Atmel announced three 6-pin picoPower AVR microcontrollers. The ATtiny4, ATtiny5, and ATtiny9 are are pin and code compatible, offering 512bytes or 1K byte of programmable Flash memory, 32 bytes of internal SRAM, 4-channel 8-bit A/D converter (in ATtiny5), analog comparator, and a 16-bit timer with PWM. Using the AVR CPU these 6-pin tinyAVR microcontrollers can process up to 12 MIPS at 12 MHz. ATtiny4, ATtiny5, and ATtiny9 are pin and code compatible to the existing ATtiny10. The 6-pin tinyAVR microcontrollers are also pin compatible with similar devices from competitors.
All tinyAVR microcontrollers use the standard AVR microcontroller development tools. The AVR Studio integrated development environment is available free of charge on Atmel’s website. Samples are available now. Volume prices for 10k units starts at $ 0.30.
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