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Titel: Starter Kit for AVR®32 RISC Family from Atmel Date: 18.12.2007
By announcing the new AVR®32 Family beginning of this year, Atmel now offers a new 32-bit core with extreme high data throughput at low frequency. This new MCU consumes significant less power than comparable devices would need at similar performance but much higher frequency. This gives a big advantage over the competition for PDA applications.

The architecture of the core provides a JTAG interface for programming and debugging as well as a Nexus Class 3 on-chip-debug module for advanced debug features. The Memory Management Unit (MMU) provides support for full fledged operating systems like Linux.

A pixel-coprocessor, which is tightly coupled to the core, provides DSP instructions for digital filter calculation, scaling and zooming functions.

With the AT32AP7000 the first new member of this product series is available. Beside many standard interfaces like SPI, I2C, USART, Synchronous Serial high-speed interfaces and many timer and PWM units, the device provides peripherals specially for the PDA market like a USB high-speed device, a camera interface, 2 individual Ethernet MAC, a LCD controller and a audio interface. Also the device has a 32/16/8-bit wide external bus interface and may be connected directly to SDARM, SRAM and NAND memory without any glue logic.

As usual, Atmel excellent supports this device family with hardware and software. The new ATSTK1000 is a complete evaluation board with all interfaces, connector and physical links on board. Also a QVGA LCD display provides output possibilities. Part of the content of this evaluation is a CD which contains native programming examples and provides a Board-Support-Package for Linux as well as a precompiled Linux image.

For the new AVR32 family MSC provides an exclusive starter kit. The content of this package is the ATSTK1000 evaluation board which contain the CD, the JTAG Debugger/Programmer JTAGICE-MK2 and a code limited edition EWARV32-KS from IAR.


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