SAN JOSE, Calif., Jan. 27, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- Atmel®
Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML), a leader in microcontroller (MCU) and
touch technology solutions, today announced that Atmel's maXTouch®
firmware development facility in Whiteley, U.K., has achieved the
Automotive SPICE® Level 3 certification—a certification that
addresses rigid requirements for the software development process
for tier 1 and tier 2 partners in the automotive industry.
SPICE, also known as Software Process Improvement and Capability
dEtermination, is a process assessment model with a set of
technical standards documents for the computer software development
process and related business management functions. It is one of the
joint International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and
International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) standards, and it
was developed by the ISO and IEC joint subcommittee ISO/IEC JTC
1/SC 7. Automotive SPICE is a version of SPICE that applies
specifically to the automotive industry, however the benefits of
the Automotive SPICE certification will also apply to the consumer
industry and other industries that use maXTouch technology in the
future.
For Atmel, achieving this certification is evidence of its
recognition as a world-class leader in touch software development
capabilities and processes for automotive electronics and embedded
systems.
To achieve the certification, Atmel redefined and redesigned its
software development process over a three-year period. Atmel
achieved Automotive SPICE Level 2 compliance in 2014, and Level 3
after the final independent assessment was completed at the Atmel
Whiteley facility between November 23,
2015, and November 27, 2015.
That assessment was conducted by an independent third-party
organization, Vector Consulting Services of Germany, a leading company for organizational
change management in product development.
"Atmel joins an elite group of organizations that have achieved
an Automotive SPICE Level 3 certification," said Thomas Wunderlich, Principal SPICE Assessor and
Manager at Vector Consulting Services. "This is a significant
achievement for an embedded semiconductor provider and underscores
Atmel's commitment to following best practices when developing
capacitive touch interfaces for the automotive industry."
"As we shift to an era of smart, connected cars with sleek,
touch interfaces, quality and reliability becomes that much more
important in the automotive space," said Brian Daly, Vice President, Touch Business Unit,
Atmel. "We are proud to be one of the few embedded solution
providers—and the only automotive touchscreen supplier—that have
achieved the prestigious Automotive SPICE assessment. This
certification is further testament that through our popular
maXTouch devices, we are committed to bringing more innovation to
the automotive markets."
Powering thousands of automotive touchscreens and touchpads in
vehicles on the roads today, the Atmel maXTouch T Series products
are the industry's first auto-qualified self- and
mutual-capacitance controllers that meet high reliability standards
in harsh environments.
More Information
Atmel Automotive-Qualified MCUs:
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About Atmel
Atmel Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML) is a
worldwide leader in the design and manufacture of microcontrollers,
capacitive touch solutions, 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 intelligent and connected solutions focused on the
industrial, consumer, communications, computing and automotive
markets.
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