Product category: Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs
News Release from: Atmel Corporation | Subject: AT91SAM9261
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 18 November 2005
Smart MCU aims for point-of-sale control
The AT91SAM9261 smart ARM microcontroller (SAM) is based on the ARM926EJ-S processor and is billed as the industry's first ultra-low-power deterministic microcontroller.
Atmel Corporation has developed the industry's first ultra-low-power deterministic microcontroller, the AT91SAM9261 smart ARM microcontroller (SAM), based on the ARM926EJ-S processor Targeted at low power, high throughput wireless handheld applications, such as wireless PoS devices, the AT91SAM9261 consumes only 2.5uA in standby mode
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 23 May 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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Operating at 500Hz it draws 400uA.
Maximum operating power at 180MHz with all peripherals turned on is just 65mA.
The AT91SAM9261's 200MIPS throughput and its extended instruction set with DSP extensions allow complex DSP functions, such as biometrics, voice recognition, software modems, or encryption/decryption algorithms like RSA, to be executed very quickly in burst mode, so the can system be shut down much of the time.
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