Atmel expands its 6-pin AVR Microcontroller family

Atmel has announced the expansion of its AVR microcontroller family with the addition of three new 6-pin picoPower AVR microcontrollers (ATtiny4, ATtiny5, and ATtiny9). The new MCUs are pin- and code- compatible, include a better feature set, and can process up to 12 MIPS at 12 MHz, six times the performance of any other similar sized MCUs in the market.

This processing efficiency reduces the time in active mode and increases the time spent in power saving sleep modes.

Atmel says, the ATtiny4, ATtiny5, and ATtiny9 are pin- and functional-compatible to the existing ATtiny10. The 6-pin tinyAVR MCUs are also pin-compatible with similar devices from competitors. This enables customer to increase the performance and reduce the power consumption in their existing designs.

"The ATtiny10 was launched in April and we were overwhelmed by the rapid market acceptance and strong demand for this device, which is the smallest AVR microcontroller. It is clear that developers needed innovation in this market segment," said Jukka Eskelinen, Product Marketing Director, tinyAVR for Atmel Corporation.

"Atmel is now expanding the offering with three new parts with different memory densities and feature sets. With more parts available, engineers can cost optimize their applications without sacrificing the features they need."

Price: Starts at $0.34 for 5k pieces
Availability: Now in samples

For more details visit www.atmel.com