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Drivers make demanding customers for automotive manufacturers, so automotive electronics is a demanding application arena. Atmel® helps you meet industry challenge with its market-leading designs that encompass a wide range of products, from body electronics, networking and access systems, to engine, lighting and entertainment components.

Our innovative, dedicated qualified automotive products are designed to fit small footprints, consume very little power, and operate in high temperature and electromagnetic environments. Our highly integrated designs can save you significant component costs and months of development, integration, and prototype time.

To help you meet the growing and diverse needs of the automotive OEM industry, our broad product portfolio ranges from low-cost, entry level devices to advanced, highly integrated ICs with a broad range of functionalities, extensive connectivity, refined interfaces, and strong security. Our products are designed in state-of-the-art BCDMOS, BDC-on-SOI, or non-volatile CMOS technologies, and meet strict automotive qualification standards.

You can rely on Atmel with 25+ years of design experience and expertise in the automotive field. You can also rely on us to support you with extensive demonstration and evaluation kits, reference boards, software, detailed documentation, and our expert staff of application engineers.

  • Automotive Control — Our rich variety of devices—for sensor and actuator control and beyond—make it easy for you to design and build the application that best meets your customers' needs.
  • Automotive Microcontrollers — Our wide range of cost-effective, top-quality products with fully functional design kits support your designs, whether they are large, complex electronic systems for automotive safety or body control, or smaller, independent applications.
  • Broadcast Radio — Backed by more than 30 years’ experience in designing broadcast radio solutions, as well as support for industry standards (ISO9001 and ISO16949), our solutions are ideal for the quality and performance requirements of the car radio market.
  • CAN/VAN Networking — Our wide range of solutions for controller area network (CAN) networking includes our AVR® 8-bit RISC microcontrollers and transceivers. Our Flash-based microcontrollers are compliant with V2.0A and V2.0B of the CAN protocol, and offer flexible in-system programming capabilities.
  • Car Access — Our devices support access applications including remote keyless entry (RKE) and passive entry/go (PEG) systems, so you can deliver the convenience as well as security that drivers expect.
  • Drivers/High-Temperature ICs — With our devices, you can meet the stringent requirements of "under the hood" systems. We understand that high temperatures, strong mechanical vibration and fluctuating electromagnetic fields require products based on decades of good architecture, meticulous manufacturing and robust testing.
  • GPS — The Atmel car infotainment portfolio includes the widely used Atmel ANTARIS™ GPS chipset, which offers high accuracy and AECQ-100 qualification. Leading global car manufacturers, fleet management operators and telematics specialists count on the robustness and reliability of our GPS devices.
  • Industrial Control — Our devices are equipped to deliver the communication features and intelligence required at the industrial plant floor and beyond, providing high performance, low power consumption, support for high-speed wired and wireless communication, and resistance to water, dust, moisture and extreme temperatures.
  • Li-Ion Battery Management — Lithium-Ion (Li-Ion) batteries tend to overheat when overcharged or during deep discharge, so our devices are equipped to provide protection and safety features that are critical in high cell count Li-Ion battery applications.
  • LIN Networking — Our devices support the low-cost local interconnect networking (LIN) systems that are used throughout automobiles for comfort-related, powertrain, sensor and actuator applications.