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new products Development tool suits a range of Atmel MCUs Atmel’s AVR ONE! high-end debugger has been developed to provide one unit for all AVR and AVR32 microcontrollers. The AVR32 microcontrollers and processors are the ﬁrst devices to be supported by AVR ONE! and will be followed by most of the tinyAVR, megaAVR and XMEGA devices during 2008. Customers will get free of charge upgrades as Atmel extends support to all AVR devices. The AVR ONE! speeds up programming and supports non-intrusive observation and logging of how the embedded system performs. This allows the software engineer a clear view of real time system behavior, without affecting or modifying the real time characteristics of the microcontroller. The AVR ONE! is a high-end JTAG and Nexus on-chip debugger that is designed to deliver accurate monitoring of system behavior in embedded systems built around AVR and AVR32 microcontrollers and application processors. Faster communication between the PC and the target microcontroller speeds up the ﬂow of debug data, and the user will notice the improved responsiveness to user input. Programming microcontrollers with large on-chip ﬂash memories will be up to 3 times faster than existing debuggers. In addition to basic programming and on-chip debugging via the traditional 4-pin JTAG port, the AVR ONE! supports debugging via the Nexus port, an 8-bit parallel port found on to monitor and modify system behavior in every part of the microcontroller without interrupting or affecting the timing of the program running in the microcontroller. The AVR ONE! can be connected live to a running application without interference. The AVR32 Nexus debug interface is connected to the AVR32 CPU’s trace port. This is a port which outputs vital statistics about CPU behavior and the software running. This real-time trace data is captured by the AVR ONE! debugger and forwarded to the PC, where the user can reconstruct the steps taken by the CPU leading up to an erroneous state from a 2 GB data buffer. This marks a breakthrough in onchip debugging, allowing for the ﬁrst time an on-chip trace port in a nonbondout version of all AVR32 microcontrollers. The AVR ONE! expands Atmel’s line-up of on-chip debug adapters, which already includes the JTAGICE mkII and the low cost AVR Dragon introduced last year. www.atmel.com all AVR32 devices. Inside the AVR32 microcontroller, the Nexus port is connected by a separate data bus to all the on-chip peripherals and memories. The separate bus allows the debugger FPGAs increase integration for portable applications Providing designers with the highest density FPGA per board area, Altera has announced the availability of 8x8 mm2 packaging (M164) for its family of 65-nm Cyclone III FPGAs. Designers of space-constrained high-volume applications in consumer, military and industrial markets can now take advantage of the combined lowest power and density leadership of the Cyclone III devices. The new 8x8 mm2 164-pin package with up to 16K logic elements (LEs) extends the Cyclone III FPGA’s high-density small-package offering 40 that already includes 14x14 mm2 256pin (U256) and 17x17 mm2 484-pin (U484) packages. Each of these packages offers the highest amount of logic and I/Os for its footprint, allowing engineers to use FPGAs in new applications, such as handheld radios, satellite phones, I/O modules, and consumer displays. Cyclone III devices consume 75 percent less power than competing FPGAs while delivering 5K to 120K LEs, up to 4 Mbits of memory and up to 288 digital signal processing (DSP) multipliers. Built on TSMC’s 65-nm lowpower process, the Cyclone III family includes devices that are qualiﬁed for commercial, industrial and extended temperatures. The smaller geometries made possible by this advanced process combined with architectural optimizations enable Cyclone III devices to deliver up to 30 percent lower total power consumption compared to 90nmbased Cyclone II devices by keeping dynamic and static power consumption to a minimum. www.altera.com APRIL 2008 | embedded systems design europe | www.embedded.com/europe 040_ESDE.indd 40 11/04/08 10:45:49 http://www.atmel.com http://www.altera.com http://www.embedded.com/europe

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Embedded Systems Design Europe - April 2008 Contents Chip Industry Confronts 'Software' Gap Wind River's VxWorks OS Part of the nEUROn UCAV Demonstrator iSuppli Cuts Electronic Equipment Forecast Study Says GigE Vision Not Mature Chip Aids Wireless Health Monitoring Kontron Reports Strong Financial Growth Xilinx Completes Virtex-5 Line-Up French Project Builds Open Platform Home Automation Group Uses Enocean Radio Layer MIPs Adds Multi-Core Option to Portfolio Cover Feature: Next Gen Programmable Chips: Why Can't Hardware Be More Like Software? Improving Productivity & Quality With Domain-Specific Modeling Efficient CRC Calculation With Minimal Memory Footprint Do-It-Yourself Linux Embedded Development Tools Hardware/Software Verification Enters the Atomic Age New Products Advertising Contacts

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