Product category: Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs
News Release from: Atmel Corporation | Subject: ATmega169P and ATmega165P
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 21 March 2006
Microcontrollers sleep for years on a
battery
New microcontrollers incorporate a power-saving technology that provides multiyear battery-life in lighting control, security, keyless entry, ZigBee and other applications.
Atmel Corporation has released the first two AVR microcontrollers to incorporate a power-saving technology that provides multiyear battery-life in lighting control, security, keyless entry, ZigBee and other applications that spend most of their time in sleep mode The picoPower technology reduces "power-save" power consumption to as little as 650nA, even with the 32kHz clock running and superior brown-out detection, the industry's lowest
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 18 Nov 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The two picoPower devices now available are the ATmega169P with a 4x25 segment LCD controller, and the ATmega165P general purpose microcontroller.
Both microcontrollers have 16Kbyte of Flash memory, 512byte EEPROM and 1Kbyte SRAM.
They feature a 10bit ADC, USART, SPI, two-wire interface and operate from 1.8 to 5.5V with up to 16MIPS throughput.
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