MSC offers Atmel's low-power 32-bit AVR UC3L MCU

MSC offers Atmel's low-power 32-bit AVR UC3L MCU MSC Vertriebs GmbH is offering the next-generation Atmel 32-bit AVR UC3L microcontroller (MCU) with picoPower technology and embedded capacitive touch controller peripherals.

The Atmel 32-bit AVR UC3L series includes high-performance, low-power capabilities in a compact physical form factor, at 5.5 x 5.5 mm TLLGA package, to address the size constraints of portable applications. Active power consumption is reduced to 165 µA/MHz, which is a 45 percent improvement to previous generations. The controller is available with 16, 32 or 64 K bytes Flash memory.

The power saving is enabled by the Atmel picoPower low-power technology leadership that addresses all aspects of a microcontroller’s power consumption, including active operation modes as well as all sleep modes. The enabling technology innovations include peripheral SleepWalking, where peripherals can operate in extremely low-power states and make qualified decision during CPU sleep.

The UC3L series also include FlashVault code protection to allow the on-chip flash to be partially programmed and locked, creating secure on-chip storage for software intellectual property.

Additional innovative technologies, which were industry first in the UC3L series, include the interrupt eliminating Peripheral Event System, Clock Failure Protection, Spread Spectrum Clocks with fast startup times, a Frequency Meter, an RTC with Crystal Precision Tuner and calendar mode as well as a PWM output on all 36 I/O pins.

The AT32UC3L0 series is available in 48-pin QFP, QFN and TLLGA packages.