触摸及微控制器解决方案的领导厂商爱特梅尔公司(Atmel®Corporation)宣布继续实现公司为ARM市场提供创新性解决方案的承诺，推出广受欢迎的集成开发环境(IDE) 的最新版本Atmel Studio 6，支持基于爱特梅尔32位ARM® Cortex™-M 系列与爱特梅尔8/32位AVR®系列的微处理器(MCU)。新产品的推出，使得多达10万人的AVR客户和Cortex-M应用工程师和设计人员首次能够在单一无缝开发环境中，获取开发和调试爱特梅尔微控制器所需的全部工具。

爱特梅尔Studio 6：提供1,000个ARM和AVR设计演示简化设计过程        　　爱特梅尔Studio 6是免费的IDE，提供了专业质量的开发工具，同时配有爱特梅尔软件框架(先前称为AVR软件框架)，因而显著降低了创建新设计的成本。利用爱特梅尔软件框架，设计人员可以获得经验证的大型免费源代码库 — 包括近1000个设计样例。 利用这些代码，设计工程师能够为其项目节省大量的底层源代码的编写工作，最大限度地加快上市时间并保持高质量解决方案。这种软件框架包括一整套用于片上外设和外部器件的驱动程序、有线和无线通信协议栈、音频解码、图形演示，以及定点和浮点数学库。针对爱特梅尔基于ARM处理器的微控制器产品，软件库为Cortex微控制器软件接口标准(CMSIS)提供全面支持。爱特梅尔Studio 6可支持大约300种爱特梅尔微控制器。

更快的产品开发周期，配合更低的片上闪存成本与速度更快的MCU，正在推动更多的设计工程师以C和C++语言编写代码，而不是使用汇编代码。爱特梅尔Studio 6使得工程师能够轻易编写、构建和调试其C/C++和汇编代码，还能够以无缝方式集成具备辅助代码编写功能的编辑器、用于快速创建新项目的向导工具、一个GNU C/C++编译器、一个功能强大的仿真器，以及适用于爱特梅尔所有Cortex-M系列和AVR处理器的编程器与在线调试器的前端可视化工具。目前用于AVR设计的模拟器通过提供准确的AVR MCU模型来加快应用开发。仿真器不仅为CPU和中断进行仿真，而且还可以为片上I/O模块仿真，无需实际的硬件即可进行全面的应用开发。

对于系统内编程和调试来说，IDE可以无缝连接范围广泛的ARM和AVR调试器和编程器，包括JTAGICE3、AVR ONE!和SAM-ICE。 通过全面的调试视图，工程师可以获取CPU和外设的透视图，实现简单的代码开发和调试。

爱特梅尔Studio 6完全集成爱特梅尔QTouch® Composer (先前称为QTouch Studio)。 因此，对于具有触摸用户界面的MCU应用，开发人员无需在两种开发环境之间切换。爱特梅尔Studio 6无缝集成了所需的工具，包括在Studio 6中编辑代码，以及在QTouch Composer中调节触摸设计所需的工具，从而简化了设计过程。

Atmel Corporation, a leader in microcontroller (MCU) and touch technology solutions, further simplified the software design process for embedded MCU designers with the introduction of Atmel Gallery, an app store for development tools and embedded software that evolves Atmel Studio 6 into a comprehensive integrated development platform (IDP). Atmel is the first company to bring the convenience of an app store to the embedded MCU community.

While MCU designers are under increasing pressure to develop highly differentiated, innovative and complex products in far less time than ever before, engineering resources and project times are not being increased. Growingly, software is used to differentiate end-customer products, from smartphones to industrial controls. Yet, traditional software development environments have not evolved in any meaningful way to accommodate the new realities of the designers’ world. To shorten the design cycles for their differentiated products, designers today need a comprehensive IDP that provides easy access to all the necessary tools and embedded software they require, such as compilers, advanced debugging and analysis tools, real-time-operating systems and communication stacks.

Atmel Gallery is built directly into the Atmel Studio 6 development environment and is also available via the web at gallery.atmel.com to provide easy access to free and commercial extensions for Atmel Studio including development tools such as compilers, peripheral configuration, code editing and code analysis. To support the development of Atmel MCUs, solutions are available now through the Atmel Gallery from third-party partners including HP Info Tech, Keil (a division of ARM Holdings), Percepio, Red Lizard and Symnum Systems to help shorten their design time.

For instance, FreeRTOS, a popular real-time embedded operating system (OS), is now integrated into the Atmel Software Framework and available through Atmel Gallery to give  designers easy access to use real-time OS capabilities in their MCU designs. Atmel will continue to include additional partner solutions into Atmel Gallery, including RTOS solutions such as Micrium’s popular μC/OS real-time kernels and μC/Probe data visualization tool and rapid prototyping tools such as Proteus VSM from Labcenter Electronics for hardware/software co-simulation, with many more to come.

Atmel also launched Atmel Spaces, a cloud-based collaboration workspace for hosting software and hardware projects targeting Atmel MCUs. Atmel Spaces makes it easy for the MCU design community to collaborate, resulting in a rapidly growing community of developed tools and embedded software for Atmel MCUs. Available at spaces.atmel.com, Atmel Spaces provides all the tools to make collaborative development easy, including access control, version control system, bug and feature trackers, mailing lists and wikis. Projects hosted on Atmel Spaces are accessible directly from Studio 6.

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.