element14 announces new agreement with Atmel

element14 (formerly Farnell) has announced a new agreement with Atmel Corporation that expands its inventory to include a comprehensive range of microcontrollers, capacitive touch products, advanced logic, mixed signal, non-volatile memory products and radiofrequency components for segments such as automotive, home and industrial automation, lighting, metering, mobile electronics and PC peripherals.

The portfolio includes products necessary for designer to design, debug and deploy new solutions, including Atmel AVR 8- and 32-bit microcontrollers, ARM processor-based solutions, wireless microcontroller products, 8051 architecture products, development kits and programming tools and software.

Atmel Xplained is a series of small, easy-to-use evaluation kits for 8- and 32-bit AVR/ARM microcontrollers. It consists of a series of low-cost MCU boards for evaluation and demonstration of feature and capabilities of different Atmel microcontroller families. A rich selection of example projects and code drivers is provided in Atmel Studio. Code functionality is easily added by pulling in additional drivers and libraries from the Atmel Software Framework.