AVR Microcontrollers reach 150 degrees Celsius operation temperature

July 24th, 2006, Atmel announced the industry first 8-bit RISC Flash microcontroller to be qualified for operation up to +150 degrees Celsius, allowing designers to distribute intelligence and control functions directly into gearboxes, engine sensors and actuators, transfer cases and turbochargers.of automotives.

The ATmega88 has an embedded 8-Kbyte Flash program memory and 512-byte EEPROM, a variable gain amplifier, a 10-bit analog-to-digital converter, a fast analog comparator, and an on-chip calibrated 8 MHz RC oscillator, Power-on-Reset, Brown-out-Detector and a dedicated watchdog  oscillator

The ATmega88 150 degree-compliant samples are available now in 32-pin QFN package. Production will start in 1Q 2007.