Atmel is building an ecosystem around its AVR microcontrollers which includes a set of tools which will be compatible with both 8- and 32-bit AVR microcontrollers.
The design ecosystem also includes source code for 400 design applications developed by Atmel with some third party support.
The intention is to expand the number and range of designs through third party relationships.
The new Studio 5 is an enhanced version of the firm's existing IDE with support for all 8- and 32-bit AVR MCUs..
According to Haakon Skar, marketing director for AVR microcontrollers at Atmel, the new tool set will make editing and debugging source code easier with a feature which assists code writing.
"It is an intelligent editor which analyses the code written by the designer and will correct syntax errors and even make code suggestions," said Skar.
In developing integrated tool and creating an ecosystem around it, Atmel has abandoned its support for the Eclipse open source environment.
"Eclispe has not delivered on its promises," said Skar.
"We have seen complexity and quality issues with Eclipse code and so decided for the future it would make sense to use a better platform," said Skar.
There is also an AVR Software Framework source code library, a GNU C/C++ Compiler, a powerful simulator, and a front-end visualizer for all of Atmel's AVR programmers and in-circuit debuggers.
There is a source code library for 8-bit AVR Xmega and 32-bit AVR UC3 MCUs with over 400 complete application examples and a full set of drivers for on-chip peripherals and external comonents, wired and wireless communication stacks, audio decoding, graphics rendering, and fixed and floating point math libraries.
"Our intention is to create an open platform for IP with code for inclusion in designs," said Skar.