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To: stpeter who wrote (13415)	5/18/2004 11:05:32 AM
From: tech101	Respond to of 13565

Atmel's secureAVR(TM) Architecture Selected for the Next Generation Vitale(TM) French National Health Card Tuesday May 18, 8:01 am ET ROUSSET, France, May 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML - News) is proud to announce today that its secureAVR(TM) architecture has been selected as one of the two silicon platforms for the development contract of the next generation Vitale(TM) French National Health Card, recently awarded to SAGEM by the GIE SESAM-VITALE. Atmel's secureAVR architecture is based on an 8-bit/16-bit RISC core specifically tailored to host highly secure applications like banking or government ones. Many of Atmel's secure microcontrollers based on this architecture have already been granted Common Criteria certification to EAL4+ augmented to AVA-VLA.4. This vulnerability assessment corresponds to today's highest known proven resistance against any security attack. In addition, Atmel's secureAVR architecture features the new AdvX(TM) crypto accelerator for an increased PKI performance and a significant security enhancement. Atmel's secureAVR architecture was selected by SAGEM as being ideally suited to meet the requirements in terms of a high performance secure platform at a very competitive price. In addition, Atmel currently supplies secure microcontrollers for the first generation Vitale card which has already been issued to tens of millions French people. After last year's contract award for the development of the new French EMV DDA "CB" banking card, this new success marks for Atmel the second fruitful partnership with SAGEM. Olivier Debelleix, Atmel's Smart Card IC Marketing Manager for Government Applications, said "We are very pleased to start a new partnership with SAGEM for this very prestigious contract. Atmel's expertise to design highly secure Smart Card ICs has once again been rewarded. Our corporate commitment is to serve Government markets with our best products."

To: stpeter who wrote (13415)	5/18/2004 11:06:58 AM
From: tech101	Respond to of 13565

Atmel and u-blox Introduce Innovative New 'Aiding' Functionality to Antaris GPS Receiver to Speed Up Time to First Fix in Under Four Seconds Tuesday May 18, 8:30 am ET Users Will Experience Dramatic Improvement in Time to First Fix at No Additional Cost HEILBRONN, Germany and THALWIL, Switzerland, May 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML - News) and u-blox announced today that the ANTARIS GPS technology, jointly developed by Atmel and u-blox, now features an innovative 'aiding' functionality, which makes time to first fix within four seconds a reality. Aiding is just one of several features in the ANTARIS receivers which provide accurate, reliable and robust navigation anywhere and anytime. The ANTARIS-based GPS receivers provide an aiding solution for applications requiring instant position fixes, for example the E911/E112 emergency caller localization in mobile phones, location-based services without waiting time, and un-tethered asset tracking devices. Aiding information, supplied from an external source, for example a base station, reduces the time to first accurate fix to just four seconds. The aiding parameters provide ephemeris, almanac, rough initial position, clock drift and time, satellite status and, if available, a precise time synchronization signal. With this information, the GPS receiver has immediate knowledge of the satellites to search and track. The ANTARIS technology jointly developed by Atmel and u-blox excel in robust performance in any static and dynamic environment, particularly in the most challenging metropolitan areas. It provides -150 dBm sensitivity without compromising navigation accuracy, advanced WAAS/EGNOS support, excellent acquisition performance such as 34 s cold start, excellent multipath suppression, 4 Hz update rate, low power consumption and enables system solutions with minimum bill-of-material costs. "Since aiding functionality is becoming a strong request in the mobile GPS market, more and more customers will enjoy the benefits of Atmel's and u-blox' leading edge technology," stated Marcus Boehringer, GPS Product Manager at Atmel. "The performance and flexibility of the ANTARIS technology makes it to one of the best GPS solutions in the market today." "The innovation leaps like instant positioning by aiding are proof of the excellent capabilities of u-blox and Atmel, and are beneficial to many applications without additional cost," says Thomas Seiler, CEO of u-blox. "Also our customers can protect their investment using the ANTARIS GPS receiver platform and profit from the continuously upgraded performance with additional feature sets." The aiding feature is available in the u-blox ANTARIS GPS receiver macro components TIM-LP, TIM-LF and TIM-LC as well as on the ANTARIS GPS chipset available from Atmel without additional cost. Samples of the GPS chip set (receiver IC ATR0600 in QFN28 package measuring only 5 x 5 mm; baseband IC ATR0620 in a 9 x 9 mm 100-pin BGA package; and LNA IC ATR0610 in a very small 1.6 mm x 2.0 mm PLLP6 package) are available now. Various support packages comprising extensive documentation and a highly sophisticated low-power reference design are also available.