Embedded Solutions

New tinyAVR® MCUs Increase System Throughput While Lowering Power Consumption in Embedded Applications

Microchip Technology Inc. (NASDAQ: MCHP), a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, has further expanded its AVR® microcontroller (MCU) portfolio by adding three new devices to the tinyAVR® MCU family.  The new ATtiny1617 series of MCUs expand the range of AVR devices that feature Core Independent Peripherals (CIPs), which help increase system throughput while lowering overall power consumption.  The new devices extend the memory offering for these next generation tinyAVR MCUs with new 16 KB Flash options, while remaining pin and code compatible with the recently released ATtiny817 series devices.  Furthermore, all members of the family are supported by Atmel START, an online tool for intuitive graphical configuration of embedded software projects. 

The new MCUs offer 16 KB Flash, 256 B EEPROM, and 2 KB RAM in 14-, 20-, and 24-pin packages. The devices contain key features of other tinyAVR MCUs including the Event System Controller, which allows peripherals to communicate without using the Central Processing Unit (CPU) and enables designers to customize the configuration of the MCU for their specific application.  The on-chip Peripheral Touch Controller (PTC) simplifies the development of capacitive touch systems.  Other integrated features include: a 20 MHz internal oscillator, high-speed serial communication with USART, SPI, and I2C, configurable custom logic blocks, a 10-bit Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC) with internal voltage references, operating voltages ranging from 1.8 V to 5.5 V, and picoPower® technology for sleep currents as low as 100 nA.

 “There is more growth and innovation in the AVR MCU portfolio now than at any point in the past decade,” said Steve Drehobl, vice president of Microchip’s 8-bit MCU division. “Microchip is committed to continue the AVR MCU family of products.”

Liat

Recent Posts

eInfochips and NXP Collaborate to Enable Battery Energy Storage Customers

 eInfochips, an Arrow Electronics company, today announced its expanded collaboration with NXP® Semiconductors to help…

20 hours ago

DigiKey Adds More Than 611,000 Products and 139 New Suppliers in Q3 2024

 DigiKey, a leading global commerce distributor offering the largest selection of technical components and automation…

23 hours ago

Infineon launches new generation of GaN power discretes with superior efficiency and power density

Infineon Technologies AG (FSE: IFX / OTCQX: IFNNY) today announced the launch of a new…

3 days ago

Power Integrations Launches 1700 V GaN Switcher IC, Setting New Benchmark for Gallium Nitride Technology

1700 V GaN InnoMux-2 IC delivers efficiency of better than 90 percent from a 1000…

3 days ago

NVIDIA Ethernet Networking Accelerates World’s Largest AI Supercomputer, Built by xAI

NVIDIA today announced that xAI’s Colossus supercomputer cluster comprising 100,000 NVIDIA Hopper Tensor Core GPUs…

1 week ago

Siemens strengthens leadership in industrial software and AI with acquisition of Altair Engineering

Acquisition of Altair Engineering Inc., a global leader in computational science and artificial intelligence software,…

1 week ago