Atmel's Low-cost CAP Starter Kit Hosts Image Viewer Reference Design From PGC

Rousset, France and Taipei, Taiwan (ots/PRNewswire) -

- Illustrates Ease and Rapidity of CAP Application Development;
JPEG Compression and De-compression IP available from PGC

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) and PGC (Progate Group
Corporation) announced today the availability of a JPEG image viewer
reference design ported onto the low-cost AT91CAP9A-STK Starter Kit
for Atmel's AT91CAP9S Customizable Microcontroller. When connected to
a host PC via its USB Device Port, the CAP-STK appears as a mass
storage device for JPEG images. Running stand-alone, the CAP-STK
de-compresses the images and displays them on its VGA screen, using
JPEG de-compression and display IP supplied by PGC, and mapped into
the FPGA that emulates CAP's Metal Programmable block.

Michel Le Lan, Atmel's Marketing Director for ASICs, commented,
"This reference design highlights CAP's benefits for application
developers. The JPEG IP is easily mapped into the CAP(TM) Metal
Programmable block, where it runs extremely efficiently, and can
co-exist with other application-specific functions. The USB Device
Port is just one of CAP's many standard interfaces, enabling rapid
data transfer from external sources. The CAP Starter Kit is very
attractively priced, lowering the barrier to entry for customers with
modest development budgets."

EJ Chiang, PGC's Sales & Marketing Director, commented, "Atmel's
CAP series provides a robust ARM(R) platform with a rich IP
portfolio. PGC's SoC team can support designers to focus on a
customer's own design on the CAP MP block, and provide a better time
to market service for customers. This JPEG reference design is just
to show one of the many applications targeted by the CAP series and
the mature design service provided by PGC. PGC can also provide
technical training to customers who have CAP Development Kits. PGC is
now ready to launch a design service for customers in Greater China
with Atmel's CAP series."

Availability

The PGC JPEG Encoder and Decoder IP Blocks used to create this
reference design are available now, from
http://www.pgc.com.tw/ip-digital.htm

About Atmel

Atmel is a worldwide leader in the design and manufacture of
microcontrollers, 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 consumer, industrial, security, communications,
computing and automotive markets.

About PGC

Since its foundation in 1991, PGC (Progate Group Corporation) has
focused on ASIC design services. From design initiation,
verification, first silicon to production, PGC does its best to
perform a time-to-value partner services to its customers. PGC
endeavors to provide customers the best quality of design, logistics
and quality control service to achieve the challenges of time to
market, competitive price, and the most competitive position in the
market.

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Atmel Product Information:

Atmel's AT91CAP9A-STK product information may be retrieved at
http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/tools_card.asp?tool_id=4234

Atmel's AT91CAP product information may be retrieved at
http://www.atmel.com/products/AT91CAP/

PGC Product Information:

PGC's products and services are described at
http://www.pgc.com.tw/business.html

Atmel Press Contacts:
Peter Bishop, Communications Manager, Atmel Rousset
Tel: +33-(0)4-42-53-61-50, Email: peter.bishop@atmel.com
Helen Perlegos, Public Relations
Tel: +1-408-487-2963, Email: helen.perlegos@atmel.com
PGC Press Contacts:
EJ Chiang, Director of Sales & Marketing Dept., PGC
Tel: +886-2-2658-2233 #242, Email: ej_chiang@pgc.com.tw
Lulu Wu, Public Relations, PGC
Tel: +886-2-2658-2233 #232, Email: lulu@pgc.com.tw

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Contact:
Peter Bishop, Communications Manager, Atmel Rousset,
+33(0)4-42-53-61-50, peter.bishop@atmel.com, or Helen Perlegos,
Public Relations, +1-408-487-2963, helen.perlegos@atmel.com; EJ
Chiang, Director of Sales & Marketing Dept., +886-2-2658-2233, #242,
ej_chiang@pgc.com.tw, or Lulu Wu, Public Relations, +886-2-2658-2233,
#232, lulu@pgc.com.tw, both of PGC