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Friday, March 07, 2008

dioVision auctions off licenses for the Chinese market

- Groundbreaking display technology for the Chinese mass market

Oberraden (ANTARA News/PRNewswire-AsiaNet) - Effective immediately, dioVision will auction off licenses for dioVision play for the domestic Chinese market. dioVision play is a completely new and flexible display technology that makes the presentation space come "alive". In combination with LCD, SED and OLED developments, as well as partially and inter-coupled LED panels or projection technology, dioVision play turns cell phones, navigation devices, monitors, television sets and advertising displays into actively controllable elements. The positions of the screen surfaces can be infinitely modified to create, for instance, room depth (similar to 3D, stereoscopy) or to make adjustments to a wide variety of lighting conditions possible. Now through March 28, 2008, dioVision is auctioning off licenses for dioVision play to be mass marketed in China. The minimum bid is EUR 3 million.

dioVison play allows the creation of stage, panoramic, window and room effects through realistic simulations. The screen is aligned with the perspective of the viewer. In addition to familiar flat views, dioVision play accommodates numerous other presentation forms on a single device. The display palette range includes: convex images, images slanted towards the back or front, to the right or left, flat
presentations aimed towards to the top or bottom, screened and concave presentations, and video with an interior bend. The presentation formats can also be blended. As a result, advertising messages can be dynamically pulled into the foreground or actively follow the viewer. An impressive 28 individual claims were accepted as absolutely new inventions within the patent award process. The commercial applicability of all 28 has been documented.

Bidders who want to acquire the licenses for the Chinese market are required to contact the following address no later than March 28, 2008:

dioVision (R)
Oliver Heine
Bismarckstrasse 39
D-56587 Oberraden, Germany
Telephone: + 49(0)2634-940-626
Telefax: + 49(0)2634-5268
Internet: http://www.diovision.de
E-mail: licensee@diovision.de
Address for patent research:
Patent application number (application number): PCT/DE 2006
001628,
http://www.wipo.int
Press Agency:
leanpress
Rolf E. Sprengel
D-56470 Bad Marienberg, Germany
Telephone: +49(0)2661-98-18-39
Telefax: +49(0)2661-91-65-27
Internet: http://www.leanpress.de
E-mail: rolf.sprengel@leanpress.de SOURCE dioVision
/CONTACT: Oliver Heine of dioVision, +49(0)2634-940-626,
Telefax: +49(0)2634-5268, licensee@diovision.de; Rolf E.
Sprengel of leanpress, +49(0)2661-98-18-39, Telefax:
+49(0)2661-91-65-27, rolf.sprengel@leanpress.de/
/Web site: http://www.diovision.de
http://www.wipo.int
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Monday, March 03, 2008

Atmel introduces an AVR-based 2.4 GHz wireless evaluation platform

Atmel Introduces an AVR-based 2.4 GHz Wireless Evaluation and Development Platform at $99

San Jose, California (ANTARA News/PRNewswire-AsiaNet) - The kit allows an easy evaluation of short range wireless connectivity with IEEE802.15.4, ZigBee, 6LoWPAN, etc.

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today the availability of the AVR(R) RZ Raven evaluation kit that provides designers a unique ready-to-use development platform in the rapidly growing low power wireless market for the 2.4GHz ISM frequency band available worldwide.

The kit utilizes the AVR picoPower(TM) technology in combination with the superior RF performance offered by the AT86RF230 2.4 GHz ISM transceiver.

The RZ Raven kit comprises two Raven boards, one USB Stick and a selection of firmware application and software that will dramatically reduce time to market for designers considering short range wireless ISM band applications based on IEEE802.15.4(TM), ZigBee(R) or 6LoWPAN.

The Raven board can be used as a multi application wireless node with a LCD graphical user interface. It has two AVR picoPower microcontrollers: an ATmega1284 P that can be used to control RF application stacks, and an ATmega3290 P that controls the display and user interfaces.

The Raven contains a custom LCD display, a 5 position joystick, a microphone and a speaker allowing the evaluation of a variety of user interactions that are appropriate in the target wireless applications.

To support application development the following functionalities are available: graphical user interface, communication ports, ATmega1284 P port pins available on
headers, on-board temperature sensor, voltage sensor, relay driver, boot loader and ISP support for programming.

The USB stick can serve as a PC gateway to the wireless network, or as the hardware platform for wireless protocol analyzer. It is based on the AT90USB1287 AVR microcontroller and the AT86RF230 transceiver.

The firmware provided includes low level drivers and application stacks enabling simple point to point communication, IEEE 802.15.4 compliant solutions, and more complex applications based on ZigBee and 6LoWPAN. Updated source code, libraries and documentation for the applications are available from the Atmel web site. PC software is also provided, including a demo and a management suite for setup, configuration and management of wireless networks.

Key features include wireless protocol analyzer and Over-The-Air upgrade (OTA).
"Customers selecting the AVR Wireless platform get a flexible solution with a wide selection of microcontrollers tailored for any wireless application," said Magnus Pedersen, Director of AVR Product Marketing.

"Combining the superior RF performance and the extremely low power consumption of picoPower technology, Atmel provides an ideal platform for the rapidly growing market of low power wireless devices demanding years of life on a single battery."

The AT86RF230 offers industry best RF performance with a link budget of 104 dB and gives up to 3 times the range of competitor radios. This results in an outdoor range of up to 700 m with the high gain PCB antenna used on the Raven board. Current consumption in active mode is only 15 mA and down to 20 nA in sleep mode.

AVR picoPower devices consume as little as 340 uA in active mode at 1.8V running from the internal RC oscillator at 1 MHz. In power-save mode it is 500 nA with a real time counter running, and 100 nA in power-down mode. picoPower AVRs are pin-, performance-, and code-compatible with existing AVR microcontrollers giving designers flexible hardware options for small, medium sized and complex wireless networks.

The Raven board and the USB Stick holds FCC and ETSI certification.
Availability and Pricing The new kit is available now at a resale price of US$99. Ordering code is: ATAVRRZRAVEN.

About Atmel

Atmel is a worldwide leader in the design and manufacture of microcontrollers, 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 consumer, industrial, security, communications, computing and automotive markets.

(C) 2008 Atmel Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Atmel(R), logo and combinations thereof, AVR(R) and others, are registered trademarks, picoPower(TM) and others are trademarks of Atmel Corporation or its subsidiaries. Other terms and product names may be trademarks of others.

Information: AVR RZ Raven information can be retrieved at: http://www.atmel.com/dyn/products/tools_card.asp?tool_id=4291

Product information on Atmel's AVR can be retrieved at http://www.atmel.com/avr

Press Contacts:
Philippe Faure, Marketing Communications Director --
Microcontrollers Tel: +33 2 40 18 18 87,
Email: philippe.faure@atmel.com
Helen Perlegos, Public Relations
Tel: (+1) 408 487-2963,
Email: hperlegos@atmel.com
SOURCE: Atmel Corporation
CONTACT: Philippe Faure, Marketing Communications Director
-- Microcontrollers, +33 2 40 18 18 87,
philippe.faure@atmel.com,
or Helen Perlegos, Public Relations, +1-408-487-2963,
hperlegos@atmel.com, both of Atmel Corporation
Web site: http://www.atmel.com

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