Atmel Introduces New Secure Microcontrollers for Smart Card Applications in Mobile Telecommunications.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 22, 2001 Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq:ATML ATML Automatic Test Markup Language ATML Automated Test Markup Language ) announced today the production release of the AT90SC4816R, a new ROM-based member of its market-leading AT90SC family of AVR-based secure microcontrollers for Smart Cards Example of widely used contactless smart cards are Hong Kong's Octopus card, Paris' Calypso/Navigo card and Lisbon' LisboaViva card, which predate the ISO/IEC 14443 standard. The following tables list smart cards used for public transportation and other electronic purse applications. . Optimized for mobile telecommunications, the AT90SC4816R combines ROM program memory with Atmel's dense non-volatile memory technology and Atmel's AVR (Automatic Voltage Regulation) See voltage regulator. 8-bit 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. core to offer impressive performance at a very competitive price. A significant advantage of the AT90SC4816R is that it can be used to substitute for Atmel's AT90SC3232 Flash-based microcontroller in existing systems. When flexibility and time to market are the main priorities, the Flash-based product offers the best solution; when chip unit cost becomes the main priority, production can be switched to the lower-priced AT90SC4816R. Thanks to its very small die size, the AT90SC4816R can be embedded in low-cost modules, allowing card manufacturers to achieve significant savings in their manufacturing costs. The AT90SC4816R has 48K bytes of masked ROM, 16K bytes of EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable ROM) A rewritable memory chip that holds its content without power. Although EEPROMs spawned flash memory, EEPROMs are byte addressable at the write level, whereas flash chips must erase a block of bytes before rewriting. and 1.5K bytes of RAM. It is compliant with all the following mobile telecommunications specifications: ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute, Sophia Antipolis technical park, Nice, France, www.etsi.org) A non-profit membership organization founded in 1988, dedicated to standardizing information and communication technologies (ICT) throughout Europe. GSM11.11, 11.13 and 3G TS 102 221 V3.0.0 (2000-09). Benoit Makowka, Atmel's Marketing Manager for Mobile Telecommunications Secure ICs commented, "We are delighted to introduce this new ROM based product to our AVR family of products. Thanks to the strong family concept, firmware developers can really capitalize on their development by reusing the same code for different products, and swapping from Flash-based to ROM-based products." About Atmel Founded in 1984, Atmel Corporation is headquartered in San Jose, Calif., with manufacturing facilities in North America and Europe. Atmel designs, manufactures and markets worldwide, advanced logic, mixed-signal, nonvolatile memory and RF semiconductors. Atmel is also a leading provider of system-level integration semiconductor solutions using CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) Pronounced "c-moss." The most widely used integrated circuit design. It is found in almost every electronic product from handheld devices to mainframes. , BiCMOS, bipolar SiGe, and high-voltage BCDMOS process technologies. AT90SC4816R is now available. Production quantities are available at a price of $1.00 per unit in quantities of 200,000 units. Requests may be sent via email to smartcard@atmel.com or by visiting Atmel's website at www.atmel.com. For datasheet information on the AT90SC4816R go to: http://www.atmel.com/atmel/acrobat/1560s.pdf. Note to Editors: Atmel, the Atmel logo, AVR and combinations thereof are registered trademarks 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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