Atmel Introduces an AVR32 Application Processor for Linux-based, Cost-constrained Embedded Designs

San Jose, California (ots/PRNewswire) -

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today the
AT32AP7001, a member of the AVR(R)32 AP7 family of Application
Processors optimized for cost constrained, Linux(R)-based embedded
designs. The device is packaged in a 30 x 30mm VQFP for easy
integration into a four-layer PCB design.

Examples of applications for the AT32AP7001 include printers, fax
machines, surveillance cameras, audio processing and industrial
control equipment. The new device is built to run the popular Linux
operating system in an embedded setting. Atmel provides a free port
and support of the OS and tool chain.

The AT32AP7001 is built around Atmel's high throughput AVR32 AP7
Application Processor core and offers 210 Dhrystone v2.1 MIPS when
clocked at 150 MHz and powered at 1.8V (1.4 DMIPS / MHz), with an
active power consumption of 75 mA (500 uA/MHz). The core has built-in
DSP, SIMD instruction set, branch prediction and MMU. The device
offers Dynamic Frequency Scaling (DFS), which allows on-the-fly
adjustments of the power consumption in the four on-chip clock
domains (CPU, High Speed Bus, 2 independent peripheral buses).

Peripherals -- On chip peripherals of the AT32AP7001 include a BT
656 compliant camera interface, three full duplex IIS audio channels,
one AC97 interface, a built-in 2-channel 16-bit audio bitstream DAC,
a Hi-Speed (480 Mb/s) USB device interface with 7 endpoints, a dual
port MMC/SD card interface, four USARTS, two SPI interfaces, and a
two-wire interface (I2C compatible). The device also offers up to 90
I/O.

The AT32AP7001 memory subsystem consists of a 32 KB on-chip high
speed SRAM, 16+16 KB instruction and data caches, a memory management
unit, DMA for high speed peripherals, and a peripheral DMA controller
for peripherals that run on a relatively low speed. The on-chip bus
matrix contains 4 independent system buses, allowing up to 1.2 GB/s
throughput between CPU and peripheral memories.

Linux -- Atmel provides a free of charge port of the Linux
operating system for the AVR32 AP7 family available from
http://www.kernel.org. Atmel also maintains and provides a
free-of-charge port of the GCC toolchain, device drivers, and popular
libraries and applications. This will facilitate the adoption of the
many thousands open source and free applications available for use in
embedded systems.

Tools -- Unlike multicore or two-processor solutions, the
AT32AP7001 has a single development environment and straightforward
debugging. Compilers with C, and C++ support are available from GNU
(GCC) and IAR(R) Systems (Embedded Workbench). Both compilers are
SIMD- and DSP-aware and have intelligence that can identify patterns
in the C-code and automatically compile the appropriate SIMD DSP
instructions. Both also support access to inline assembly for
tight-loop / inner-loop algorithmic optimizations.

For entry-level evaluation of the AVR32 AP7 Application
Processors, Atmel recommends the AVR32 Network Gateway kit that is
available now (order code ATNGW100). Customers looking for a complete
reference system can also use the ATSTK1000 starter kit. Both kits
offer a full evaluation of the AT32AP7000 family of parts, including
the Linux, GCC and IAR toolchains.

Availability and Pricing

The AT32AP7001 is available now in a 208-pin VQFP package and is
priced at US $8.00 in quantities of 10,000 pieces.

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:

Atmel's AVR32 product information may be retrieved at
http://www.atmel.com/avr32

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