NUREMBERG, Germany, March 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Embedded World Nuremberg 2011-- Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch solutions, today announced a new fully ...

If you have worked with, or plan to use, Atmel's AVR Studio 4 or AVR32 Studio software you're in for a nice surprise. The company has just released its free AVR Studio 5 set of development tools that ...

In a recent blog post I described the new ARV Studio 5 software development tools from Atmel and the Sensors Xplained drivers that simplify writing code for several types of sensors. (See: AVR Studio ...

Engineers can attest to the problems they encounter when they connect a microcontroller to sensors. The lack of MCU-specific drivers further complicates the process and can lead to heated discussions ...

Many companies have switched to the open source Eclipse platform instead of pushing their own proprietary IDE. Atmel decided to take a different approach for its 8- and 32-bit AVR microcontrollers. It ...