The Atmel Automotive Commitment
Automotive electronics are a demanding application, encompassing a wide range of products, from body electronics, engine components, and access systems to lighting and entertainment components. They must support small designs and offer a high level of integration, to fit the limited space available in automotive environments. To meet the diverse needs of a variety of automotive applications, developers need solutions that offer:
- Compliance with strict automotive qualification demands, including industry
standards and automotive-qualified fabs - Flexible interface options for a variety of HMI capabilities
- Standards-based connectivity for intelligent networked solutions
- Protection and compatibility for high-voltage products, including robust electromagnetic compatibility (EMC); electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection; and OEM approvals
- Resistance to high temperatures for trouble-free operation in automotive environments
- Maximum safety for automobile access
- Low power consumption for maximum efficiency
A Complete Set of Solutions for Automobiles
Atmel® provides a broad product portfolio for automotive applications that meet the strict automotive quality demands and that make vehicles more safe, economical and convenient. Our solutions include:
| Automotive Control | Battery Management | Car Access |
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| Infotainment | Networking | Microcontrollers |
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The Atmel Advantage
Atmel has demonstrated its strong commitment to the automotive market. Our company has more than 25 years of automotive electronics design expertise and is a market leader in several automotive areas. We offer a broad scope of automotive-dedicated technologies such as BCDMOS, BCD-on-SOI and non-volatile CMOS, and automotive- qualified fabs (ISO 9001:2000, ISO TS 16949:2002, ISO 14001:2004).
- Extensive Portfolio: The Atmel extensive portfolio ranges from car radio and navigation devices, ICs for standard body electronics, including high-temperature, LIN/CAN and motor driver ICs, solutions for car access systems, RKE/immobilizer and key fobs to our Atmel AVR® automotive microcontrollers, memories, capacitive touch and customer-specific ICs.
- Advanced Touch Solutions: From the proximity sensor for keyless door entry to the touchscreen of the GPS system, touch interfaces give the driver and passengers a sense of luxury, quality, and differentiation. With the industry's most comprehensive portfolio, Atmel provides a touch solution for virtually any automotive microcontroller.
- Development Support: Design-ins are supported by our application engineers, demonstration and evaluation kits, reference boards, software and detailed documentation.
