Date: 08/05/2011

Atmel launches new MCU kits named Xplained supporting its range of MCUs

Atmel Corporation has expanded the Atmel AVR Xplained evaluation kits to support applications in the industrial, consumer, automotive and computing markets. These kits support all Atmel AVR devices including the megaAVR, AVR XMEGA and AVR UC3 families. A range of extension boards are also being released as accessory devices.
The extension boards include the Sensors Xplained series, CryptoAuthentication Xplained and Temperature Sensors Xplained. The sensor Xplained series features partnerships with suppliers of accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetometers and pressure sensors with supporting driver software.

"Atmel is committed to providing our customers with complete microcontroller solutions," said Ingar Fredriksen, sr. director, AVR product marketing, Atmel Corporation. "The launch of the new AVR Xplained kits is another step towards providing a complete microcontroller toolchain to our customers and the application specific add-on boards greatly simplify system integration of these optimized peripheral devices. The Xplained MCU kits and add-on boards seamlessly connect to the development environment in AVR Studio with software libraries and a wide range of code examples."

The AVR Xplained kits feature the respective Atmel microcontroller with a selection of external circuitry including Atmel QTouch slider and buttons, LEDS, analog light and temperature sensors, USB port and four expansion headers. These features provide easy access to analog and digital I/O and accommodate the various add-on boards.

For more information about Atmel's AVR Xplained kits visit: http://www.atmel.com/Xplained