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August 27, 2004 - for immediate release:

WMB-USA
Versatile Microcontroller
Board Has Radio Link
Pittsford, NY. WMB-USA
is a new wireless controller board which uses
Atmega8535-16
- one of the latest, fastest Atmel Mega chips, running at 16 MHz and achieving
almost 16 MIPS. The built-in serial RF link has variable power from 1 to 10 mW,
with selectable data speeds. All of the parameters at the PC end can be easily
modified with the configuration software supplied free with the board.
The combination of high speed and seamless wireless communication
via your PC or Laptop make the radio micro board particularly well suited for
the development of low cost wireless control, mobile robots and data logging
applications. At 16 MIPS, it is many times faster than PIC solutions, and there
are many compilers available that are suitable for this board, the easiest to
use is BASCOM AVR – a demo version of this and BASCOM Basic is supplied free,
which compiles to machine code, so there’s no loss in speed. Individual
applications can easily be developed in Basic or C.
WMB-USA is only 84 x 70 x 20(H) mm
in size and accepts any input voltage from 6 – 35V, with polarity inversion
protection too – and 750mA is available for peripheral electronics needs. Four
8-bit I/O ports and one serial port make the board extremely versatile in terms
of control and I/O capability.
WMB-USA Features
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ATMEGA8535 (Atmel AVR series,
16 MHz (16 MIPS)) 8 Kbyte ISP flash, 512 bytes SRAM, 512 bytes EEPROM, three
Timers, ADC 8ch, USART, Four PWM Channels, RTC, WDT with Internal RC
Oscillator and more
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Pre-assembled board
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ISP port
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ISP download indicating LED
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32 I/O port pins
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Reset button
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Free Windows
BASIC/C compilers
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ISP downloader
(Optional)
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Supplied with
PC Radio Link software