Atmel Capacitive Touchscreen Controller Wins Embedded 2010 Special Merits Award

NUREMBERG, Germany, March 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- EMBEDDED WORLD 2010 -- Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch solutions, today announced it has received the Embedded 2010 Special Merits Award in the Hardware category. The Embedded 2010 awards are selected by a panel of four industry experts based on the products' innovative, unique and forward-looking qualities for the industry. Atmel's maXTouch(TM) mXT224 capacitive touchscreen controller was selected among nine other company products that were nominated for the Hardware, Tools and Software categories.

"Winning the Embedded 2010 Special Merits Award highlights the innovative technology behind Atmel's maXTouch capacitive touchscreen controller," said Jon Kiachian, sr. marketing director for touch products, Atmel Corporation. "Atmel's maXTouch controller makes it easier for our customers to bring multiple touches to their touchscreens for the consumer and display markets. The combination of Atmel's maXTouch superior performance, low power consumption, and patented charge transfer method of signal acquisition makes the product extremely responsive by providing real-time characteristics for demanding applications such as handwriting recognition and video games."

Atmel's maXTouch solutions provide uncompromising capacitive touch capability combined with the industry's lowest power consumption and unsurpassed configurability to exceed user interface requirements. The Atmel mXT224 is the first capacitive touchscreen solution able to support the touch of a finger, stylus or fingernails for drawing or signature capture and character recognition. It is so sensitive that it can even detect touches from a user that has gloves on. It has 224 nodes that allow it to accurately report the positions of unlimited, simultaneous touches and can completely redraw the screen every 4/1000 of a second (4 mS). The Atmel mXT224 includes a large number of nodes and fast performance to make it the world's first touchscreen solution suitable for advanced touch screen functionality, such as rejection of unintended touches, stretch/pinch and rotate gestures, handwriting and shape recognition on mobile phones, mobile Internet devices (MID) and Netbook screens surpassing 10 inches. To learn more about Atmel's touchscreen controllers, click the following link: http://www.atmel.com/products/touchscreens/default.asp

Photo

To view a photo of Atmel Representative Jon Kiachian receiving the award, please click the following link: http://www.atmel.com/pressroom/photos/embeddedaward.jpg.

About Atmel

Atmel is a worldwide leader in the design and manufacture of capacitive touch solutions, microcontrollers, advanced logic, mixed-signal, nonvolatile memory and radio frequency (RF) components. Leveraging one of the industry's broadest intellectual property (IP) technology portfolios, Atmel is able to provide the electronics industry with complete system solutions focused on consumer, industrial, security, communications, computing and automotive markets.

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