SAN JOSE, Calif., May 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Atmel®
Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), a leader in microcontroller (MCU) and
touch solutions, today announced it is one of the first companies
to achieve ZigBee® Certified product status using ZigBee Light
Link™ Certification, a new industry standard to accelerate the
design of easy-to-use consumer lighting and control products that
will give consumers the ability to wirelessly control their LED
fixtures, light bulbs, timers, remotes and switches within their
homes.
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With this reference implementation for ZigBee Light Link, Atmel
has achieved 'golden unit' status, making it the benchmark against
which future ZigBee Certified products designed to this standard
will be tested. Widely known for its superior RF performance and
extremely low power consumption, the ATmega128RFA1 wireless MCU
serves as an ideal hardware platform for the ZigBee Light Link
Golden Units.
Designed to allow engineers the ability to manage multiple
lighting devices on a single network, this reference design
integrates Atmel's ATmega128RFA1 wireless MCUs on a RF4CE-EK
evaluation kit with ZigBee Light Link profile software stack ported
onto the system. The ATmega128RFA1 offers the industry's lowest
power consumption at 12.5mA in active receive mode, combined with
receiver sensitivity at -101dBm. The ZigBee Light Link reference
implementation can also be used seamlessly with Atmel's LED drivers
for color-mixing, system management and advanced dimming in
commercial, industrial or architectural solid-state lighting
applications.
"Atmel continues to deliver leading-edge, innovative ZigBee
Certified devices for the latest standards," said Ryan Maley, vice president of strategy at the
ZigBee Alliance. "We are excited to work with companies such as
Atmel and help them deliver products that will enable a new and
efficient lighting experience using ZigBee."
ZigBee Light Link provides a global standard for interoperable
and very easy-to-use consumer lighting and control products. In
addition, the standard allows consumers to change lighting remotely
to reflect ambiance, task or season, all while managing energy use
and making their homes greener. There are a number of industry
advantages, including single platform control of multiple devices,
including lamps, switches, dimmers, timers and remote controls. The
standard also enables the lighting control platforms to control up
to 255 devices.
"The need to manage all your lighting requirements on one
control panel is becoming increasingly more popular," said
Oyvind Strom, sr. director of
wireless solutions, Atmel Corporation. "ZigBee Light Link addresses
this requirement by enabling end users to control lighting, color
and dimming for improved comfort, energy savings and convenience.
With Atmel's latest ZigBee Certified products and software stacks,
designers are able to develop these innovative lighting products to
address the end users' needs."
Pricing and Availability
Atmel's ZigBee Light Link Profile (software stack) is available
now free of charge at:
http://www.atmel.com/tools/bitcloudprofilesuite-zigbeepropublicprofile.aspx.
Pricing for the RF4CE-EK evaluation kit is US $479.
ZigBee: Control your world
ZigBee offers green and global wireless standards connecting the
widest range of devices to work together intelligently and help you
control your world. The ZigBee Alliance is an open, non-profit
association of approximately 400 members driving development of
innovative, reliable and easy-to-use ZigBee standards. The Alliance
promotes worldwide adoption of ZigBee as the leading wirelessly
networked, sensing and control standard for use in consumer,
commercial and industrial areas. For more information, visit:
www.ZigBee.org.
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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