October 23, 2001
Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq:ATML) announced today the production release of the AT90SC4816R, a new ROM-based member of its market-leading AT90SC family of AVR-based secure microcontrollers for Smart Cards. Optimized for mobile telecommunications, the AT90SC4816R combines ROM program memory with Atmel's dense non-volatile memory technology and Atmel's AVR 8-bit RISC core to offer impressive performance at a very competitive price.
A significant advantage of the AT90SC4816R is that it can be used to substitute for Atmel's AT90SC3232 Flash-based microcontroller in existing systems. When flexibility and time to market are the main priorities, the Flash-based product offers the best solution; when chip unit cost becomes the main priority, production can be switched to the lower-priced AT90SC4816R. Thanks to its very small die size, the AT90SC4816R can be embedded in low-cost modules, allowing card manufacturers to achieve significant savings in their manufacturing costs.
The AT90SC4816R has 48K bytes of masked ROM, 16K bytes of EEPROM and 1.5K bytes of RAM. It is compliant with all the following mobile telecommunications specifications: ETSI GSM11.11, 11.13 and 3G TS 102 221 V3.0.0 (2000-09).
Benoit Makowka, Atmel's Marketing Manager for Mobile Telecommunications Secure ICs commented, "We are delighted to introduce this new ROM based product to our AVR family of products. Thanks to the strong family concept, firmware developers can really capitalize on their development by reusing the same code for different products, and swapping from Flash-based to ROM-based products."
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