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To: Bald Man from Mars who wrote (8794)	8/24/1998 9:29:00 AM
From: Bipin Prasad	Respond to of 13565

Atmel Receives Dolby Certification for Multi-Channel Digital Decoder SAN JOSE, Calif., Aug. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Atmel Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML - news) announced today its certification from Dolby Laboratories for a single-chip Dolby(R) Digital AC-3(R) 5.1 channel audio decoder to support Dolby Digital surround applications. The certified audio-processing chip is Atmel's first multi-channel digital decoder in a series of planned multimedia products out of Atmel's newly acquired Multimedia & Communications business unit. Richard Bisset, Product Marketing Director for Atmel Multimedia & Communications states, ''It is very exciting to have received this certification from Dolby Laboratories. This first chip was designed as a core to be used for Dolby certification. Parallel to this effort, Atmel has been working very closely with customers to define features and requirements that will be added as peripherals to this core. To allow these customers and other high-volume potential customers to evaluate the performance and audio quality of our Dolby Digital decoder, we have made available a complete PC-based development system for this part.'' Atmel's complete digital decoder, the AT76C2XX, is expected to be introduced later in 1998 and will be based on the certified Dolby Digital decoder core that uses a high-performance 24-bit DSP with architecture optimized for high-quality audio data. The device will integrate all the program code and data memory required onto a single chip, eliminating the need for external SRAM and therefore minimizing system costs. Founded in 1984, Atmel Corporation is headquartered in San Jose, California with principal manufacturing facilities in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Nantes and Rousset, France and Heilbronn, Germany. Atmel designs, develops, manufactures and markets on a worldwide basis semiconductors, including nonvolatile and embedded memory, logic, analog, microcontroller products and system-level integration (SLI) solutions using advanced CMOS, BiCMOS, BiPolar and SiGe process technologies. Atmel product and financial information can be retrieved from its Fax-on-Demand service. In North America call 800-292-8635. Internationally from a fax phone, 408-441-0732. Requests may be sent via e-mail to literature@atmel.com or by visiting Atmel's website at atmel.com.