Binary compatibility with the standard 8051 instruction set allows designers to easily migrate from multi ... at the same MIPS performance level," said Manish Vadher, Atmel's Marketing Director.

Atmel claims its single-cycle 8051-based microcontroller ... Binary compatibility with the standard 8051 instruction set is maintained so that designs can be upgraded from multi-clock cycle 8051 ...

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today that it has shipped its 500 Millionth AVR(R) Flash Microcontroller. Atmel introduced the AVR 8-bit Microcontroller Architecture in 1997.