Atmel® Corporation, the renowned organization in designing and manufacturing of microcontrollers and advanced logic, launched here today a second family based on the AVR®32 UC core, its 32-bit Flash microcontroller with DSP extensions. It has been said by the Company in this regard, that being developed for low power PC-centric applications, the AVR32 UC3B Series of MCUs has Full-Speed (12 Mbps) USB 2.0 with On-The-Go (OTG) capability. On-chip SRAM ranges from 16K bytes to 32K bytes and on-chip Flash from 64K bytes to 256K bytes.

Atmel, founded in 1984, is a renowned leader in the design and manufacture of microcontrollers, advanced logic, mixed-signal, nonvolatile memory and radio frequency (RF) components. The company through influencing one of the industry's broadest intellectual property (IP) technology portfolios, has been able to provide the electronics industry with complete system solutions. It is recorded as one of the minority elite new companies who are capable of incorporating dense nonvolatile memory, logic and analog functions on a single chip. The Atmel chips are manufactured through the usage of the most advanced wafer processes that includes BiCMOS, CMOS and Silicon Germanium (SiGe) technologies. It is also found to be concentrating on consumer, industrial, security, communications, computing and automotive markets.

It has been further confirmed by the Company that the AVR32 UC3B Series makes available an extended communication capability with first-rate computational performance along with low power consumption but in a minuscule proportion. To the, the family further aims at applications that include appliance control, security systems, industrial control & automation and PC peripherals. Moreover, the new AVR32 UC3B devices deliver 72 Dhrystone MIPS (DMIPS) at 60 MHz, that is comprised of true single-cycle MACs and DSP arithmetic and consuming only 23 mA at 3.3V. With power consumption as low as 1 mW/DMIPS, UC3B Series MCUs outperform by a ratio of 3 any other available architectures offering similar features. With this, the standby power consumption of UC3B Series is just 30 micro-Amps using a single 3.3V power supply and below 15 micro-Amps when the dual power supply (1.8V/3.3V) is used.

As far as the availability and pricing has been displayed the first two devices UC3B series are meant for the sampling. The AT32UC3B0256, with OTG, is packaged in a 64-pin QFP/QFN and the AT32UC3B1256, without OTG capability, is packaged in a 48-pin QFP/QFN. The AT32UC3B0256 and AT32UC3B1256 in a QFP package are priced at US $4.96 and US $4.66 respectively in 10,000 quantities.