Atmel® Corporation, the renowned organization in designing and manufacturing of microcontrollers and advanced logic announced here today of the adding up of three members belonging to its AT91SO family for the sake of accountability to its high security systems. It has been found from the versions of the Company, that these very procedures are well-matched   with the AT91SO100 secure silicon platform, that has found a prominence already in the international market though its effective and extensive utilization in markets that have need of superior security such as Electronic Transaction Terminals.

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.

From the discourses with the responsible persons of the Atmel® Corporation it has been understood tat on the basis of Atmel's ARM® SecurCore™ SC100 CPU core, the new-fangled AT91SO25, AT91SO50 and AT91SO51 play a decisive role in 256 Kbytes of EEPROM for program and data, 32 Kbytes of ROM for on chip Atmel libraries and 100 Kbytes of RAM. They are comprised of committed peripherals for instance USB, SPI, USARTs, I/O ports, magnetic stripe and smart card interfaces. These devices are found in due course to integrate strong security mechanisms so as to satisfy the Common Criteria EAL4+ certification, as well as intrusion sensors, dedicated hardware protections, real time clock and battery backup. They also have an impressive set of cryptographic features: hardware DES/TDES, AES and SHA-n, a cryptographic accelerator for asymmetric algorithms (RSA, elliptic curves, key generation) and a true random number generator.

Olivier Debelleix, the Worldwide Business Development Manager for Atmel's Secure Products Division was found as the prime person to the queries of the Press & Media. He said, "Based on the AT91SO100, already widely recognized for its performance, its integration and its very high security level, these three new chips offer the flexibility required to design systems such as high-end POS terminals or low-cost PIN Pads complying with Visa® PCI PED, health card readers or any other system requiring security and versatile communication interfaces."