Atmel's AVR ONE! High-End Development Tool Improves Performance and Provides Significant Development Cost Savings for 8- and 32-bit Microcontrollers

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Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), announced today its AVR(R)
ONE! high-end debugger for AVR(R) and AVR32 microcontrollers. Atmel
is committed to offer quality development tools at an affordable
price. One unique high-end on-chip debugging platform for all AVR and
AVR32 devices: this is AVR ONE! available at US$599 only while
similar tools usually cost thousands of dollars. The new debug tool
will help customers to speed up their design and get to the market
faster.

The AVR32 microcontrollers and processors are the first devices
to be supported by AVR ONE! and will be followed by most of the
tinyAVR(R), megaAVR(R) and XMEGA(TM) devices during 2008. AVR ONE!
customers will get free of charge upgrades as Atmel extends support
to all AVR devices.

The AVR ONE! speeds up programming and supports non-intrusive
observation and logging of how the embedded system performs. This
allows the software engineer a clear view of real time system
behavior, without affecting or modifying the real time
characteristics of the microcontroller.

High speed program and debug -- The new AVR ONE! is a high-end
JTAG and Nexus on-chip debugger that is designed to deliver accurate
monitoring of system behavior in embedded systems built around AVR
and AVR32 microcontrollers and application processors. Faster
communication between the PC and the target microcontroller speeds up
the flow of debug data, and the user will notice the improved
responsiveness to user input. Programming microcontrollers with large
on-chip flash memories will be up to 3 times faster than existing
debuggers.

Real time debugging -- The AVR ONE! offers advanced real-time
debugging features. In addition to basic programming and on-chip
debugging via the traditional 4-pin JTAG port, the AVR ONE! supports
debugging via the Nexus port, an 8-bit parallel port found on all
AVR32 devices. Inside the AVR32 microcontroller, the Nexus port is
connected by a separate data bus to all the on-chip peripherals and
memories. The separate bus allows the debugger to monitor and modify
system behavior in every part of the microcontroller without
interrupting or affecting the timing of the program running in the
microcontroller. The AVR ONE! can be connected live to a running
application without interference.

Real-time trace -- The AVR32 Nexus debug interface is connected
to the AVR32 CPU's trace port. This is a port which outputs vital
statistics about CPU behavior and the software running. This
real-time trace data is captured by the AVR ONE! debugger and
forwarded to the PC, where the user can reconstruct the steps taken
by the CPU leading up to an erroneous state from a 2 GB data buffer.
This marks a breakthrough in on-chip debugging, allowing for the
first time an on-chip trace port in a non-bondout version of all
AVR32 microcontrollers.

A complete line-up of debuggers -- The AVR ONE! expands Atmel's
line-up of on-chip debug adapters, which already consists of the very
popular JTAGICE mkII and the low cost AVR Dragon introduced last
year. Customers can now choose the tool that best fits their needs
and budgets.

AVR32 Studio v2.0 -- To support the new AVR ONE! on-chip
debugger, Atmel has released version 2.0 of its popular AVR32 Studio
project manager and debugger front-end. In addition to full support
for the new AVR ONE! on-chip debug adapter, the new version of AVR32
Studio has even better integration of the AVR32 Software Framework,
Atmel's large library of optimized device drivers, DSP math functions
and communication stacks. AVR32 Studio and AVR32 Software Framework
is available free of charge from Atmel's web site.

Availability and Pricing -- The new AVR ONE! is available now and
is priced at US$599.

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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and combinations thereof, AVR(R) , tinyAVR(R), megaAVR(R), AVR
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and product names may be trademarks of others.

Information:

Atmel's AVR ONE! information may be retrieved at:
http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/tools_card.asp?tool_id=4279.

For further information on AVR32 go to:
http://www.atmel.com/AVR32/

Press Contacts:
Philippe Faure, Marketing Communications Director - Microcontrollers
Tel: +33-2-40-18-18-87, Email: philippe.faure@atmel.com
Helen Perlegos, Public Relations
Tel: +1-408-487-2963, Email: hperlegos@atmel.com

Web site: http://www.atmel.com

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Contact:
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