Atmel's 32-bit Flash Microcontrollers Won 2008 Embedded Award

(Product News, 24 Mar 2008)

Atmel Corp.'s AT32UC3 32-bit Flash microcontrollers have won the 2008 Embedded Award at the recent Embedded World exhibition and conference in Nuremberg, Germany.

The AT32UC3 microcontrollers, elected in the hardware category of the award, are based on the AVR32 architecture. Featuring DSP instructions, the AVR32 UC3 microcontrollers have established new standards for computation efficiency and have become an industry leader for low power consumption with 1.3mW per MHz for 32-bit microcontrollers.

"We are honored to receive this award from the independent jury at the Embedded World, the most attended event in the embedded industry," says Haakon Skar, Atmel's AVR32 Marketing Director. "This recognition highlights the outstanding value of the innovation that Atmel brings to the embedded market with its AVR32 architecture."

The AVR32 UC3 CPU is said to be the first 32-bit microprocessor in the industry to integrate single-cycle read/write SRAM with a direct interface to the pipeline that bypasses the system bus to achieve faster execution, better deterministic behavior and lower power consumption. The microcontroller can deliver up to 1.38 Dhrystone MIPS/MHz, running from on-chip flash memory. The AVR32 UC3 includes advanced features such as DSP arithmetic, single-cycle multiply and accumulate instructions and atomic bit or word read-modify-write instructions. The key benefits are high computational throughput, deterministic and real-time control, low power, low system cost, high reliability and ease of use. In addition, a peripheral DMA controller and multilayer high speed bus architecture, makes UC3 core ideal for high throughput applications. UC3 devices are perfectly suited for portable and battery-based applications thanks to its outstanding performance/power consumption ratio up to 1.08 DMIPS per mW.

AT32UC3 microcontrollers rich feature set includes up to 512kB Flash, up to 64kB SRAM, Ethernet MAC, Full Speed USB with OTG, 10-bit ADC, SPIs, SSC, two-wire interface (I2C compatible), UARTs, general purpose timers, thirteen pulse width modulators and a full set of supervisory functions.

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