Atmel MCU Wireless Solutions - Introduction

RF212 - Now supporting the Chinese standard, IEEE P802.15.4c
Atmel Corporation announces the release of the world's first RF transceiver compliant to the IEEE P802.15.4c standard for China. The AT86RF212 is tailor-made for the Chinese wireless market, but also covers the European and American ones, all in one chip.

Operation is selectable for the Chinese WPAN band from 779 to 787MHz, the European SRD band from 863 to 870 MHz, and the North-American ISM band from 902 to 928 MHz. The RF212 is a fully integrated transceiver, utilizing Direct-Sequence Spread-Spectrum techniques to offer very flexible combinations of modulation techniques and data rates.

With the industry's best link budget, the AT86RF212 is an ideal device for designing long-range, robust wireless applications. Its wide offering of data rates ensures maximum flexibility on the application side, and with the industry's lowest power consumption, it is a perfect match for AVR picoPower microcontrollers when designing wireless solutions with years of battery lifetime in mind.

For detailed description of the AT86RF212, click here.

Low-power Wireless Solutions
Wireless applications are based on three components; a microcontroller, a radio, and firmware. Atmel offers a well balanced blend of microcontrollers, transceivers and firmware for wireless applications. With certified IEEE 802.15.4, ZigBee®, and 6LoWPAN standards-based technologies your design will address the unique needs of low-cost, low-power, low data rate wireless control and sensor network applications. Atmel's high performance RF transceivers offer industry best range and robustness. Adding cutting edge technology and performance from our low power microcontrollers, Atmel provides a versatile platform for a wide range of wireless applications.

• Best RF performance
• Lowest power consumption
• Lowest system Cost
• Flexible system solution
  • Widest MCU offering
  • Widest RF offering
  • Certified hardware
  • Certified firmware

A wireless application is based on three components; microcontroller, radio and firmware. Atmel offers a well balanced blend of microcontrollers, transceivers and firmware for wireless applications. Atmel's high performance RF transceivers offer industry best range and robustness. By adding cutting edge technology and performance from the low power AVR microcontrollers, Atmel provides a versatile platform for a wide range of wireless applications.

Extreme Link Budgets
Efficient wireless applications require high performance and low power components. With Atmel's transceivers you get the undisputed best link budget in the industry today. This means the best sensitivity and longest range for your products!

• 2.4 GHz with up to 3 times the communication range
• 700/800/900 MHz with an extreme 120 dB link budget (-110 dBm receiver sensitivity/+10 dBm transmit power)

Atmel MCU Wireless Solution offers flexibility through the AVR family of 8-bit RISC microcontrollers with flash memory densities ranging from 1 KB to 256 KB, AVR32 UC3 32-bit microcontrollers, and the Atmel Smart ARM devices. With free and certified software you can easily select the preferred device suited for your design.