Atmel and IS2T Announce Java Support for AVR32 UC3 Flash Microcontrollers

San Jose, California (ots/PRNewswire) -

- IS2T to Provide Java Solutions to Increase Development
Productivity for AVR32 UC3 Microcontrollers

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) and IS2T(R) S.A. announced
today the industry's most integrated solutions to design embedded
Java applications for Flash microcontrollers. Software developers of
real-time embedded systems can now design with Java up to five times
faster than traditional software technologies. Taking Java to the
embedded market also provides the engineering community with new
opportunities to design and maintain more robust, secure and scalable
applications.

Specifically targeted for AVR(R)32 UC3 Microcontroller,
MicroJvm(R) Java platforms offer embedded developers a small memory
footprint, high speed Java engine with optimized software library
bundles. Total memory requirements for a typical application with
graphic LCD display and connectivity is 64 KBytes of SRAM for data
and 256 KBytes of flash for program memory. This makes the AVR32 UC3
family with its high memory density and high CPU performance an ideal
platform for execution of Java programs.

The embedded Java platforms from IS2T provide an excellent
alternative to platforms such as embedded Linux(R) and Windows(R)
CE/MF as they meet the economical constraints of low cost and highly
integrated systems while drastically reducing development costs.
These Java platforms are ideal for designing devices with
communication links, LCD displays and sensors. Application segments
such as, but not limited to, machine-to-machine, e-metering, home
automation and consumer will benefit from reduced maintenance costs
due to binary-level application reuse across different device
hardware configurations and remote dynamic updates.

New generations of processors such as the AVR32 UC3 series of
microcontrollers provide developers with more CPU performance and
larger memory densities 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. One of the key benefits of using Java in an embedded
system is the fact that the Java code can be reused throughout the
lifetime of a product without having to re-develop the application
software if the CPU is upgraded or the display supplier changes.

Optimized Java platforms - MicroJvm virtual machine
implementations and the off-device Java class loader and optimizer
called SOAR(R) shrink program and data memory usage to fit to AVR32
UC3 single chip microcontroller configurations. IS2T also provides
the IceTea(R) Java accelerator technology that dramatically improves
software library execution speed. Overall, complex applications
running on MicroJvm virtual machine have less than 5ms starting time
and are less than 15% slower than their C implementation
counterparts.

High performance AVR32 UC3 Series - The AVR32 UC3 core is the
first 32-bit microcontroller core in the industry to integrate
single-cycle read/write SRAM with a direct interface to the pipeline
that bypasses the system bus to achieve faster execution, better
deterministic behavior and lower power consumption. The core today
delivers up to 1.5 Dhrystone MIPS/MHz, running from on-chip flash
memory. The AVR32 UC3 includes advanced features such as DSP
arithmetic, single-cycle multiply and accumulate instructions and
atomic bit or word read-modify-write instructions. The key benefits
are high computational throughput, deterministic and real-time
control, low power, lower system cost, high reliability and ease of
use. 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 thanks to its outstanding
performance/power consumption ratio up to 1.08 DMIPS per mW. AT32UC3
microcontrollers rich feature set includes up to 512 KB Flash, up to
64 KB SRAM, Ethernet MAC, USB with OTG (on-the-go), 10-bit ADC, SPIs,
SSC, two-wire interface (I2C compatible), UARTs, general purpose
timers, pulse width modulators and a full set of supervisory
functions.

Development tools - MicroEJ(R) AVR32 Java Platform Kits (JPK) and
MicroEJ Eclipse Workbench assist software designers to write Java
applications in AVR32 Studio. Using MicroEJ, developers can debug
Java programs on the Java Smart Software Simulator (S3(TM)) without
embedded hardware or directly on targets at Java source level using
JDWP Eclipse debugger.

MicroEJ Eclipse Workbench and MicroEJ JPK development /
evaluation licenses for AVR32 UC3 architecture are available directly
from IS2T. Development license fees for MicroEJ JPK are an annual
enterprise level per-user fee including support and maintenance. A
manufacturing contract for MicroJvm virtual machine run-time
duplications is required. MicroEJ Eclipse Workbench is free of
charge.

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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About IS2T

Headquartered in Nantes, France, IS2T offers the most advanced
Object Oriented Programming solutions to reduce develop cost and to
improve quality of applications for embedded systems. IS2T 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
IS2T Java solution information for AVR32 is available at
http://www.is2t.com/products/AVR32
Atmel Press Contact:
Helen Perlegos, Public Relations
Tel: +1-408-487-2963, Email: Helen.perlegos@atmel.com
IS2T Press Contact:
Regis Latawiec, Sales Director
Tel: +33-(0)-2-40-18-04-96, Email: regis.latawiec@is2t.com

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Contact:
Helen Perlegos, Public Relations of Atmel Corporation,
+1-408-487-2963, Helen.perlegos@atmel.com; or Regis Latawiec, Sales
Director of IS2T, +33-(0)-2-40-18-04-96, regis.latawiec@is2t.com