Date: 27/01/2010

Xirgo selects Atmel's Cortex-M3 Flash MCU for its asset tracking platforms

Xirgo has selected Atmel's Cortex-M3 Flash MCU for enhanced-battery-life asset tracking platforms. Atmel's Cortex-M3-based Flash microcontrollers offer high processing power and enhanced power efficiency for on-device application support to reduce data transmission costs, while maximizing battery life.

Atmel's Cortex-M3-based SAM3S-series enable an easy migration path for SAM7S, at maximum operating frequency of 64 MHz, the device consumes only 1.45 mW / MHz.

Atmel's SAM3 Cortex-M3 MCUs add new peripheral functionality including high-speed USB, SD/SDIO/MMC and SPI, on-die termination resistors that simplify PCB design, parallel IO signal capture, memory protection unit, external memory scrambler and 12-bit analog converters, and suitable for the applications such as consumer, industrial control, metering, toys, medical, test and measurement, 802.15.4 wireless networking, PC, cell phone and gaming peripherals.

"The Atmel Cortex-M3 family's broad on-chip peripheral support and hardware and software compatibility, with older Atmel ARM7TDMI-based microcontrollers provides an easy migration path for next-generation devices that have more demanding power optimization and processing power requirements," said Kris Kelkar, Chief Executive Officer at Xirgo.

For more details visit www.atmel.com, www.xirgotech.com