Date: 20/01/2009

Free windows board support packages for ATMEL MCU family

Atmel has made available for free the Microsoft Windows Embedded Board Support Packages (BSPs) for it's ARM926EJ-S-based embedded microcontroller family AT91SAM9. These BSPs were initially developed by embedded system software developer Adeneo and sold for some fee is now freely available on the web site http://www.at91.com/windows4sam

The above mentioned website also provide documents and demonstration on how to build up applications by using the BSPs. These provide the tools that customers need to work on Atmel's ARM9 based products with Microsoft's embedded technologies.

The first five supported embedded microcontrollers are AT91RM9200, AT91SAM9260, AT91SAM9261, AT92SAM9263 and AT91SAM9G20. The BSP for the AT91SAM9RL64 will be added within the coming months, and will be followed by the BSPs for the next devices in the AT91SAM9 product family as they become available.