these devices in the SOT23 and 8-UDFN packages, please click the following link: http://www.atmel.com/pressroom/photos/ATtiny.jpg

Introducing the new Dino-Lite Basic AM2011
	AnMo Electronics is proud to introduce the Dino-Lite Basic AM2011 that is great for classroom or home us and those who wants to start exploring the world closer than you can ever see with just the naked eye. To learn more.

Compact Antenna Now Available With SMA Connector
	Antenna Factor is pleased to announce its HW Series 1/2-wave center-fed dipole antennas and 1/4-wave monopole antennas are now available with standard SMA connector terminations. HW Series antennas are ideal for applications requiring a compact, low-cost antenna solution. To learn more.

Low Cost AVR XMEGA Evaluation Kit Available Now
	Xplain is a low-cost evaluation kit for Atmel AVR XMEGA. Based around an ATxmega128A1 microcontroller, it offers a complete platform for evaluating the XMEGA feature set. To learn more.

Linx Introduces GPS Modules , Quickly and cost-effectively
	Linx embeddable GPS modules allow you to offer your customers a complete, high performance GPS receiver solutions. Housed in a compact reflow and ROHS compatible SMD package, the series is very simple to implement and well documented. To learn more.

Atmel's 6-channel touch controller with integral LED driver adds reliability and cuts component count
Guard channel feature and low voltage operation makes device ideal for portable products Southampton, UK, September 15, 2008KAtmelR Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), announced today the AT42QT1060, a touch control chip that integrates 6 channels of touch sensing with the ability to drive up to 7 low current LEDs directly through a pulse width modulated (PWM) output function. The device operates from 5.5VDC down to 1.8VDC and consumes less than 1uA in standby mode to give long battery life; it comes in a tiny 4mm x 4mm MLF28 package, making it ideal for use in mobile phones and other handheld devices. The AT42QT1060 is the latest addition to Atmel's comprehensive range of capacitive touch controllers based on Quantum Research Group's charge-transfer technology. These include QTouch™ and QMatrix™ based controllers for single and multiple touch buttons, touch sliders and touch wheels. The AT42QT1060 is designed for use in portable electronics products. An inbuilt capacitive guard channel feature helps prevent false triggering, for example, where moisture is an issue. This feature also prevents against erroneous commands that can occur when devices such as MP3 players are carried in a pocket, or in the case of a cellular phone, when it is held against the ear. The highly integrated AT42QT1060 reduces component count, cutting design complexity and cost, and enabling faster product development. The sensor chip is based on Quantum's patented QTouch™ charge-transfer sensing method. This robust technology uses spread-spectrum modulation to achieve high immunity to electrical noise and a patented technique - Adjacent Key Suppression™ (AKS™) - ensures that only the intended key is activated by the touch of a finger. The guard channel feature uses AKSTM to eliminate false triggering of nearby keys. Long-term reliability is ensured because the device automatically re-calibrates on power-up, compensating for build-up of moisture or other contaminants on the touch surface. Individual key sensitivity is host-selectable. A host wake up function allows the host to sleep and be woken up when a user triggers the corresponding input, providing another power-saving feature. Additional GPIO expansion can be achieved by the use of spare IC pins. The AT42QT1060 functions through any insulating panel including glass or plastic up to 3mm thick. Electrodes can be made from copper, silver, carbon, indium tin oxide (ITO) or Orgacon conductive ink and must be 6 x 6mm or larger. Widely different electrode sizes and shapes are possible, giving the product designer great flexibility in tailoring the user interface.

Atmel Launches $399 Starter Kit for ARM7-based Customizable Microcontrollers
Facilitates Low-cost, Easy Evaluation of CAP Capabilities San Jose, CA, September 2, 2008KAtmelR Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), today announced its AT91CAP7A-STK Starter Kit for the evaluation of its ARM7™-based CAP™ family of customizable microcontrollers. CAP7 customizable MCUs allow designers to migrate ARM7-plus-FPGA designs to a low-NRE, single-chip solution with approximately 30% lower unit costs, with eight times better performance, 98% less static power consumption, and 70% less active power consumption. The $399 CAP7 Starter Kit includes a printed circuit board with Atmel's ARM7-based AT91CAP7E microcontroller, Altera® Cyclone®II EP2C8F256C7N FPGA with EPCS4SI8N serial configuration memory, 2.8" TFT LCD panel, joystick, 64M Bytes of SDRAM application memory, 10-bit analog to digital converter (ADC), 256M Bytes of NAND flash and a 4MB DataFlash®. External interfaces include USB full-speed device, four analog inputs, external bus interface (EBI), USART, SPI, and Debug UART. The board also supports sensing applications with light and temperature sensors and potentiometers. The on-board Cyclone II FPGA contains 8,256 four-input Lookup Table (LUTs) logic elements equivalent to 66,048 CAP7 MP block gates V about one seventh the total available logic on a CAP7 device. It can be used to map and emulate application-specific IP blocks, in the CAP7s embedded Metal Programmable (MP) block, along with the system software. The AT91CAP7E executes at clock speeds up to 80 MHz and can send to or receive data from the FPGA at this speed over the EBI. The AT91CAP7E can also interface the FPGA via peripheral IO (PIO). The CAP7 starter kit allows designers to determine how the software, MCU and new IP will play together in a customizable MCU, without incurring any NRE charges or spending thousands of dollars for a full development board. Designers can accurately gauge the superior power consumption and performance characteristics of the CAP7 device, evaluate the ADC resolution, and experiment with the peripherals on the device. Smaller designs can be emulated and evaluated on the AT91CAP7A-STK. However for development of a customized CAP7 device, the fully featured AT91CAP7-DK is recommended to allow customers to take full advantage of the CAP7's multi-layer high-speed bus (AHB) and peripheral DMA. There are 32 general-purpose I/O connections on the AT91CAP7E, and 75 I/Os on the FPGA to support application-specific external interfaces. Debug is facilitated by the provision of an ICE-JTAG interface for CAP7 JTAG programming, and a USB-Blaster-JTAG interface for Cyclone II JTAG programming. Jay Johnson, Atmel's Marketing Director for ASIC Products, commented, "Development boards with an ARM7 and FPGA usually cost thousands of dollars. The $399 CAP7 starter kit is the first ARM7-plus FPGA kit to provide a low cost alternative for evaluating these designs and for validating the CAP7 concept, without any NRE charges or risk. This kit can be used by anyone from a developer in a tier-one electronics company to the smallest startup to find out how easy it is to customize an ARM-based MCU for a specific application. It is also the ideal vehicle for students of electronics engineering to consolidate their knowledge of system-on-chip hardware and software design."

Atmel Introduces picoPower tinyAVR Microcontrollers for Battery-based and Cost-sensitive Applications
Atmel announced two new low power 32-pin tinyAVRR microcontrollers, the ATtiny48 and ATtiny88 devices which have 4- and 8-Kbytes of Flash memory, respectively. These AVRR microcontrollers consume less than 240 uA at 1.8V and 1 MHz, and below 100 nA in power-down mode and are especially suited for portable and power sensitive systems such as remote control, accessories and small appliances. The new tinyAVR microcontrollers utilize Atmel's industry leading picoPower™ technology that eliminates unnecessary power consumption. They have a zero power brown-out detection circuitry that can be turned off during sleep modes, a power reduction register that powers down individual peripherals, and digital input disable registers that remove leakage current on ADC input pins. The ATtiny48/88 operates from 1.8 to 5.5 volts and features a 10-bit ADC, SPI, I2C interface, internal temperature sensor, and have up to 12 MIPS throughput at 12 MHz. Like all the other AVR microcontrollers, the ATtiny48/88 features an on-chip debug system for easy, fast, and robust development. "Atmel's successful picoPower megaAVRR devices offer the best-in-class power saving features and performance. The ATtiny48/88 is now extending the reach, offering an affordable solution for applications that require very low power consumption and are very cost sensitive. Our customers in the consumer electronics market want to develop products that consume less and less power, and the new ATtiny48/88 are a perfect fit," said Jukka Eskelinen, Director of tinyAVR Product Marketing. All tinyAVR microcontrollers use the standard AVR microcontroller development tools. The AVR StudioR AVR integrated development environment is available free of charge on Atmel's web site. Samples for the ATtiny48 are available now, the ATtiny88 will be available in 3Q2008 in the following packages QFN32, QFN28, TQFP32 and PDIP28 Information Atmel's AVR product information is available at http://www.atmel.com/products/AVR

Atmel Introduces an AVR-based 2.4 GHz Wireless Evaluation and Development Platform at $99 Wednesday February 27, 8:00 am ET
	The kit allows an easy evaluation of short range wireless connectivity with IEEE802.15.4, ZigBee, 6LoWPAN, etc. SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AtmelR Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML - News) announced today the availability of the AVRR RZ Raven evaluation kit that provides designers a unique ready-to-use development platform in the rapidly growing low power wireless market for the 2.4GHz ISM frequency band available worldwide. The kit utilizes the AVR picoPower(TM) technology in combination with the superior RF performance offered by the AT86RF230 2.4 GHz ISM transceiver. The RZ Raven kit comprises two Raven boards, one USB Stick and a selection of firmware application and software that will dramatically reduce time to market for designers considering short range wireless ISM band applications based on IEEE802.15.4(TM), ZigBeeR or 6LoWPAN. The Raven board can be used as a multi application wireless node with a LCD graphical user interface. It has two AVR picoPower microcontrollers: an ATmega1284P that can be used to control RF application stacks, and an ATmega3290P that controls the display and user interfaces. The Raven contains a custom LCD display, a 5 position joystick, a microphone and a speaker allowing the evaluation of a variety of user interactions that are appropriate in the target wireless applications. To support application development the following functionalities are available: graphical user interface, communication ports, ATmega1284P port pins available on headers, on-board temperature sensor, voltage sensor, relay driver, boot loader and ISP support for programming. The USB stick can serve as a PC gateway to the wireless network, or as the hardware platform for wireless protocol analyzer. It is based on the AT90USB1287 AVR microcontroller and the AT86RF230 transceiver. The firmware provided includes low level drivers and application stacks enabling simple point to point communication, IEEE 802.15.4 compliant solutions, and more complex applications based on ZigBee and 6LoWPAN. Updated source code, libraries and documentation for the applications are available from the Atmel web site. PC software is also provided, including a demo and a management suite for setup, configuration and management of wireless networks. Key features include wireless protocol analyzer and Over-The-Air upgrade (OTA). "Customers selecting the AVR Wireless platform get a flexible solution with a wide selection of microcontrollers tailored for any wireless application," said Magnus Pedersen, Director of AVR Product Marketing. "Combining the superior RF performance and the extremely low power consumption of picoPower technology, Atmel provides an ideal platform for the rapidly growing market of low power wireless devices demanding years of life on a single battery." The AT86RF230 offers industry best RF performance with a link budget of 104 dB and gives up to 3 times the range of competitor radios. This results in an outdoor range of up to 700 m with the high gain PCB antenna used on the Raven board. Current consumption in active mode is only 15 mA and down to 20 nA in sleep mode. AVR picoPower devices consume as little as 340 uA in active mode at 1.8V running from the internal RC oscillator at 1 MHz. In power-save mode it is 500 nA with a real time counter running, and 100 nA in power-down mode. picoPower AVRs are pin-, performance-, and code-compatible with existing AVR microcontrollers giving designers flexible hardware options for small, medium sized and complex wireless networks. The Raven board and the USB Stick holds FCC and ETSI certification. For technical info, please visit http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/tools_card.asp?tool_id=4291

Another Breakthrough from Antenna Factor
	Antenna Factor is pleased to announce the addition of two new frequencies to its RAH Series antenna line. The previously available frequencies of 315, 433MHz and 2.45GHz are now joined by 868MHz and 916 MHz versions. These compact right-angle antennas are ideals for product requiring a compact, aesthetically-pleasing antenna in a right-angle form factor. The quarter-wave antenna utilize a precision helical element to dramatically reduce the over antenna size ( < 1.9 ). Despite their diminutive size, the antenna's durable housing resists impact and abuse. The antennas attach via an FCC-compliant right gold-plated RP-SMA connector, though other connection styles are available by special order for volume OEMs. This style also available in a straight version known as the RH series. All frequencies are immediately available in volume quantities.

Linx - Innovative IC Enables Bi-Directional Remote Control
	MT SeriesTranscoder Innovative IC Enables Bi-Directional Remote Control The revolutionary MT Series Transcoder IC provides unprecedented features for bi-directional remote control and command applications. In the past, encoder and decoder ICs were commonly used to allow the status of inputs, such as switch or button closures, to be sent in one direction across a wireless link. While the MT can perform these basic uni-directional functions with ease, it also allows the bi-directional exchange of information and reception confirmation. When combined with external feedback, the Transcoder can also verify that specified actions have actually taken place. For example, a remote valve might confirm it has fully closed, a nurse call system could indicate help is on the way, or an automobile security system would confirm it had armed and in the event of a break-in alert the owner via their systems keyfob. The MT is even capable of sending variable data such as time, temperature, pressure, or text along with control information. The transcoder provides eight lines which can be configured as inputs or outputs and individually set for latched or momentary operation. Recognition of the individual outputs can be easily defined for each device by the manufacturer or end user. This allows the creation of user groups, relationships, and permissions. A large twenty-four bit address size makes transmissions highly unique, minimizing the possibility of conflict between multiple devices. An automatic confirmation indicates that the transmission was successfully received. The MT also outputs the ID of the originating transcoder for logging or identification. In addition to these powerful features, a Serial Interface Engine (SIE) allows the transcoder to be configured and controlled from an external microcontroller or PC. Permissions and users can be configured, modes and functions set and external data added to the transmission stream. A targeting feature allows commands to be directed to specific devices. The MT is housed in a tiny 20-pin SSOP package, and features low supply voltage, current consumption, and selectable baud rates. Its basic feature set is also compatible with Linx MS Series encoder and decoder ICs. MT Transcoder ICs will be available Q1 2008.

Zetex - High performance transistors set new performance standards in portable applications
	Zetex Semiconductors has added a pair of low voltage PNP transistors to its low saturation high current SOT23FF transistor range. With the footprint of the standard SOT23 package but with a reduced off board height of less than 1mm, the ZXTP25020CFF and ZXTP19020DFF will suit a range of slimline portable product designs. Helping to reduce component counts and increase power density, the devices serve as cost effective switchers in a variety of portable applications, including linear charging and high side load switching circuits. By guaranteeing a reverse blocking capability of 7 volts, the ZXTP25020CFF removes the need for a series connected Schottky diode in linear chargers. This saves up to 50% PCB area compared with similar footprint P-channel MOSFETs, which due to their inherent drain-source body diode, require a series Schottky diode. The SOT23FF package offers an improved thermal resistance of 158oC/W giving a power rating of 0.8W from a 15mm x 15mm PCB area, thereby substantially increasing power density when compared to standard SOT23 solutions. Power dissipation can rise to 1.96W for applications where the equivalent PCB space of 50 x 50mm is available. In high side switching and load or disconnect switches, the ZXTP19020DFF reduces the voltage drop to just 70mV at 1A and a base drive of 20mA or 140mV at 2A for a 40mA base drive, which can be equated to an equivalent resistance of 70mΩ- in a PCB footprint of 2.5mm x 3mm.

Linx - Tiny Antenna Delivers High Performance In An Unobtrusive Package
	Antenna Factor's new WRT Series antenna is ideally suited for applications such as wireless vending, security, traffic, or power equipment, which require an unobtrusive, tamper-resistant antenna solution. The tiny 19 x 11mm radome installs through a small hole on the product and is anchored by a threaded base. An adhesive foam compression ring is used to resist the elements. The antenna also features an integral counterpoise, which eliminates the need for a proximity ground plane. WRT Series antennas provide favorable performance characteristics and are available in center frequencies of 868MHz, 916MHz and 2.45GHz. The antenna's coax feed is available with SMA or RP-SMA terminations. Alternate connectors and custom colors are available for volume OEM customers LT Series transceivers operate in the favorable 260 to 470MHz band and are designed for full regulatory compliance and interference immunity, ideally suiting them to domestic as well as export wireless applications. The modules operate over a 2.1 to 3.6VDC range and feature very low power consumption (7.6mA TX, 6.1mA RX, 11.5gA sleep), a wide operational temperature range (-40X to + 85Xc) , adjustable transmitter power with up to +10dBm output, and a typical receiver sensitivity in excess of -112dBm. To learn more.

Enfis Architectural Lighting
With High Brightness LED technology advancing rapidly, Enfis high power LED Light Engines provide a key enabling solution for lighting products.

MORNSUN Latest product WRA LS-3W
MORNSUN WRA_LS-3W is a series has been specially designed for distributed power system applications, where a dual output is needed and that the output has to be isolated from input source.

Zetex V ZXCT1050Monitor provides accurate short circuit current measurement
A wide common mode input voltage range, from ground to within 2V of the supply voltage, ensures that the ZXCT1050 current monitor from Zetex Semiconductors will continue to provide accurate current measurement even if the load is short circuited.