Hot off the wires (needless to say, ArduPilot will be part of this. 32-bit, 100Mhz, yum!):
Atmel and Arduino Collaborate on
AVR and ARM-based Development Platforms
- See the latest platforms based on Atmel products in the Atmel-sponsored Arduino Pavilion located in Queens, New York, September 17 and 18
- Listen to Atmel Open Source Community Manager Eric Weddington present “Open Source AVR Toolchain Past, Present and Future” at 2:00 pm PT on September 17 and 18 in the ‘Make Live Stage’ at the Maker Faire
San Jose, CA, September 16, 2011 – Atmel® Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch solutions, and Arduino, the leading open-source electronics prototyping platform and community, announced they are collaborating on several development boards usingAtmel AVR and ARM-based microcontroller (MCU) products. The new easy-to-use Arduino boards use several Atmel products including the Cortex-M3-based SAM3U MCU, ATmega32U4 and AVR UC3 MCUs.
Arduino is an open-source, community-based prototyping platform that offers accessible hardware and well-documented software to electronics enthusiasts. The community encompasses artists, designers, students, kids, hobbyists and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments. Committed to offering the shortest learning curve, Arduino has developed several boards featuring Atmel’s AVR and ARM-based MCUs leveraging its complete, flexible software and hardware environments.
Atmel and Arduino will be demonstrating several platforms in the Atmel-sponsored Arduino Pavilion including:
- Arduino Leonardo. Based on the Atmel ATmega32U4, it is a low-cost Arduino board which includes a simpler circuit as the Arduino UNO board. The software on the board includes a USB driver that can simulate a mouse, keyboard and serial port. In addition, the bootloader includes a serial port and USB mass storage driver.
- Arduino Due. The newest board to Arduino’s collection, the Arduino Due is based on an Atmel Cortex-M3-based microcontroller, also known as the Atmel SAM3U ARM-based MCU. This MCU can run up to 96MHz and will be available to the Arduino community by the end of 2011.
- Arduino WiFi. This board is for hobbyists interested in WiFi applications. Arduino WiFi includes an add-on module using the Atmel AVR MCU and an H&D Wireless module that provides developers with a powerful WiFi interface.
“Arduino is a grass roots community that has been working with Atmel AVR products since its inception,” said Massimo Banzi, founder of the Arduino Community. “We are thrilled to use Atmel’s ARM-based products for the first time in our latest development platforms. The new boards, based on the Atmel SAM3U ARM-based MCUs, include a complete, flexible eco-system that provides our community of developers with access to the most sophisticated, yet easy-to-use platforms for designing innovative and fun electronics devices,” Banzi concluded.
“We are excited to be a sponsor of the Arduino Pavilion at the Maker Faire,” said Alf Egil-Bogen, chief marketing officer, Atmel Corporation. “The Arduino community reaches a large group of university and hobbyist communities focused on developing new designs. We’ve seen this community grow from grass roots to a well-established organization of true enthusiasts and hobbyists. We are excited to work with Arduino on a variety of different projects in the future.”
Comments
The main problem as I see it is that Arduino's main focus is to introducing micro-controllers to the masses. And they have been doing a very good job at that. But at the same time this focus on beginners means they have different needs compared to the hardware requirements of a autopilot project.
Some minor word choice edits for site policy; thank you for the constructive discussion, personally I value a solid dialog, and often those with dissenting views are more valuable. Thank you for keeping it civil and not allowing different views from becoming personal attacks.
@bGatti: not sure if you got my point. The Internet is just the way it occurs. The interest of people in the same subject around that initiative, their interest on contribute, learn and teach that is the real connection.
There is a lot of other initiatives out there (maybe even based on the Arduino idea). Some of those has everything you are talking about. If you are on the other level or thought... attack Arduino probably isn't productive. Just pick up another one and be happy (and share with us).
I wounder if the APM developers are still using the Arduino environment.I still think RTOS is a good way to go.
I like Arduino due to the fact it connects all kind of people of many areas. This is a great value.
About the choice on keep going with ATMEL... this kind of relationship is very interesting because it should grant the investment which will keep those chips available to buy in a long term.
Furthermore, sometimes is better and safe going in small steps than trying big jumps.
Looking forward to the wave to jump in. Go ARMduino! =)
@bGatti - Hey, I was agreeing with you - I just thought it was worth mentioning that a lot of people (mainly the people the whole Arduino project was originally targeted at - artists, true code novices) will never get past making some things go blinkety-blink...and it works for that. What REALLY has me thinking about this is will they try to transition somehow to a real tool chain or will they try to stick with some beefed up version of Processing. It will be interesting to see how it plays out. I honed my professional programming skills (that's sarcasm for those that have seen my code) on Samsung S3C2450 400 MHz ARM 9 chips so reverting back to something like the Atmel 328P was frustrating at first.
@Luke Olson - I also agree. a good step forward.
@bGatti - No, really, don't hold back, tell us how you really feel....lol - JK, I have to agree, it has seemed like steps backwards to be using the Atmel chips, but I DO love their simplicity. You have got to admit, religion or not, the ATmel-duino guys have brought a lot of people into the fold that might otherwise have dismissed it all as just to "difficult." To me the interesting development will be to see how this all works with Processing or whatever other IDE it ends up on - the tool chain is the key if you ask me - It will have to be free / Open Source, and user friendly so who knows what that will look like.
@ bGatti
:) Yes Arduino is a Religion ,today is a good brand ... :) But i start to develop board 20 years ago and use a 80c166 micro controller , with EPROM flash don't exist.
My first board was DIY , double layer with photo incision techinque and i put a wire in every hole and solder it on top and botton layer :) So I think that Arduino is ok for entry level user but not for the advanced developer ...
C++ is the key .. GCC is the true religion ... without it Arduino don't exist :)And don't exist linux ,too :)
Best
Roberto
Just this week I heard about Raspberry Pi, and now this... great news!
wow so maybe we will jump to something like the
AT32UC3A0512
The high-performance, low-power 32-bit AVR RISC-based microcontroller combines 512KB flash, 64KB SRAM, 10/100 ethernet MAC, full-speed (12 Mbps) USB 2.0 with embedded host capability, I2S, and a built-in audio D/A converter.
This device features SRAM/SDRAM external bus interface and achieves 91 Dhrystone MIPS (DMIPS) at 66MHz while consuming only 40mA at 3.3V.
The Peripheral Direct Memory Access (PDCA) controller transfers data between peripherals and memories without processor involvement, drastically reducing processing with continuous large data streams within the MCU.
Or the
AVR XMEGA
Real-time Performance, High Integration and Ultra-low Power
Atmel® AVR® XMEGA® microcontrollers deliver the best possible combination of real-time performance, high integration and low power consumption for 8/16-bit MCU applications.
Highlights
This is exciting ! can you imagine Jason's latest version on such powerful hardware! I know that there is already a port to 32 bits already done so this is just the perfect timing for the next hardware jump!
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