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 ...

Redmond, Wash.—Device programming company Data I/O Corp. now has an in-system programming system for use in automated test systems, as well as during production runs. Unlike products designed for ...

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 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 ...

I've been interested in getting into microcontroller programming lately, and I've been looking at Microchips PIC16F and PIC18F series (especially the PIC16F), and also Atmel's ATtiny and ATmega series ...

[Texane] wrote in to let us know he has implemented AVR ISP programming using a PIC microcontroller. He wrote some code for an 18F4550 that uses the STK500 standard for In System Programming. This ...

Atmel’s AVR ONE! high-end on-chip debugger for the AVR and AVR32 microcontrollers speeds up programming and supports non-intrusive observation and logging of embedded system performance. This offers ...

-- The kit allows an easy evaluation of short range wireless connectivity with IEEE802.15.4, ZigBee, 6LoWPAN, etc. Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today the availability of the AVR(R) RZ ...

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today that it has shipped its 500 Millionth AVR(R) Flash Microcontroller. Atmel introduced the AVR 8-bit Microcontroller Architecture in 1997. Over the ...

Atmel has introduced a 6-pin microcontroller. The 8bit AVR ATtiny10 has 1kbyte of flash and 32byte of SRAM in a 2x3mm SOT-23 package. Performance is claimed to be up to 12MIPS, and peripherals include ...