Many companies have switched to the open source Eclipse platform instead of pushing their own proprietary IDE. Atmel decided to take a different approach for its 8- and 32-bit AVR microcontrollers. It ...

In a recent blog post I described the new ARV Studio 5 software development tools from Atmel and the Sensors Xplained drivers that simplify writing code for several types of sensors. (See: AVR Studio ...

The project illustrates the use of AVR ISP to develop software in an AVR Studio 4 environment to directly program chips. There are some sites that are populated with simplified version of AVR ISP ...

Atmel Studio 6, the latest version of the mcu specialist's integrated development environment has been unveiled at this year's Embedded World, Nuremberg. The new version now supports both Atmel 32bit ...

We love looking at hardcore electronics projects with a beefy microcontroller and hundreds, if not thousands, of lines of code at its center. But everyone needs to get there somehow. This tutorial ...

I am a crappy software coder when it comes down to it. I didn’t pay attention when everything went object oriented and my roots were always assembly language and Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS) ...

Almost all AVR microcontrollers have built-in Electrically Eraseable Programmable Read Only Memory (EEPROM).The advantage of EEPROM is that even when the microcontroller is turned off, data stored in ...