Atmel and Redpine have announced a collaboration on low power 802.11n Wi-Fi. This allows easy connectivity to the Atmel AVR XMEGA, AVR UC3, SAM3 and SAM9 MCU families. Two options were presented, the Connect-io-n modules, with integrated TCP/IP stack, and the n-Link module, for high-performance with a host-managed stack. UART, SPI and SDIO interfacers, with up to 65Mbps of WiFi data throughput were presented.
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Energy Micro, the Norwegian ARM licensee, have expanded their Gecko Cortex-M3 product line with 100 new processors. These provide a range of features, from a huge 1MB of memory on the Giant Gecko family, to a tiny 400nA back-up power mode for power saving devices.
