Atmel and Industrial Software Technology Announce Java Support for AVR32 AP7 Application Processor Series

San Jose, California (ots/PRNewswire) -

- Industrial Software Technology to Provide Java Solutions to
Increase Development Productivity for AVR32 AP7 Series

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) and Industrial Software
Technology(TM) S.A. announced today the industry's most integrated
solutions to design Java applications for embedded systems. Based on
a cleanroom implementation of a Java(R) Virtual Machine called
MicroJvm(R), the first product of the MicroJvm family specifically
targeted for AVR(R)32 cores offers a bare-metal virtual machine with
a small memory footprint (65 Kbytes), a high speed engine (up to 3
times faster than common Java engines) and optimized software library
bundles.

The new generation of processors such as the AVR32 AP7 series of
application processors provide developers with more CPU performance
at very attractive prices. As source code grows in size and becomes
more complex, embedded developers are often looking for alternatives
to the traditional C/C++ to reach higher software quality and better
design productivity without sacrificing performance.

Fast execution and small memory footprint -- The MicroJvm
implements an off-device Java class loader and optimizer (SOAR) that
optimizes bytecodes to reduce the application memory footprint and to
dramatically improve its execution speed. Industrial Software
Technology provides Garbage Collector implementations using
state-of-the-art incremental and compacting collection algorithms to
allow fine control of collecting activities and to keep memory
compacted in order to accelerate data accesses and to reach realtime
operation. Overall, applications running on MicroJvm are less than
15% slower than their C implementation counterparts and the
application startup time is less than 50 ms when operating at 67 MHz.

Robust and reliable -- Java is a safe language unlike C/C++ and
subsets such as MISRA-C. The language is unambiguous, meaning result
will not differ from a compiler to another compiler. Similarly, the
Java Virtual Machine specification has not changed over the past
decade, providing the required functional stability. The rich
language semantic allows a large number of static checks and compiler
can detect many errors at compile-time. Remaining potential errors
such as outbound array accesses and stack overflows are detected at
run-time by the Java Virtual Machine that also provides a complete
support for exception management when actions from the application
are required at run-time.

High software design productivity -- Java language together with
the virtual machine concept typically increases software productivity
by a factor of five compared to C over the different phases of a
system design (coding, maintenance and support phases). Java true
object oriented capability offers a clear and easy-to-use
object-oriented framework. The language semantic is robust and
eliminates common programming mistakes and the virtual machine
offload designers from complex tasks such as memory allocation and
release. Java virtual machines also provide true hardware abstraction
levels and make binary applications portable across different
hardware implementations hence reducing maintenance costs. The true
Object Oriented Programming property of Java drastically improves
software scalability over time.

High performance AVR32 AP7 Series -- The AVR32 AP7 series of
application processors are an ideal target for Java technology
because they perfectly suit applications requiring high network
connectivity and smart graphical interfaces to design complex
man-machine interfaces. Based on Industrial Software Technology
MicroJvm virtual machines and a set of fully featured embedded
libraries, it is now possible to efficiently design Java applications
without sacrificing the high performance of the AVR32 AP7 core.

Development tools -- Industrial Software Technology provides
development tools for Eclipse(TM) to assist software designers to
write Java applications for embedded systems using the AVR32 AP7
series. The MicroEJ(TM) SDK is dedicated to Java application
developers and is available in different editions (Standard,
Professional and Enterprise). MicroEJ SDK provides the means to
optimize Java byte-code for the MicroJvm Virtual Machine, to
statically analyze and profile Java applications and to debug Java
programs on the Smart Software Simulator (S3) without embedded
hardware or directly on targets at Java source level using JDWP
Eclipse debugger.

MicroEJ SDK is available directly from Industrial Software
Technology. The license fee for MicroEJ SDK is an annual enterprise
level per-user fee including support and maintenance. The production
license for MicroJvm run-time requires a per-device shipment
agreement.

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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product names may be trademarks of others.

About Industrial Software Technology

Headquartered in Nantes, France, Industrial Software Technology
offers the most advanced Object Oriented Programming solutions to
reduce develop cost and to improve quality of applications for
embedded systems. Industrial Software Technology provides specific
solutions for each addressed market such as consumer, industrial,
security, communications, computing, automotive, military, avionics
and aerospace markets.

Information:

Atmel's AVR32 product information is available at
http://www.atmel.com/products/AVR32

Industrial Software Technology Java solutions for AVR32
information is available at
http://www.ist-eu.com/en/products-avr32.php

Atmel 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
Industrial Software Technology Press Contact:
Regis Latawiec, Sales Director
Tel: +33-2-40-18-04-96, Email: regis.latawiec@ist-eu.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; or Regis Latawiec, Sales Director of Industrial Software
Technology, +33-2-40-18-04-96, regis.latawiec@ist-eu.com