What is going to happen to Atmel’s 8bit AVR microcontrollers now that Microchip has bought the company? Nothing bad, is the short answer, according to Microchip’s strategic marketing manager for 8bit ...

So many different microcontroller architectures are on the market today that an embedded engineer faces a daunting task when trying to find the right one to satisfy the needs of a design. That ...

LONDON Atomthreads is an open source RTOS developed in the UK and its first release contains a port to the Atmel AVR architecture. The developer Kelvin Lawson, who is a professional embedded systems ...

The winter lineup of HackadayU courses has just been announced, get your tickets now! Spend those indoor hours leveling up your skills — on offer are classes to learn how to prototype like a ...

It is interesting to see how microprocessor architectures have gone from being a significant differentiator to being a “not important” factor. Being one of the inventors of the AVR the transition to ...

Atmel Corporation (www.atmel.com) has introduced a chipset that is intended to provide seamless migration to 802.15.4/ZigBee wireless networking for automotive and other applications based on Atmel’s ...

An in-depth look at the 8-bit AVR architecture found in ATtiny and ATmega microcontrollers, mainly from a software and programming point of view. Explore the AVR architecture using C and assembly ...

According to Atmel, they consume 1.5µA in sleep mode with full ram retention and 700nA in back-up mode. "We are excited to integrate our proven AVR picoPower technology into the new SAM4L family of ...