Development Kit for Customizable ARM7-based MCUs

San Jose, California (ots/PRNewswire) -

- AT91CAP7X-DK Includes ARM7-based Microcontroller with 80K LC
FPGA

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) today announced its
AT91CAP7X-DK development kit for designers to develop, emulate, and
ultimately migrate ARM7(TM)-plus-FPGA designs to Atmel's CAP7
customizable microcontrollers.

Atmel's CAP7 customizable MCU is an ARM7-based microcontroller
with a metal-programmable (MP) block with 450K gates or the
equivalent of 56K FPGA logic cells (LC), as well as a USB 2.0 full
speed device, SPI master and slave, two USARTs, three 16-bit timer
counters, an 8-channel/ 10-bit analog to digital converter, plus
interrupt control and supervisory functions noted above. Any
functionality that has been implemented in an FPGA may be migrated
directly to a CAP7 device with no special EDA tools or customer-side
engineering.

Atmel's AT91CAP7X-DK development kit may be used to develop
ARM7-based MCUs with custom peripheral sets not available on standard
MCUs (e.g. 10 USARTs or 20 PWMs). Atmel owns or has access to
extensive libraries of well-documented peripherals that include TWI,
SPI master and slave, SSC, MCI, USARTS, Ethernet MAC, CAN, EBI,
full-speed USB host and device, image sensor interface, LCD and AC97
controllers, timer counters, analog to digital converters and
AES/TDES encryption/decryption engines. There is no extra charge for
including Atmel-owned peripherals on CAP(TM) devices. Customers may
also implement their own or 3rd party peripherals in the MP block.

The AT91CAP-DK motherboard has an extensive set of interface
devices, which are controlled by the device controllers embedded in
the AT91CAP7 customizable MCU.

The motherboard includes a 3.5" 1/4 VGA TFT Color LCD display, a
10/100 Ethernet PHY, USB 2.0 High-Speed Host and High-Speed Device
Ports, USB 2.0 Full-Speed Device ports (x3), an I2S Audio Device, ADC
inputs (x4), an AC97 Audio CODEC, SD / MMC Card Slots (x2), a USART
Serial Communication Device, a CAN Interface Device, a TWI Serial
EEPROM Device, an image sensor device connector, a 16 Button Keypad,
a PCI64 Slot, GPIO expansion slots (x4), software controlled power
indication and general-purpose LED's.

The CAP7 specific daughter board includes the AT91CAP7S MCU and a
high density FPGA with 80K logic cells, capable of interfacing custom
logic directly to the AT91CAP7S AMBA architecture. The daughter card
plugs directly onto the motherboard for not only software and
hardware development, but also connection to real world applications
for prototyping and end product evaluation. A memory expansion board
includes 64Mbytes of SDRAM, 8Mbytes of NOR Flash and 256Mbytes of
NAND Flash.

Uses Existing Third-party Tools. The same C-compilers, RTOS, OSs,
ICEs and IDEs used with Atmel's AT91SAM ARM-based MCUs can be used
with the CAP. FPGA design may be done using any FPGA design software,
including third party tools.

Availability and Pricing. Atmel's AT91CAP7X-DK development kit is
available now and priced at US$3,500. Atmel charges a one-time fee of
US$150,000 for design, mask fees, and prototypes of the customized
ARM7-based MCUs. Production unit prices are US$5.44 in quantities of
50,000 for the AT91CAP7S250 device.

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:

Atmel's AT91CAP product information may be retrieved at:
http://www.atmel.com/products/AT91CAP

Press Contacts:
Barbara Bailey, Marketing Communications Manager - USA
Tel: +1-719-540-1895, Email: barbara.bailey@atmel.com
Helen Perlegos, Public Relations, US and Asia
Tel: +1-408-487-2963, Email: hperlegos@atmel.com

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Contact:
Barbara Bailey, Marketing Communications Manager - USA,
+1-719-540-1895, barbara.bailey@atmel.com, or Helen Perlegos, Public
Relations, US and Asia, +1-408-487-2963, hperlegos@atmel.com, both of
Atmel Corporation