Microcontrollers provide low-current consumption

Atmel Corporation has announced three six-pin Picopower AVR microcontrollers.

The ATtiny4, ATtiny5, and ATtiny9 are targeted towards size and cost-constrained high-volume consumer applications requiring low-current consumption.

These devices are pin and code compatible, offering 512b or 1kb of programmable Flash memory, 32 bytes of internal SRAM, 4-channel 8-bit A/D converter (in ATtiny5), analog comparator, and a 16-bit timer with PWM.

Using the AVR CPU, microcontrollers can process up to 12 MIPS at 12 MHz, reducing the time in active mode and increasing the time spent in power-saving sleep modes.

ATtiny4, ATtiny5, and ATtiny9 are pin and code compatible to the existing ATtiny10, enabling migration in between projects with different requirements.

The microcontrollers are also pin compatible with similar devices from competitors.

All tinyAVR microcontrollers use the standard AVR microcontroller development tools.

The AVR Studio integrated development environment is available free of charge on Atmel's website.

Samples of the ATtiny4, ATtiny5 and ATtiny9 are available now.

Volume prices for 10k units starts at USD0.30 (GBP0.18).

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