Product category: Microprocessors, Microcontrollers and DSPs
News Release from: Atmel Corporation | Subject: ATmega329P, 325P, 3290P and 3250P
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 21 December 2006
Microcontrollers save battery power
Microcontrollers incorporate power-saving technology for multiple-year battery life in LCD, lighting control, security, home automation, ZigBee and other battery applications.
Atmel Corp has announced four new AVR microcontrollers that incorporate power-saving technology for multiple-year battery life in LCD, lighting control, security, home automation, ZigBee and other battery applications The new AVR products are upgraded versions of the popular 64-pin ATmega325/329 and the 100-pin ATmega3250/3290 microcontrollers
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 18 Nov 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Development and debugging is easier and the PCB area is reduced and simplified".
"For typical LCD applications the picoPower technology with on-chip LCD controller can add years to the battery life", concluded Fredriksen.
The new ATmega325P and ATmega3250P devices are pin and feature compatible to the ATmega329P and ATmega3290P, without the on-chip LCD controller.
The ATmega325P and ATmega3250P are a perfect fit in applications where many general purpose I/O, high connectivity and ultra-low power consumption are essential.
All four microcontrollers feature 32Kbyte of self-programmable Flash memory, 2Kbyte of SRAM and 1Kbyte of EEPROM, 10bit ADC, three timer/counters, USART, SPI, I2C compatible two-wire-interface, and full operation from 1.8 to 5.5V with up to 16MIPS throughput.
The ATmega329P can support up to 100 LCD segments and the ATmega3290P supports up to 160 LCD segments.
These new products expand Atmel's world leading and highly successful line of picoPower AVR microcontrollers from five to nine members.
Atmel's picoPower technology uses a variety of innovative techniques that eliminate unnecessary power consumption in power-down modes.
These include an ultra-low-power 32kHz crystal oscillator, automatic disabling and re-enabling of brown-out detection (BOD) circuitry during sleep modes, a power reduction register that completely powers down individual peripherals, and digital input disable registers that reduces the leakage current on digital inputs.
The picoPower AVR microcontrollers consume as little as 340uA in Active mode, 650nA in power-save mode with real-time counter (RTC), and 100nA in power-down mode.
AVR picoPower microcontrollers use the standard AVR microcontroller development tools.
The AVR Studio integrated development environment is available free of charge on Atmel's website.
The ATmega329P and ATmega325P in 64-pin TQFP or QFN packages are available now.
Samples for the ATmega3290P and ATmega3250P in 100-pin TQFP packages will be available in January 2007.
Production quantities will be available in the first quarter of 2007 for ATmega329P and ATmega325P, and the second quarter of 2007 for ATmega3290P and ATmega3250P.
Volume prices for 10,000 units are US $3.54 for ATmega329P, $3.20 for ATmega325P, $3.90 for ATmega3290P and $3.37 for the ATmega3250P, respectively.
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