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To: kjude who wrote (35872)	11/15/1997 1:27:00 AM
From: Francis Muir	Respond to of 58324

Who the heck is ATMEL? Since some may be wondering just who Atmel is, here is a talk that one of their people, the Marketing Director, is giving to the ee dept at Stanford. Speaker: Jim Panfil Director of Marketing Atmel Corporation Title: AVR Family of Microcontrollers About the Talk: There are 5 million 8 bit microcontrollers shipped every day. They are used in applications as diverse as Tamagotchi toys, air bag controllers and cellular phones. The AVR is the first new microcontroller of this class to be introduced in the past 12 years. Embedded system design objectives are more demanding than ever. There is a need more specialized functionality, higher performance and lower power consumption. Microcontrollers must be easier to program, test and alter or upgrade in the field. Advances in sub micron semiconductor process technology allow the integration of previously incompatible functions like logic, Flash program memory and EEPROM to be integrated on a single chip. This talk will describe the trade offs made in defining the new AVR microcontroller architecture. It will analyze the benefits of on chip Flash program memory, evaluate bit manipulation facilities as a method of improving speed and reducing code density and discuss the overhead associated with in system programming to revise and upload calibration data or correlation factors. We will discuss the semiconductor process technology needed to achieve the objectives of performance, code density and power consumption. Panfil worked for LSI Logic and Intel before Atmel. FIDO