Date: 16th Jun 2011
Software drivers from Atmel supporting
popular sensors in the market
Atmel Corporation has released Sensors Xplained software
drivers integrated with its recently-launched AVR Studio
5 Integrated Development Environment (IDE). The new software
drivers supports most popular sensor types used in consumer,
industrial and medical applications.
Atmel has teamed with a number of the leading sensor manufacturers
to make the necessary sensor drivers available as part of
the AVR Studio 5 development environment, including AKM,
Bosch Sensortec, Honeywell, Invensense, Kionix, and Osram
Opto Semiconductors in the initial release. Atmel said it
plans to support and release drivers for additional companies
and products over time. The driver software is available
directly from Atmel, and provides basic interface functionality
with both raw data and calibrated engineering unit outputs,
using a standard API (application programming interface)
to simplify application development. There are also a number
of higher level application examples available as library
functions both from Atmel and several of the sensor suppliers
that are optimized for the AVR architecture and provide
support for sensor fusion algorithms used in many applications.
"There is increasing demand to incorporate sensors
into a broad range of applications which makes it essential
that there be support for a wide variety of microcontrollers,"
said Adrian Woolley, marketing director for microcontrollers,
Atmel Corporation. "With Atmel Sensors Xplained software
drivers and expansion boards, our customers can now quickly
develop sensor applications with easy-to-use drivers and
ready-to-use sensor boards to significantly accelerate their
ability to rapidly bring prototype designs to market. Atmel
microcontroller solutions provide lower power and higher
performance, with more flexibility and now provide the necessary
development environment to help designers make these new
products a reality."
The Atmel Sensors Xplained software drivers and expansion
boards are designed to be plug-in compatible with all the
Xplained series microcontroller (MCU) boards for the Atmel
AVR family of MCUs. The Sensors Xplained software drivers
address core challenges of using sensors including calibration
and scaling, data conversion and interoperability for a
variety of sensor vendors. The Atmel sensor solution provides
designers with the AVR Xplained processor board and development
system, a sensors board to add onto the Xplained processor
board and the software drivers in the free Atmel AVR 5.0
Studio.
For more information visit: www.atmel.com/
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