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Atmel Corporation
Type Public
Traded as NASDAQ: ATML
(http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/atml)
Industry Semiconductors
Founded 1984
Headquarters San Jose, California, USA
Products Microcontrollers
Flash memory
Touchscreen controllers
Touch sensors
Revenue US$1.43B (FY 2012)[1]
Operating
income
US$74M (FY 2012)[1]
Net income US$30M(FY 2012)[1]
Total assets US$1.43B (FY 2012)[1]
Total equity US$996M (FY 2012)[1]
Employees 5,000
Website www.atmel.com
(http://www.atmel.com)
AtmelFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Atmel Corporation is an American-based designer
and manufacturer of semiconductors, founded in 1984.
The company focuses on embedded systems built
around microcontrollers. Its products include
microcontrollers (8-bit AVR, 32-bit AVR, ARM-
based, automotive grade, and Intel 8051 derivatives)
radio frequency (RF) devices including Wi-Fi,
EEPROM, and flash memory devices, symmetric and
asymmetric security chips, touch sensors and
controllers, and application-specific products. Atmel
supplies its devices as standard products, application-
specific integrated circuits (ASICs), or application-
specific standard product (ASSPs) depending on the
requirements of its customers.
Atmel serves applications including consumer,
communications, computer networking, industrial,
medical, automotive, aerospace and military. It
specializes in microcontroller and touch systems,
especially for embedded systems.
Atmels corporate headquarters is in San Jose
California. Otherlocations include Trondheim, Norway,
Colorado Springs, Colorado, Chennai, India, Shanghai,China, Taipei, Taiwan, Rousset, Nantes, France,
Heilbronn, Germany, Whiteley, UK and Munich,
Germany. Atmel makes much of its product line at
vendor fabrication facilities. It owns a facility in
Colorado Springs, Colorado that manufactures its
XSense line of flexible touch sensors.
Contents
1 History
1.1 Founding and 1980s growth
1.2 1990s expansion
1.3 Streamlining
1.4 Acquisitions
2 Products
2.1 Microcontrollers
2.2 Wireless / RF
2.3 Touchscreen2.4 Memory
2.5 Security
2.6 Analog
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Logo 19842012
This is the first Atmel AVR prototype
demo board, with a prototype die in a
ceramic package.
2.7 Custom
2.8 Automotive
2.9 Smart energy
3 See also
4 References
5 External links
History
Founding and 1980s growth
Atmel Corporation was founded in 1984 by George Perlegos.[2] Atmel was an
acronym for advanced technology for memory and logic. Perlegos had worked
in the memory group of Intel in the 1970s and had co-founded Seeq Technology
to manufacture EPROM memory. Using only $30,000 in capital, Atmel was
initially operated as a fabless company, using Sanyo and General Instrument tomake the chip wafers.[3] The first Atmel memory products used less power than competitors. Customers
included Motorola, Nokia, and Ericsson. In 1987 Intel sued Atmel for patent infringement. [4] Rather than fight
the patent claim, Atmel redesigned its products to use different intellectual property. These had better
performance and even lower power consumption. In addition, Atmel then entered the flash memory business
that Intel had focused on. Atmel used $60 million in venture capital for the 1989 purchase of a fabrication facility
from Honeywell in Colorado Springs.[4] Atmel then invested another $30 million in manufacturing technology.
1990s expansion
In 1991 Atmel expanded the Colorado facility after acquiring
Concurrent Logic, a field-programmable gate array (FPGA)
manufacturer. The company made its initial public offering (IPO) in
1991 which yielded more than $65 million. 1994 saw Atmel enter the
microprocessor market. The first Atmel flash memory microcontroller
was based on the Intel 8051.[5] The controller executed an instruction
for every clock cycle, as opposed to the 12 cycles that legacy 8051
parts required.[6] In 1994, Atmel purchased the EEROM assets of
Seeq Technologies (LSI Corporation acquired the rest of Seeq in
1999) . In 1995 Atmel was among the first companies to license theARM architecture, creating initially its AT91 family of devices,
followed by the SAM family, and more recently a full selection of
Cortex-based solutions, including ones based on the ultra-low-power
ARM Cortex-M4.[7] Atmel now has dozens of families of ARM-
based devices. In 1995 Atmel opened a fabrication facility in Rousset, France. Atmel acquired European Silicon
Structures and Digital Research in Electronic Acoustics and Music (DREAM) in 1996. Atmel formed a design
team in Trondheim, Norway to develop the Atmel AVR line of RISC microcontrollers. This team combined
technology of former students at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology with Atmels expertise in
flash memory. These 8-bit Harvard architecture chips were first developed in 1996. The AVR chip is the basisof Arduino Uno open-source development boards. In 1998, Atmel purchased part of TEMIC from Vishay
Intertechnology, which provided them with a fab in Germany as well as part of MHS from Vishay that gave
them a fab in Nantes, France.[8]
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Atmel AT90S2333
microcontroller
Atmel ATMEGA32
microcontroller
Atmel XSense is a flexible
touchscreen film that uses a copper
mesh instead of indium tin oxide
(ITO).
Microcontrollers
A large part of Atmels revenue is from microcontrollers. These include the
AVR 8- and 32-bit microcontrollers, ARM architecture microprocessors, and
ARM-based flash microcontrollers. In addition Atmel still makes
microcontrollers that use the 8051 architecture, albeit improved to do single-
cycle instructions. Supporting the microcontrollers is the Studio 6 integrated
development environment which Atmel offers for free. They also provide anAtmel Software Framework.[21]
Wireless / RF
To provide for the Internet of Things (IoT), Atmel offers dual-band
2.4 GHz/5 GHz a/b/g Wi-Fi chips from its Ozmo acquisition. In addition,
Atmel makes wireless transceivers using regional 700/800/900 MHz, as well
as global 2.4 GHz frequency bands, Some chips are standalone transceivers
while others are integrated with a microcontroller. They also sell the Zigbit
module that comes with FCC certifications. Atmel also makes remote control
RF products using the license-free ISM band (industrial scientific medical)
frequencies (5.8 GHz, 2.4 GHz, 868 to 928 MHz, 433 MHz, and 315 MHz).
The wireless segment also provides RFID chips for tracking, access and
identification. Finally, Atmel offers a line of IR controllers that can support
infrared as well as RF wireless.
Touchscreen
Atmel makes both touchscreen controller ICs and its XSense flexibletouchscreen.[14] The company makes sensor hubs that manage
accelerometers, gyroscopes, inertial measurement units and
magnetometers. These sensors give consumer products and
embedded systems context awareness. The sensor hub offloads the
main application processor and allows product functionality without
the need to power the main processor. Atmel also makes simple
touch controller chips for buttons, sliders, and wheels used on
industrial and consumer products. The touch wheel interface became
popularized by the Apple iPod. To support the application of its touch
controller chips, Atmel provides a free QTouch library of softwareroutines.
Memory
Atmels original business was in memory, and it still sells several memory products. It offers serial and parallel
EEPROM, as well as one-time programmable (OTP) EPROM. In addition, it offers secure memory with its
CryptoMemory product line of EEPROMS in capacities from 1 to 256 kbits.
Security
In addition to the secure memory mentioned above, they have the CryptoAuthentication product lines that
provide hardware authentication capability with both symmetric- and Asymmetric-key algorithm authentication.
These ICs are used in many applications, including secure access, communications, control, and to prevent
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