Atmel Corporation announced two new 32-pin tinyAVR microcontrollers. The ATtiny48 and ATtiny88 devices have 4- and 8-Kbytes of Flash memory, respectively. These AVR microcontrollers consume less than 240 uA at 1.8V and 1 MHz, and below 100 nA in power-down mode and are especially suited for power-constrained and high volume systems such as remote control, accessories and small appliances.
The new tinyAVR microcontrollers utilize Atmel’s industry leading picoPower technology that eliminates unnecessary power consumption. They have a zero power brown-out detection circuitry that can be turned off during sleep modes, a power reduction register that powers down individual peripherals, and digital input disable registers that remove leakage current on ADC input pins.
The ATtiny48/88 operate from 1.8 to 5.5 volts and feature a 10-bit ADC, SPI, I2C interface, internal temperature sensor, and have up to 12 MIPS throughput at 12 MHz. Like all the other AVR microcontrollers, the ATtiny48/88 features an on-chip debug system for easy, fast, and robust development.
All tinyAVR microcontrollers use the standard AVR microcontroller development tools. The AVR Studio® AVR integrated development environment is available free of charge on Atmel’s web site.
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