Atmel's High Performance Secure Microcontroller Awarded Common Criteria EAL4+ Certification

Rousset, France (ots/PRNewswire) -

- ARM SC100-based Product Ensures Highly Secure Digital
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Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) is proud to announce that its
AT91SC464384RCU secure microcontroller has been granted Common
Criteria certification EAL4+. This vulnerability assessment
corresponds to today's highest proven resistance against any security
attack (AVA_VLA4). This chip has already received EMVCo approval in
May 2008. The combination of these two certificates ensures highly
secure digital transaction applications based on Telecom platform.

Based on the ARM(R) SecurCore(TM) SC100, The AT91SC product
family targets Mobile Payment, Mobile TV and Multimedia applications.
The AT91SC464384RCU features an outstanding on-chip compact ROM
program memory of 464K Bytes, a flexible 384K Bytes EEPROM for data,
and 18K Bytes of RAM. It offers an impressive set of proven security
features, security mechanisms, and cryptographic functions.
Communication interfaces are ISO7816 and Single Wire Protocol to
target Mobile Payment and Mobile TV applications.

"The two awards, the EMVCo and the Common Criteria EAL4+
Certifications, enhances Atmel's leadership in the secure
microcontroller market and proves that convergence of the wireless,
internet, contactless and TV broadcasting worlds is already
achieved," commented Laurent Sustek, Atmel's Technical Marketing
Manager for Advanced Telecoms.

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.

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Information:

For further information on Atmel's AT91SC family, go to:
http://www.atmel.com/products/secureARM

Press Contacts:
Carine Bourgon, Communications Manager - Atmel Rousset
Tel: (+33)-4-42-53-60-52, Email: carine.bourgon@atmel.com
Helen Perlegos, Public Relations
Tel: (+1)-408-487-2963, Email: helen.perlegos@atmel.com

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Contact:
Carine Bourgon, Communications Manager - Atmel Rousset,
(+33)-4-42-53-60-52, carine.bourgon@atmel.com, or Helen Perlegos,
Public Relations, +1-408-487-2963, helen.perlegos@atmel.com, both of
Atmel Corporation