Atmel Releases Studio 7 Development Environment and Atmel START Web Platform - Software Configuration and Generation Tool

Original author: Agnes Toan
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With increased productivity and ease of use, Atmel Studio 7 significantly accelerates the development of applications based on Atmel | SMART and AVR microcontrollers and is suitable for both professional engineers and hobbyists.

Acting as a connecting link from the initial idea to launching the final product on the market, and complementing the Studio 7 environment, Atmel START platform is a graphical web interface that allows developers to configure software components and drivers, compile source code, use demo applications and basic projects, taking your productivity to a new level.

Atmel Corporation, a leading provider of microcontrollers and sensor solutions, has announced the release of Atmel Studio 7- a full-featured, free integrated development environment (IDE) for systems based on Atmel microcontrollers | SMART and AVR. In addition, the company announced the Atmel START platform , a new, intuitive graphical interface for developing and configuring embedded applications, allowing developers to create unique software solutions.

The ever-increasing complexity and system requirements of embedded applications are forcing engineers to resort more and more to the use of integrated design environments in order to get a more intelligent, productive, and convenient development tool. Built on the latest version of Microsoft Visual Studio Shell, the Atmel Studio 7 environment significantly reduces the overall design time, allowing you to significantly increase development and debugging efficiency, due to its easy-to-use user interface, and more quickly respond to modern requirements of the consumer and industrial electronics market. Atmel Studio 7 also offers a powerful real-time visualization of system performance and power consumption data to better optimize performance and power consumption.

For the community of radio enthusiasts and inventors working with the Arduino platform, Studio 7 offers the opportunity to port their sketches created in the Arduino environment to C ++ projects and easily transfer them to the professional Studio 7. Atmel company continues to support independent developers all the way from the idea to market launch of the final product .

With the rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT) market and the advent of billions of devices expected by 2020, high-quality, highly integrated build-in software is becoming a key element in creating reliable communication solutions based on modern communication and security standards. Atmel's announced Atmel START platform is an online tool that helps developers easily and quickly integrate core software blocks and focus on creating their own applications.

The Atmel START graphical web interface allows the user to select the desired software components and configure them to work with the Atmel extensive debug board family or their own system. Developers can create software platforms that include low-level drivers, middleware, real-time operating system (RTOS), high-level network protocol stacks, and more. In addition, Atmel START supports graphical configuration of the pin assignment table and clock system. A configurable software package can be downloaded to any supported development environment, including Atmel Studio 7, IAR Embedded Workbench, and Keil µVision. Atmel START is an exclusively online application that does not require pre-installation, and the content available for download will always be the latest version.

Atmel studio 7


Easier to use and more productive than ever.
Atmel Studio 7 is a global update of the industry's best integrated design environment (IDE) and includes a number of significant changes and additions:
  • Updated Visual Studio Shell to version 2015, with full support for Windows 10
  • Ability to import Arduino sketches as C ++ projects
  • Enhanced context-sensitive help system allows you to view technical documentation directly from Studio
  • Modular installer (allows you to download and install only the necessary components for the user)
  • Full support for all the latest Atmel microcontrollers, including Bluetooth Low Energy devices

The new Atmel Studio 7 can be installed in parallel with the already installed Studio 6.2, provided that the two versions are installed in different directories. Nevertheless, the manufacturer strongly recommends updating the existing version to the latest, as it contains a number of important additions and corrections. Existing projects are 100% compatible with Studio 7.

The Atmel Studio 7 integrated development environment is available for download at: http://www.atmel.com/tools/ATMELSTUDIO.aspx



Atmel start


Atmel START is a new tool that offers users an intuitive graphical interface for configuring and linking embedded application code, low-level drivers, middleware, demo applications, and, in the future, base projects.

Unlike Studio 7, the Atmel START platform is a fully web-based application and does not require the installation of any components. Go to the Atmel START application page: http://start.atmel.com

Atmel START allows users to immediately start developing applications, and using a convenient graphical environment, it is simple and elegant to select, assemble and load the necessary software components into one of Atmel's debug boards or own system.

In addition, Atmel START supports a graphical interface for pin configuration for AVR microcontrollers, and a clock system for ARM microcontrollers of the Atmel | SMART

At any time during the configuration process, the final code corresponding to the current settings can be viewed by the user directly in the browser.

Atmel START is abstracted from a specific design environment. As soon as all software components are configured, the user can create a project for a specific development environment. Currently, it is possible to create projects for the Atmel Studio IDE, IAR Embedded Workbench and ARM / Keil MDK.


Supported Microcontrollers

Currently, the Atmel START platform supports the following microcontroller families and debug boards:

New microcontrollers and debug boards will be added regularly in future releases.

Atmel START code

The program code created in Atmel START is based on the 4th version of the Atmel Software Framework (ASFv4) library. ASFv4 is a global architectural update to the ASF library to optimize runtime, size, and code interpretation. For this reason, ASFv4 code is not 100% compatible with previous versions of the ASF library, including any programs created in the ASF Wizard, which is part of Atmel Studio. Previous ASF versions will be supported until Atmel expires on support for products released under this architecture, but further software development will focus on ASFv4 and Atmel START

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