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 ...

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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 ...

Atmel Corporation 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 8-bit AVR family ...

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 ...