Atmel Launches Industry's First Integrated App Store And
Collaboration Workspace
MUNICH, Nov. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Electronica
2012 -- Atmel® Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML), a
leader in microcontroller (MCU) and touch technology solutions,
today further simplified the software design process for embedded
MCU designers with the introduction of Atmel Gallery, an app store
for development tools and embedded software that evolves Atmel
Studio 6 into a comprehensive integrated development platform
(IDP). Atmel is the first company to bring the convenience of an
app store to the embedded MCU community.
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While MCU designers are under increasing pressure to develop
highly differentiated, innovative and complex products in far less
time than ever before, engineering resources and project times are
not being increased. Growingly, software is used to differentiate
end-customer products, from smartphones to industrial controls.
Yet, traditional software development environments have not evolved
in any meaningful way to accommodate the new realities of the
designers' world. To shorten the design cycles for their
differentiated products, designers today need a comprehensive IDP
that provides easy access to all the necessary tools and embedded
software they require, such as compilers, advanced debugging and
analysis tools, real-time-operating systems and communication
stacks.
Atmel Gallery is built directly into the Atmel Studio 6
development environment and is also available via the web at
gallery.atmel.com to provide easy access to free and commercial
extensions for Atmel Studio including development tools such as
compilers, peripheral configuration, code editing and code
analysis. To support the development of Atmel MCUs, solutions are
available now through the Atmel Gallery from third-party partners
including HP Info Tech, Keil (a division of ARM Holdings),
Percepio, Red Lizard and Symnum Systems to help shorten their
design time.
For instance, FreeRTOS, a popular real-time embedded operating
system (OS), is now integrated into the Atmel Software Framework
and available through Atmel Gallery to give designers easy access
to use real-time OS capabilities in their MCU designs. Atmel will
continue to include additional partner solutions into Atmel
Gallery, including RTOS solutions such as Micrium's popular µC/OS
real-time kernels and µC/Probe data visualization tool and rapid
prototyping tools such as Proteus VSM from Labcenter Electronics
for hardware/software co-simulation, with many more to come.
Atmel also launched Atmel Spaces, a cloud-based collaboration
workspace for hosting software and hardware projects targeting
Atmel MCUs. Atmel Spaces makes it easy for the MCU design community
to collaborate, resulting in a rapidly growing community of
developed tools and embedded software for Atmel MCUs. Available at
spaces.atmel.com, Atmel Spaces provides all the tools to make
collaborative development easy, including access control, version
control system, bug and feature trackers, mailing lists and wikis.
Projects hosted on Atmel Spaces are accessible directly from Studio
6.
"Embedded designers require a new type of development platform,
one that helps meet the exploding software requirements in their
MCU designs. Easy access to all their tool and software needs is
key for enabling them to meet their challenging project timelines,"
said Joerg Bertholdt, director of
marketing, MCU tools and software, Atmel Corporation. "Atmel
Gallery and Atmel Spaces evolve Studio 6 in ways that do just that.
Now, designers can take advantage of the same easy-to-use
environment to satisfy all their tools and software needs with the
opportunity to collaborate with other engineers."
Availability
Available
free of charge, Atmel Studio 6 can be downloaded at
www.atmel.com/atmelstudio. Atmel Gallery and Atmel Spaces are
directly accessible through Atmel Studio 6 or at gallery.atmel.com
and spaces.atmel.com. Atmel Studio supports development for Atmel
AVR® and SAM
ARM®-based Cortex™-M-based Flash MCUs.
Webinar
To learn more about Atmel Gallery, a live
webinar is available on Wednesday, November
28, @ 10:00 am PT. Sign up for
the webinar now.
More Information
Atmel Studio 6:
www.atmel.com/studio6
Atmel Blog: http://atmelcorporation.wordpress.com
Atmel YouTube Channel: www.atmel.com/youtube
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LinkedIn: www.atmel.com/linkedin
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 complete system solutions
focused on industrial, consumer, communications, computing and
automotive markets.
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Partner Quotes
FreeRTOS
"Our collaboration brings together the Atmel
software framework and the popular FreeRTOS kernel in a
professional and pre-packaged integration. This saves Atmel
customers weeks of time otherwise spent on integrating an RTOS and
writing efficient, fully multi-threaded aware peripheral
drivers."
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Richard Barry, founder of the
FreeRTOS project
HP Info Tech
"HP Info Tech's CodeVision for AVR
provides a commercial compiler and automatic program generator for
Atmel AVR microcontrollers. Integrated with Studio 6, AVR designers
now have a choice of compilers and a graphical interface for
peripheral configuration without ever leaving the Atmel Studio 6
development platform. We are excited to participate in the Atmel
Gallery as a new way to deliver the best tools to developers,
hassle free."
-
Pavel Haiduc, manager, HP Info
Tech
Karoly Lukacs
"AStyle
Extension enables programmers to format their source code to keep
it clean, readable and organized. The Atmel Gallery provides an
entirely new way to help a broad base of designers benefit from
innovative developments."
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Karoly Lukacs, developer
Keil
"When designing with ARM-based microcontrollers,
Keil's development tools are best-in-class. The integration between
Atmel Studio 6 and Keil MDK-ARM, along with the easy accessibility
in Atmel Gallery, provides developers of ARM Cortex-M based
applications the flexibility and choice of tools for optimizing
their designs."
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Reinhard Keil, director of MCU
tools, ARM
Labcenter
"Virtual System Modeling with Proteus
reduces product design cycles by shortening product development
time and lowering development cost. The integration of Proteus with
Atmel Studio, and the easy accessibility through Atmel Gallery will
bring development of MCU applications to a new, unprecedented
level."
– John Jameson, chairman and chief software
architect, Labcenter Electronics
Micrium
"Micrium's µC/OS-III Kernel helps save time
for embedded MCU designers. Having µC/OS-III integrated in Atmel
Studio, and easily available in the Atmel Gallery, provides
developers with a commercial RTOS solution that allows them to
build reliable devices – quickly."
-
Jean Labrosse, founder, CEO and
president, Micrium
Percepio
" FreeRTOS+Trace, Percepio's innovative
Tracealyzer tool for the popular FreeRTOS operating system, is now
available in Atmel Gallery. This collaboration with Atmel helps
bring a fully integrated runtime diagnostics solution to embedded
developers to help change the way embedded applications are
developed."
- Johan
Kraft, CEO and founder, Percepio
Red Lizard
"With Red Lizard's Goanna Studio static
code analysis tools, embedded developers can easily extend Atmel
Studio to check their MCU applications against crashes and security
vulnerabilities. Atmel Gallery is a first of its kind to easily
provide all the tools a developer needs. We are excited to be
included in this app store to help bring additional value to the
embedded industry."
- Dr. Ralf Huck, CEO, Red
Lizard Software
Symnum
"Developers can now access Symnum's ViEmu
vi/vim emulator directly in Atmel Gallery without ever leaving the
Studio 6 integrated development platform. Being included in Atmel's
new online app store provides embedded developers with powerful
vi/vim editing, which is available with the simple click of a
download button."
-
Jon Beltran de Heredia, founder,
Symnum
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