SAN JOSE, Calif., July 15, 2015 /PRNewswire/
-- Atmel® Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML), a global
leader in microcontroller (MCU) and touch solutions, today
announced it is shipping in mass production the highest performing
ARM® Cortex®-M based MCUs on the market, the
Atmel | SMART™ SAM S70 and E70 series.
With 50% higher performance than the closest competitor, larger
configurable SRAM, larger embedded Flash and high-bandwidth
peripherals, these devices offer the ideal mix of connectivity,
memory and performance. The SAM S70 and E70 series allow customers
to scale-up performance and deliver SRAM and system functionality,
while keeping the Cortex-M processor family ease-of-use and
maximizing software reuse.
"As a lead partner for the ARM Cortex-M7-based MCUs, we are
excited to ship volume units of our SAM E70 and S70 MCUs to
worldwide customers," said Jacko Wilbrink,
Sr. Marketing Director, Atmel Corporation. "Our SAM E70 and
SAM S70 series deliver a robust memory and connectivity feature
set, along with extensive software and third party support,
enabling next-generation industrial, consumer and IoT designers the
ability to differentiate their applications in a demanding market.
We are working with hundreds of customers worldwide on a variety of
applications using the new ARM Cortex-M7-based MCUs and look
forward to mass adoption of these devices."
The devices deliver over four times the performance of current
Atmel | SMART ARM Cortex-M based MCUs. Running at speeds up to 300
MHz and embedding larger configurable SRAM up to 384 KB and higher
bandwidth peripherals, the new devices offer designers the right
connectivity, SRAM and peripheral mix for industrial and
connectivity designs. The SAM S70 and E70 devices also offer
advanced memory architectures with up to 384KB of multi-port SRAM
memory out of which 256KB can be configured as tightly coupled
memory delivering zero wait state access at 300MHz. All devices
come with high-speed USB Host and Device with on-chip high-speed
USB PHY and Flash memory densities of 512kB, 1MB and 2MB.
The Atmel | SMART ARM Cortex-M7-based MCUs are supported by ARM
ecosystem partners on development tools and real-time operating
system (RTOS) board support packages (BSPs) accelerating
time-to-market. Software development tools are available on Atmel
Studio, the ARM Keil MDK-ARM and IAR Embedded Workbench. Operating
system support include Express Logic ThreadX, FreeRTOS,
Keil® RTX, NuttX and Segger embOS. A comprehensive set
of peripheral driver examples and open source middleware is
provided in Atmel's Software Package.
"Atmel has developed a global network of ecosystem partners that
deliver hardware and software solutions for the Atmel SMART
Cortex-M7 MCU," said Steve Pancoast,
Vice President of Software Applications, Tools and Development,
Atmel. "Atmel's robust, easy-to-use development platform along with
our partners' advanced development platforms offer developers the
opportunity to use the best tools and services to bring their
designs quickly to market. Atmel continues to expand our partner
program to bring the best tools and solutions to our
customers."
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Availability and Pricing
Production quantities of the
SAM E70 and SAM S70 series are available now. To help accelerate a
design, an Atmel Xplained development kit is also available today
to support these devices. Pricing for the SAM S70 starts at
$5.34 in 64-pin LQFP package and
512KB on-chip flash for 10k-piece quantities. The Atmel Xplained
board is USD $136.25.
More Information
Atmel | SMART SAM S Series:
http://www.atmel.com/products/microcontrollers/arm/sam-s.aspx
Atmel | SMART SAM E Series:
http://www.atmel.com/products/microcontrollers/arm/sam-e.aspx
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About Atmel Corporation
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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PARTNER QUOTES
Express Logic
"With over 2 billion deployments, our
ThreadX RTOS has established a reputation for reliability and high
performance, directly aligning it with the ARM Cortex M7 and
its focus as a fast, easy-to-use solution for the IoT and
industrial markets," said William E.
Lamie, President, Express Logic. "We are excited to
support early ARM partners such as Atmel on the ARM Cortex M7-based
MCUs for next-generation, high performance applications. With
Atmel's ultra-high performance Atmel | SMART SAM E70 and S70
families, the ThreadX RTOS enables many advanced features to help
developers quickly—and seamlessly—get to market."
IAR
"IAR Embedded Workbench provides a complete and
powerful integrated development environment enabling developers to
use the full potential of the Atmel | SMART ARM Cortex M7-based
MCUs," said Stefan Skarin, CEO, IAR
Systems. "We've collaborated with Atmel for over a decade and have
worked closely with them on the ARM Cortex M7-based MCUs.
Developers using Atmel MCUs can be confident our comprehensive
development tools enable them to create reliable code with
maximized performance and get their products faster to market."
Keil
"The Keil Microcontroller Development Kit
seamlessly supports the latest ARM Cortex-M processors by providing
developers with flexible tools to implement their applications,"
said Reinhard Keil, Director,
Microcontroller Tools, Development Solutions Group, ARM. "As a lead
partner of the Cortex-M7, Atmel has worked closely with ARM to
ensure developers have powerful software environments for the most
demanding embedded applications running on Atmel SAM E70 and S70
devices."
NuttX
"The NuttX RTOS focuses on deeply embedded
environments and are compatible with 8- and 32-bit architectures,"
said Gregory Nutt, Author,
NuttX. "NuttX is an open source, royalty free RTOS available
under the non-restrictive BSD license that works seamlessly with
the Atmel ARM Cortex M7 solutions, with the option to scale with
our rich set of files, libraries and standard Unix-like
environment. We are thrilled to support the Atmel ARM Cortex M7
architecture for next-generation applications."
Segger
"As one of the first tool vendors to support
the ARM Cortex-M7 architecture, we ensure that early adopters can
exploit the full potential of these high-performance devices," said
Dirk Akemann, Partnership Marketing
Manager at SEGGER Microcontroller. "We worked closely with ARM and
Atmel from day one to ensure our J-Link debug probes and middleware
products work seamlessly for developers using ARM Cortex-M7
architecture. We are excited to support Atmel's ARM Cortex-M7-based
MCUs."
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