Home Entertainment

Creating New Sights and Sounds

Home entertainment systems continue to evolve in size and sophistication, delivering new levels of experiences and adventure to consumers. Home Entertainment has expanded to become a veritable indoor electronic playground for children and adults alike, with systems incorporating large-screen displays, gaming consoles, audio equipment, and docking stations. And often this entertainment empire is completely controlled and managed through a single remote control. Atmel® solutions for home entertainment help you address your most pressing design challenges, including:

Delivering innovative capabilities that entice consumers to upgrade and expand
Responding to consumer demand for energy-saving solutions
Integrating wireless and touchscreen technologies
Connecting and protecting more home entertainment products
Robust RF interference protection

Powerful, Intuitive Control for Home Entertainment

More and more home electronic products are linked to share the connection between video and audio. Atmel technology enables you to provide support for a full array of home and audio applications:

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MP3 Docking Stations Web Radio Car Stereos Headsets and Microphones	HDTV Displays Video Game Consoles Digital Picture Frames

The Atmel Advantage

At Atmel®, our goal is to surround you with great technologies to achieve the home entertainment experience that your customers expect. We also provide proven tools and libraries that can reduce cycle time and ensure high quality results.

Advanced Touchscreen Solutions: With our Atmel QTouch® library you can add capacitive touch buttons, sliders and wheels at zero additional cost. If your product uses a high-end touchscreen solution, Atmel maXTouch™ offers the industry's lowest power, highest performance single-chip touch solutions.
Advanced Audio Solutions: With the Atmel digital audio solutions, it is easy to index and play a collection of digital audio files from any storage media such as MP3 players, USB sticks, SD cards, and embedded NAND flash. Alternatively, digital music can be streamed from a remote server across Ethernet or WLAN. Atmel is also the leader in digital audio docking solutions, providing solutions to leading audio equipment manufacturers around the world. Your audio product will not be complete without an amplifier, Atmel will provide you with the highest audio quality Class D switching amplifier solutions.
Wireless Solutions: If your application requires remote control supporting RF4CE, Atmel AVR 8- and 32-bit microcontrollers supporting RF4CE, are provided. Through H&D Wireless, a valued partner, Atmel offers the industry's smallest WLAN module, complete with software drivers for wireless audio streaming. We also have Wi-Fi and Bluetooth solutions provided through our trusted partner network.
Lower Power Consumption: Long before most consumers were thinking about saving on electric bills, Atmel was developing low power consumption solutions. You can be confident that your AVR- powered applications will comply with ENERGY STAR ratings and other standards, not to mention increasing customer satisfaction with longer battery life.
High Security Hardware Authentication: Atmel offers a wide variety of secure authentication and storage solutions for seamless integration with AVR and ARM microcontrollers.
High-Computing Performance: Entertain new, more imagination designs by taking advantage of AVR with integrated DSP and ARM high-computing performance, coupled with high-end peripheral set and Flash memory technology.
Ease of Development: Our extensive software library, reference designs, and evaluation kits help you reduce development time.

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