Mobile Electronics

Mobile Electronics

In Touch With a New Level of Imagination

Today's mobile products are changing the way people consume information, socialize, conduct business, and purchase products. Major technology revolutions have completely changed the landscape for mobile devices. To meet the needs of increasingly mobile customers, designers require solutions that offer:

  • Efficient power management to support portable devices on the move
  • Fast response time for nimble operation
  • Highly integrated design for small footprint and minimal BOM
  • Support for intuitive touchscreen interfaces
  • Secure hardware authentication of accessories

Extending Mobility with Touch, Power, and Security

From high-performance touchscreens to industry-leading low-power consumption to cryptographic battery authentication, Atmel® is your source for technology that supports new levels of imagination in mobile electronics.


Mobile Phones and
Mobile Internet Devices 		Portable Game Consoles Automotive GPS
Mobile Phones and Mobile Internet Devices
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Cameras Netbooks PDAs
Cameras
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Portable Audio Players    
Portable Audio Players
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The Atmel Advantage

The Atmel advanced technology supports your ability to expand possibilities for a wide range of mobile products, taking advantage of continual performance breakthroughs in touchscreen technology, lower-power consumption, better signal-to-noise ratio, single-chip touch solutions, rigorous security, and more:

  • Advanced Touchscreen Solutions: Our advanced capacitive touch solutions offer the industry's lowest power, highest performance single-chip touch solutions. With capacitive technology that spans small to large screens, Atmel is the natural choice for advanced operating systems like Android™, Linux, and Windows™. From filtering unintended touches to supporting unlimited touches, stylus, fingernail, and gloves, Atmel maXTouch™ controllers provide a whole new experience for users of mobile products.
  • Small Footprint: Based on the Atmel patented charge transfer technology, maXTouch controllers combine all aspects of advanced touch sensing onto a Single-chip — total PCB is 7 x 7mm, including discrete components.
  • Lower Power Consumption: maXTouch controllers feature extremely low current consumption (<1.8 mW in "touch-ready" state and startup time is < 10 ms from idle). Atmel picoPower® technology provides power-saving modes to conserve power while offering abundant performance.
  • High Security Hardware Authentication: Software-only security solutions are notoriously weak. Atmel provides low-cost, high-security hardware authentication solutions, including the ability to integrate security with Atmel AVR® and ARM. Atmel CryptoAuthentication™ is the first authentication chip family using the SHA-256 hash algorithm, the latest U.S. government-recommended algorithm for superior algorithm security, to authenticate accessories, battery packs, or any replaceable item that contains a power source.
  • Responsive: Response time is a critical success factor in the user experience. With the ability to scan the touchscreen sensor every 4/1000 of a second, a data report rate of >250Hz can be sustained. Atmel maXTouch™ is designed to support the most response-sensitive applications, including video games and handwriting recognition.
  • Robust: Atmel maXTouch is environmentally robust, so you can confidently design cameras and cell phones for harsh weather conditions.
  • Range of AVR and ARM microcontrollers: Atmel provides 8, 8/16, and 32-bit AVR and 32-bit ARM microcontrollers optimized for low power and 1.8V operation. Engineers can save time and money by taking advantage of the Atmel touch library for standard microcontrollers and easy to use, low-cost tools.
  • Highly Integrated Power Management: Atmel provides optimized solution for AT91 application processors, including integrated DC/DC converters, low dropout regulators, real-time clock, and audio codec — all controlled through industry standard serial interfaces.

Enabling Technologies and Functions