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Atmel North American Company Profiles
Key Agreements
• Atmel licensed “Oak” and “Pine” DSP core logic and development tools from DSP Group in 1996.
• Atmel-ES2 licensed from Advanced RISC Machines in mid-1995, the ARM7DMI 32-bit RISC processor core
and associated software tools. The company will develop standard Flash-based MCUs using this architecture.
• Atmel and Paradigm Technology formed an alliance in May 1995 concerning Paradigm's SRAM products.
Atmel provides manufacturing capacity for Paradigm's SRAMs in exchange for product rights. Atmel also
purchased approximately 19 percent of Paradigm. The companies are developing new-generation SRAMs
with speeds below 8ns.
• Atmel has a cross-licensing and product exchange agreement with Philips Semiconductors covering several of
each company's proprietary PLDs.
• Atmel established an agreement with Wireless Logic Inc. of Hong Kong in 1994 that calls for the
codevelopment and joint marketing of special-purpose DSP and microcontroller chipsets for the spreadspectrum
wireless communications market.
• Fuji Film Microdevices and Atmel are collaborating in the development of flash memory-based products such as
ATA-interface memory cards.
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