Atmel has a line of products for the emerging digital power metering market. Automated meter reading and de-regulation of electricity distribution requires kWh meters to process the metering data and communicate that with host computers over a network. Only new digital meters are capable of doing this. And this all must be realized with minimum or no additional expense to the end customer. Atmel has the latest semiconductor manufacturing technologies and the system level integration capabilities to make this happen.

Atmel's kWh meter chips include high-performance 16-bit Sigma-Delta A/D converters that are essential to achieve a high accuracy of the measurement and powerful DSP algorithms developed for kWh measurement.