Home Appliances

Home Appliances

Reliable, Robust Operation

More than ever, consumers have high expectations for home appliances. They demand sophisticated, feature-rich products that are reliable and easy to use. To meet these needs, developers of white goods need technology that provides:

  • Advanced motor control features for safe, quiet operation
  • Green, power-efficient technology, as well as energy measurement and control through connectivity with smart metering networks
  • Advanced human machine interface (HMI) support through touchscreen technology for a rich, easy user experience
  • Flexible, compatible connectivity to integrate devices with the outside world
  • Standards-based certification to enable reliable, high-quality solutions

Advanced, Energy-Efficient Solutions

Atmel® offers a wide range of solutions that are ideal for a variety of household appliances:


Refrigeration Cooking Washing
Refrigeration
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  • Freezers
  • Refrigerators
  • Stoves
  • Ovens
  • Cooking Plates
  • Microwaves
  • Washing Machines
  • Clothes Dryers
  • Dishwashers
Motor Control    
Industrial Drives
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  • BLDC, AC and Stepper motors
    



The Atmel Advantage

Atmel is uniquely qualified to provide advanced, efficient solutions that are ideal for use in home appliances. We offer a broad range of Atmel AVR® microcontrollers that are a perfect fit for many white goods applications. Atmel also enables you to create more innovative products by taking full advantage of our world class performance, high end peripherals, and Flash memory. For feature-rich HMI support, the Atmel industry-leading touch technology delivers unbeatable performance and versatility.

  • Extensive Portfolio: the Atmel AVR 8-, 8/16- and 32-bit AVR microcontrollers can fit a wide range of products.
  • Power Efficient: More than ten years focus on power efficiency enables AVR microcontrollers to more easily comply with standards such as Energy Star and European Regulations for stand-by current.
  • Advanced Touch Solutions: Atmel has the industry's most robust touch sensor technology, delivering industry-leading performance through our Atmel maXTouch™ solutions. With our Atmel QTouch® library, you can add capacitive touch buttons, wheels and sliders at zero additional cost. Standards-based wireless support (802.15.4 ZigBee® Standard covering 2.4Ghz and sub-giga ) lets your product support smart metering for energy control in the home.
  • Solid Security: Atmel offers easy to integrate secure authentication solutions to meet the needs of the smart meter and smart grid era, and enables a variety of key management strategies.
  • Wireless Connectivity: Wi-Fi and Bluetooth® are provided by partners, H&D Wireless, to enable the industry's smallest WLAN module, complete with software drivers for wireless audio streaming.

Reference Designs and Resources

  • Atmel EVK1100: The EVK1100 is an evaluation kit and development system for the Atmel AVR UC3 A Series 32-bit microcontroller. Includes USB connectivity.
  • Atmel EVK1101: The EVK1101 is an evaluation kit and development system for the Atmel AVR UC3 B Series 32-bit microcontroller. Includes USB connectivity.
  • Atmel EVK1104: The AVR32 EVK1104 is an evaluation kit for the Atmel AT32UC3A3256 which combines the Atmel state-of-art AVR 32-bit microcontrollers with an unrivalled selection of communication interface like USB microcontroller including On-The-Go functionality, SDcard, NAND flash with ECC and stereo 16-bit DAC.
  • Atmel EVK1105: The EVK1105 is an evaluation kit for the Atmel AT32UC3A0512 which demonstrates the Atmel state-of-the-art AVR 32-bit microcontrollers in Hi-Fi audio decoding and streaming applications. Includes USB connectivity.
  • Atmel AT88CK109STK3: Evaluation kit for Atmel CryptoAuthentication™. Enables easy security integration with AVR and ARM.

RF Kits

  • Atmel ATAVRRZ502 IEEE 802.15.4/ZigBee RF Accessory Kit: The RZ502 RF accessory kit enables point to point links development, debugging and demonstration.
  • Atmel AVRRZ541 AVR Z-Link 2.4 GHz Packet Sniffer Kit: The RZ541 Packet Sniffer Kit is the ideal platform for analyzing 802.15.4 and ZigBee wireless networks.
  • Atmel ATAVRRZRAVEN 2.4 GHz Evaluation and Starter Kit: The RZRAVEN 2.4 GHz Evaluation and Starter Kit enables development, debugging and demonstration of a wide range of low power wireless applications including IEEE 802.15.4, 6LoWPAN and ZigBee networks.
  • Atmel ATmega128RFA1 Evaluation Kit: The ATmega128RFA1 evaluation kit enables development, debugging and demonstration of IEEE 802.15.4 compliant wireless applications such as ZigBee and 6LoWPAN.
  • Atmel AVR Raven: The AVR Raven has a 2.4 GHz transceiver, on board picoPower AVR application processors and LCD display.
  • Atmel RZUSBstick: The AVR RZUSBSTICK consists of one USB stick with a 2.4 GHz transceiver and USB connection to your PC.

ZigBit Wireless modules


RF Design Software

  • Atmel 6LoWPAN: the Atmel Route Under MAC (RUM) with support for IPv6 and 6LoWPAN is a highly flexible stack solution for low power and low cost wireless sensor network applications.
  • Atmel BitCloud: ZigBee PRO BitCloud is a full-featured, 2nd generation embedded software stack from Atmel. The stack provides a software development platform for reliable, scalable, and secure wireless applications running on Atmel wireless platforms.
  • Atmel IEEE 802.15.4 MAC: The IEEE standard 802.15.4 defines the protocol and compatible interconnection for data communication using low data rate, low power and low complexity, short-range radio frequency (RF) transmissions in a wireless personal area network (WPAN). Atmel developed the MAC stack software for different target platforms (microcontroller and board) and RF transceivers.
  • Atmel RF4Control - ZigBee RF4CE: The RF4Control software stack is the Atmel ZigBee RF4CE compliant platform.

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