Atmel QTouch Library Now Supports AVR and AVR32 Microcontrollers

San Jose, California (ots/PRNewswire) -

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today the new
release of the popular Atmel QTouch Library, a royalty free software
library providing access to the industry-leading QTouch(TM)
technology. Without the need for external devices, the QTouch Library
adds capacitive touch capabilities to AVR(R) and AVR32
microcontrollers. The new library consists of pre-compiled and object
code binaries, which can be configured individually as touch keys, or
combined in groups to form sliders, navigation wheels or combinations
of all these. The QTouch Library allows full user customization and
optimization of the touch function.

Atmel's complete Development Tools System, available now, makes
it easy to develop a reliable high-performance touch application
based on the AVR and AVR32 microcontrollers. With the market leading
AVR and AVR32 microcontrollers, adding touch functionality to the
application is done while still allowing the majority of the
microcontroller resources to be used for the application software.
"Adding touch capability to the user's application is a unique
feature with the QTouch Library which Atmel offers due to the high
performance of our microcontrollers. Other industry alternatives use
all the microcontroller performance for the touch function, not
allowing for any application software to run reliably
simultaneously," said Ingar Fredriksen, Atmel's AVR Product Marketing
Director.

"This extension of the QTouch Library allows Atmel to offer our
superior touch technology for a full range of AVR and a selection of
AVR32 UC3 devices. Atmel's customers can freely select one of our
tinyAVR(R), megaAVR(R), XMega(R) or AVR32 UC3A devices and add touch
functionality to their design," continued Ingar Fredriksen. "We have
received an overwhelmingly positive response to Atmel's QTouch
Library, it is easy to use, and easily adds capacitive touch to
users' applications. The reliable and high-performance QTouch
technology inspires our users to create new and innovative user
interfaces. This is an important step in our strategy to offer our
QTouch solution to the entire range of Atmel's microcontrollers."

Availability and Pricing

The QTouch Library is available now to register and download at
the product web page together with AVR QTouch Studio, free frontend
software supporting the two available demonstration boards
ATAVRTS2080A and ATAVRTS2080B, supporting ATmega88 and ATtiny88,
respectively.

Information:

Atmel's QTouch Library product information may be retrieved at
http://www.atmel.com/qtouchlib

Information on AVR microcontrollers may be retrieved at
http://www.atmel.com/avr/

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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tinyAVR(R) are registered trademarks, QTouch(TM) is a trademark of
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Press Contact:
Clive Over, Director, Public Relations. Atmel Corporation
Tel: +1-408-436-4305, E-mail: clive.over@atmel.com

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Contact:
Clive Over, Director, Public Relations, Atmel Corporation,
+1-408-436-4305, clive.over@atmel.com