Atmel maXTouch Controller Empowers Touch For Sharp SH8128U Smartphone in China

San Jose, CA, December 13, 2010 – Atmel® Corporation (NASDAQ: ATML), a leader in microcontroller and touch solutions, today announced that Sharp® Corporation has selected Atmel’s maXTouch(TM) mXT224 touch controller to power the SH8128U smartphone. Atmel’s maXTouch solution will offer Sharp SH8128U smartphone users the ability to reject unintended touches, more precise touch performance, and better battery life for an overall better user experience. Available in the China market today, the new Sharp smartphone runs on Tapas OS–an operating system based on Android that is optimized for the Chinese Network. The Sharp SH8128U smartphone with a 3.5-inch 480 x 800 pixels WVGA touchscreen display is available through China Telecom. This smartphone also includes Bluetooth®, WLAN, microSD card slot and a 5-megapixel autofocus camera with flash.

“We selected the Atmel maXTouch controller for its touch accuracy and low-power consumption to enable longer battery life,” said Shigenobu Yanagiuchi, group deputy general manager of Communication Systems Group, Sharp Corporation. “These features, including the unlimited touches and ability to reject unintended touches, offer our Sharp SH8128U smartphone users an overall better experience. In addition, Atmel maXTouch is one of the few touch solutions in the market with extreme touch precision. We believe these touch features, along with our packaged options, enable us to bring a very competitive smartphone to the China market.”

The Atmel maXTouch devices support an unlimited number of touches to greatly enhance the user experience. In addition, Atmel maXTouch devices offer smartphones, tablets, Netbooks, mobile Internet devices and other application users advanced touch functionality which include built-in gestures and the ability to ignore unintentional touches to make the user interface more intuitive, satisfying and reliable.

“We are excited the Atmel maXTouch controller has helped quickly bring the first Tapas OS-based smartphone to market,” said Jon Kiachian, senior director of touch marketing, Atmel Corpoation. “The Sharp SH8128U is an excellent smartphone for the Chinese market. Atmel maXTouch technology will continue to power a number of applications from smartphones to tablets, PCs, notebooks and mobile Internet device touch screens for the worldwide market.”

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About Atmel maXTouch Technology

Atmel maXTouch technology provides best-in-class configurability to exceed today’s user interface requirements. Advanced touchscreen functionality includes unlimited touches and rejection of unintended touches; stretch/pinch and rotate gestures; handwriting and shape recognition, including face detection on mobile phones; grip suppression and palm rejection on MIDs and Netbook screens.

To learn more about Atmel maXTouch technology, visit the Atmel website at: http://www.atmel.com/products/touchscreen or visit the Atmel YouTube Channel at: www.atmel.com/youtube. Follow Atmel on Facebook at www.atmel.com/facebook or on Twitter atwww.atmel.com/twitter.

About Atmel

Atmel Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) is a worldwide leader in the design and manufacture of microcontrollers, capacitive touch solutions, advanced logic, mixed-signal, nonvolatile memory and radio frequency (RF) components. Leveraging one of the industry’s broadest intellectual property (IP) technology portfolios, Atmel is able to provide the electronics industry with complete system solutions focused on industrial, consumer, communications, computing and automotive markets.

About Sharp

Sharp Corporation is a worldwide developer of innovative products and core technologies that play a key role in shaping the future of electronics. As a leader in liquid crystal displays (LCDs) and digital technologies, Sharp offers one of the broadest and most advanced lines of consumer electronics, information products and electronic components, while also creating new network businesses.

For more information, please visit Sharp’s website at http://sharp-world.com/index.html.
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Jasper Introduces Intelligent Proof Kits For Faster, More Accurate Verification of SoC Interface Protocols

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Dec. 14, 2010 – Jasper Design Automation, provider of advanced formal technology solutions, today introduced Intelligent Proof Kits for accelerated certification of advanced SoC interconnect protocols. Jasper Intelligent Proof Kits encapsulate critical behaviors for popular protocols such as ARM’s AMBA, letting users quickly configure designs to the standard or adapt them to their own custom configuration. Intelligent Proof Kits are optimized for high-level verification with Jasper’s ActiveDesign™ and JasperGold® formal verification, and designers benefit from these kits especially in combination with Jasper’s unique Visualize technology.

“The next evolutionary step for Proof Kits is to encompass more intelligence, more plug-and-play functionality, more automation and more flexibility,” said Lawrence Loh, Jasper Vice President of Worldwide Applications Engineering. “We work very closely with our partners to ensure Jasper’s Intelligent Proof Kits match the protocol specs precisely. In addition, Jasper Proof Kits are easily comprehensible by users, so they can be adapted for proprietary extensions to standard protocols.”

Users can deploy Intelligent Proof Kits from early in the design cycle, all the way through verification. Automated features allow for rapid integration into the design. Users can visualize selected properties and analyze timing diagrams to understand property behaviors, and cross-reference to the specifications through ActiveDesign, and the design protocol properties can then be seamlessly proven in JasperGold formal verification.

Availability

Jasper Intelligent Proof Kits ship unencrypted with original source code to facilitate user customization and insights into the protocols themselves. Jasper is initially rolling out Intelligent Proof Kits for AMBA 3 and AMBA 4, followed closely by DFI, DDR and LPDDR
versions.

About Jasper Design Automation

Jasper delivers industry-leading EDA software solutions for semiconductor design, verification, and reuse, based on the state-of-the-art formal technology. Customers include worldwide leaders in wireless, consumer, computing, and networking electronics, with over 150 successful chip deployments. Jasper, headquartered in Mountain View, California, is privately held, with offices and distributors in North America, South America, Europe, and Asia. Visit www.jasper-da.com to reduce risks; increase design, verification and reuse productivity; and accelerate time to market.

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