Atmel Launches Industry's Lowest-Power 1.8V CPLD Family with 5 uA Standby Power Consumption

San Jose, California (ots/PRNewswire) -

- The only CPLD with on-chip EEPROM. Macrocell architecture
doubles logic density.

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), announced today its ATF15xxBE
family of ROHS-compliant, 1.8V CPLDs with standby power consumption
of just 5 uA -- over 60% less power drain than the nearest competing
CPLD. Operating power consumption is 1 mA at 20 MHz or less.
Available in densities ranging from 32 to 128 macrocells, ATF15xxBE
CPLDs can be used to implement system watchdog, MCU I/O port
expansion, memory interface, LCD display module drivers, and voltage
translators.

Their ultra-low standby power consumption makes the ATF15xxBE PLDs
ideal for applications that spend the majority of their time in
standby mode. These include smart phones, keypad scanners, and
handheld appliances as well as toys using infrared transmitters with
low security needs.

ATF15xxBE CPLDs are the only CPLDs on the market that offer up to
32 Kbits of on-chip EEPROM for the storage of constants, OEM
proprietary data, end-product ID, or other data.

Unique macrocell architecture doubles logic utilization. ATF15xxBE
CPLDs have a unique macrocell architecture with independent feedback
paths for both the register and combinatorial logic that fully
exploits macrocell resources. Conventional CPLDs incorporate
macrocells that have only one feedback path. If the register is being
used to latch data, the combinatorial logic in that cell cannot be
utilized at all. Atmel's dual-path architecture allows both register
and combinatorial macrocell resources to be fully utilized virtually
all the time, in effect doubling the amount of available logic,
ATF15xxBE CPLDs frequently allow designers to implement their system
in a smaller, less expensive device.

Logic doubling is automatic. Atmel's ProChip Designer(R) fitter
automatically checks CPLD resource utilization and implements logic
doubling without any user action.

Compatible with 5V ATF15xxAS and Altera's EPM3000 and EPM7000
CPLDS. The ATF15xxBE industry standard pin out is compatible with
Atmel's 3.3V ATF15xxASV and 5V ATF15xxAS families, and offers a
lower-power alternative to Altera's EPM3000 and EPM7000 CPLDs,
Xilinx's XC2CxxA and Lattice's LC40xxZ CPLDs.

Downloadable Mentor Graphics(R)-based tools. Atmel's ProChip
Designer 4.0 integrates Mentor Graphic's industry-standard design
entry, synthesis and simulation software from within Atmel's
proprietary ProChip Designer fitting software. Designers can use
Atmel's OEM version of Precision(R) RTL Synthesis and/or ModelSim(R)
Simulation environment to design the ATF15xxBE CPLD family.
Third-party programming vendors such as BP Microsystems, Data I/O(R),
Hilo, and EE tools also support stand-alone programming of the
ATF1502BE.

Pricing and Availability. Samples of the ATF1502BE and ATF1504BE
CPLDs are available now in -5 ns and -7 ns speed grades in fully
green, ROHS-compliant TQFP packages. Pricing for ATF1502BE starts at
USD $.95 for 10k units. The ATF1504BE starts at USD $1.95 for 10k
units. The 128 macrocell ATF1508BE CPLD will be available in the
second quarter of 2007.

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, Atmel ICs can be found Everywhere
You Are(R).

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Information:

Atmel's ATF1502BE product information may be retrieved at: http://
www.atmel.com/dyn/products/product_card.asp?family_id=653&family_name
= SPLD%2FCPLD&part_id=3832

For further information on the SPLD/CPLD Family, go to
http://www.atmel.com .

Press Contacts:
Yadvindra Dhami, Product Marketing Manager
Phone: +1-408-436-4166, Email: ydhami@atmel.com
Helen Perlegos, Public Relations - USA and Asia Pacific Rim
Phone: +1-408-487-2963, Email: hperlegos@atmel.com
Veronique Sablereau, Corporate Communications Manager - Europe
Phone: +33-1-30-60-70-68, Fax: +49-71-31-67-24-23
Email: veronique.sablereau@atmel.com

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