Atmel Corporation Receives 1999 Product of the Year Award; FPSLIC Brings Programmability to System-on-Chip Design.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 17, 2000 Atmel Corporation (Nasdaq:ATML ATML Automatic Test Markup Language ATML Automated Test Markup Language ) today accepted the 1999 Product of the Year Award for its Field-Programmable System-Level ICs (FPSLIC FPSLIC Field Programmable System Level Integrated Circuit ). The award is given by Electronic Products magazine. "We are delighted for Atmel and the AT94 family. This family of products represents a significant first, it is the first ever opportunity for small companies to develop System On a Chip products," said Nicholas Hamersley, Publisher for Electronic Products. "We are proud to receive this award and be acknowledged for this new product that brings the benefits to programmability to System-on-Chip design." said Joel Rosenberg, Product Line Director for Programmable System Level Integration Products. Atmel's FPSLIC combines fixed and programmable logic on a single device. FPSLIC offers the possibility of self-contained systems residing on a single chip. It includes up to 40,000 gates of the company's AT40K FPGA family, along with its RISC RISC in full Reduced Instruction Set Computing Computer architecture that uses a limited number of instructions. RISC became popular in microprocessors in the 1980s. AVR 8-bit processor core and many common microcontroller peripherals such as UART, SPI, timer/ counters, and a hardware multiplier. In addition, the chip provides 36 Kbytes of program/data SRAM. The chip also features the ability to reconfigure parts of the FPGA while the system is running. Systems that are required to implement multiple standards could carry configurations for each in ROM, and load each as required in real time. An example is a mobile phone that can change from W-CDMA See WCDMA. to GSM as it moves from one country to another. FPSLIC is supported by a complete EDA suite, System Designer, including co-verification of processor code, FPGA hardware and the AVR software. The software includes an instruction set simulator An Instruction Set Simulator (ISS) is a simulation model, usually, but by no means always, coded in a high-level language, which mimics the behavior of a mainframe or microprocessor by "reading" instructions and maintaining internal variables which represent the processor's for the AVR and a HDL (Hardware Description Language) A language used to describe the functions of an electronic circuit for documentation, simulation or logic synthesis (or all three). Although many proprietary HDLs have been developed, Verilog and VHDL are the major standards. FPGA design simulator that work together before any actual hardware is developed. Founded in 1984, Atmel Corporation is headquartered in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. with manufacturing facilities in Colorado Springs, Colorado The City of Colorado Springs is the second most populous city (after Denver) in the state of Colorado and the 48th most populous city in the United States.[4] The city is the county seat of El Paso County. , Nantes and Rousset, France and Heilbronn, Germany. Atmel designs, manufactures and markets on a worldwide basis advanced logic, mixed-signal, non-volatile memory, and RF semiconductors. Atmel is also a leading provider of system level integration semiconductor solutions using advanced CMOS, BiCMOS, BiPolar and SiGe process technologies. Atmel product and financial information are available from its Fax-on-Demand service. In North America call 1-800-292-8635 or Internationally, call 1-408-441-0732. Requests may be made via e-mail to literature@atmel.com or by visiting Atmel's web site at www.atmel.com. Note to Editors: Atmel, the Atmel logo and combinations thereof and others contained herein, are trademarks of Atmel Corporation. Terms and product names in this document may be the trademarks of others. |
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