Atmel's AVR32 UC3 Microcontroller Named to EDN's Hot 100 Products of 2007

San Jose, California (ots/PRNewswire) -

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today its AVR(R)32
UC3 microcontrollers have been named by EDN magazine to the list of
products recognized in its annual Hot 100 Products issue at the end
of 2007. The AT32UC3 32-bit Flash microcontrollers feature DSP
instructions and have established new standards for computation
efficiency and an industry leader for low power consumption of 1.3 mW
per MHz for 32-bit microcontrollers.

EDN Editorial Director Maury Wright stated, "Our editorial team
covers new product introductions on a daily basis and we see a lot of
worthy products. We look back once a year and choose the
introductions that we believe will have the greatest significance to
the design engineer and create the Hot 100 list."

"We are honored to receive the recognition from the EDN's
technical editor's community," said Oyvind Strom, Atmel's Director of
AVR32 products. "We believe this highlights the various innovations
we bring with our AVR32 architecture that makes the UC3 family the
best-in-class 32-bit Flash microcontrollers."

The AVR32 UC3 delivers up to 83 Dhrystone MIPS (DMIPS) performance
at 66 MHz and provides a wide range of DSP instructions including a
single-cycle fractional Multiply & Accumulate with saturation and
rounding. With a direct interface between the SRAM and the CPU that
bypasses the system bus, a single-cycle read/write to SRAM is
guaranteed. In addition, a peripheral DMA controller and multi-layer
high speed bus architecture, makes UC3 core ideal for high throughput
applications. UC3 devices are perfectly suited for portable and
battery-based applications because of 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.

About Atmel

Atmel is a worldwide leader in the design and manufacture of
microcontrollers, 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.

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Information:

Product information on Atmel's AVR32 can be retrieved at
http://www.atmel.com/avr32.

Read about all the products in EDN's December 14, 2007 issue and
at http://www.edn.com.

Press Contacts:
Philippe Faure, Marketing Communications Director - Microcontrollers
Phone: +33-2-40-18-18-87, Email: philippe.faure@atmel.com
Helen Perlegos, Public Relations
Phone: +1-408-487-2963, Email: hperlegos@atmel.com
Web site: http://www.atmel.com
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Philippe Faure, Marketing Communications Director - Microcontrollers,
+33-2-40-18-18-87, philippe.faure@atmel.com, or Helen Perlegos,
Public Relations, +1-408-487-2963, hperlegos@atmel.com, both of Atmel
Corporation