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- Analog Devices, Inc. announced that Yamaha Corporation is using ADI’s Blackfin processor and three ICs from the Advantiv advanced television solutions portfolio to drive high-end functionality, flexibility and intuitive operation in three audio video receivers (AVRs) from its 2008 line. In addition to providing and integrating Blackfin and Advantiv advanced television solutions components that enable true-to-life audio and video, ADI collaborated with Yamaha to engineer additional turnkey functions including HDMI (High-Definition Multimedia Interface) repeater capability and a Blackfin-controlled user interface.

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Beijing, China, and San Jose, CA, March 7, 2008 . . . Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML),announced today new AVR® microcontrollers combining USB controller and high performance analog features. The ATmega16U4 and ATmega32U4 reduce system cost in battery powered devices such as gaming accessories.
Battery powered devices can take advantage of being connected to a USB port to recharge. However, modern batteries require sophisticated algorithms to accelerate and optimize charging, while USB brings further constraints on the battery charging since it is limited both in the voltage and the maximum current it can provide.

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San Jose, CA, March 5, 2008 . . . Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), announced today that its AT32UC3 32-bit Flash microcontrollers have won the 2008 Embedded Award. As a part of the Embedded World exhibition and conference organized every year in Nuremberg, Germany, the outstanding technical innovations in embedded technologies are selected for awards by an independent jury of experts.

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The kit allows an easy evaluation of short range wireless connectivity with IEEE802.15.4, ZigBee, 6LoWPAN, etc.

San Jose, CA, February 27, 2008 . . . Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML)announced today the availability of the AVR® RZ Raven evaluation kit that provides designers a unique ready-to-use development platform in the rapidly growing low power wireless market for the 2.4GHz ISM frequency band available worldwide.

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