ATMEL

Atmel is a global manufacturer of components with Semi-conducteur, created in 1984 by George Perlegos and whose historical activity is the development of memory S not birds. Today Atmel also develops Microcontrôleur S containing heart AVR, 8051 or ARM, of the circuits made safe for smart cards, of ASIC S as well as components radio frequencies. Initially established in the Silicon Valley, with San Jose, Atmel has a strong presence in France, on the site of Rousset beside Aix-en-Provence)

The site of Rousset is specialized in the development and the manufacture of circuits microphone-controllers and ASICs circuits containing heart ARM and AVR, of circuits for Smart card and of intelligent management of power. This site is resulting from the repurchase of the company European Silicon Structures (ES2) in 1995. This technologically the most advanced manufacturing unit group, produced on sections of Silicon of 8 inches of micro the chips in technology CMOS standard, embarked memories, Memory flash and BiCMOS. ATMEL Rousset is committed in many collaboratifs projects of technological development supported by the Ministry for Industry within the framework of MEDEA+ [http://www.atmel.com/products/RD/] and in a research program and development on the memories nonvolatile, baptized Erevna and initialized in 2003.

In area Provence the Alps Riviera, Atmel is also very strongly implied with other industrial partners and academic in the Center Integrated Microelectronic Provence the Alps Cotes of Azure (CIM PACA) and in development projects of protected products launched within the framework of Protected Communicating the Solutions pole of competitiveness.

Among the products containing Processor ARM, Atmel launched a line of products AT91 based on the implementation of a heart ARM7TDMI or ARM926EJ-S and of a Mémoire flash. Atmel also has a heart AVR made safe, in order to meet the needs for the microphone-controllers for smart card. This protected heart has many modifications by improving the performances in term of safety, enabling him to be different notably from the other existing microphone-controllers.

The main competitors of Atmel for the market of ASICs are Infineon, STMicroelectronics, Freescale Semiconductor (ex- Motorola) and Samsung.

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Official site
ARM-based AT91 products
AVR freaks

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