Atmel Launches 2 Million Gate Development Kit for the AT91CAP9H Customizable Microcontroller

Rousset, France (ots/PRNewswire) -

- Enables Design Development for Upcoming AT91CAP9H with 2
Million Gates of Customizable Logic

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today the launch of
the AT91CAP9HA-DK Development Kit for its upcoming
ARM926EJ-S(TM)-based AT91CAP9H customizable microcontroller that
features 2 million gates of customizable logic. The AT91CAP9HA-DK
enables customers to start developing designs now, in anticipation of
the availability of the AT91CAP9H. Its comprehensive set of memories,
user interfaces and external connections, in addition to a standard
AT91CAP9 device for the fixed microcontroller architecture and the
FPGA for custom logic, enables the kit to be rapidly configured to
emulate the application under development, saving time, reducing cost
and enabling the design to be fully debugged before committing it to
metal programmed silicon. A lower-cost alternative is available with
an FPGA capacity of 1.5 million gates.

The AT91CAP9HA-DK consists of three boards: a Motherboard, a
Mezzanine Board and a Memory Extension Board. The Motherboard hosts
the power supplies, EEPROM program memory, keypad, VGA screen with
touch sensing, debug interface and external connections for USB,
Ethernet, CAN, SD/MMC cards, image sensor, analog inputs, I2S and
AC97 audio codecs, as well as PIO expansion and FPGA I/O connectors
for interfacing to application-specific boards. The Mezzanine Board
hosts the AT91CAP9 processor that provides the fixed portion of the
CAP(TM) architecture. Its external bus interface (EBI) is carried to
an external connector. The Mezzanine Board offers two FPGA options:
an Altera(R) Stratix(R) III EP3SL200 that provides 198900 4-input
lookup tables, the equivalent of 1.5 million gates in the CAP Metal
Programmable Block, or an EP3SL340 with 338000 LUTs, equivalent to 2
million gates. The Memory Extension Board is available in 1.8V and
3.3V variants. The 1.8V option hosts Burst Cellular RAM, NAND Flash,
Mobile DDR SDRAM and a service TWI EEPROM; the 3.3V option hosts
SDRAM, NAND Flash, NOR Flash and a service TWI EEPROM.

Michel Le Lan, Atmel's Marketing Director for ASICs, commented,
"The AT91CAP9HA Development Kit responds to the need expressed by
numerous clients for more customizable logic in the CAP architecture.
In particular, the 2 million gates in the CAP9H will be more than
adequate for advanced video compression capabilities in addition to
the customers' application-specific logic. We are making the
development kit available now, in advance of the release of the CAP9H
device, so that customers can start developing their applications on
an FPGA, to be ready for the availability of the metal-programmable
device."

Availability and Pricing

The AT91CAP9HA-DK Development Kit is available now. The
AT91CAP9HA15-DK (1.5 million gates) option is priced at US$4000; the
AT91CAP9HA20-DK (2 million gates) alternative is priced at US$4700.

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 AT91CAP9HA-DK product information may be retrieved at
http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/tools_card.asp?tool_id=4512

For further information on the CAP product family, visit
http://www.atmel.com/products/at91cap/default.asp

Press Contacts:
Peter Bishop, Communications Manager, Atmel Rousset
Tel: +33(0)4-42-53-61-50, Email: peter.bishop@atmel.com
Helen Perlegos, Public Relations
Tel: +1-408-487-2963, Email: helen.perlegos@atmel.com

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Contact:
Peter Bishop, Communications Manager of Atmel Rousset,
+33(0)4-42-53-61-50, peter.bishop@atmel.com; or Helen Perlegos,
Public Relations, +1-408-487-2963, helen.perlegos@atmel.com