In the last installment of our tutorial series we built a simple circuit on a breadboard and programmed an ATmega168 to make it run. That proves that you know how to follow directions, but the eureka ...

If you have worked with, or plan to use, Atmel's AVR Studio 4 or AVR32 Studio software you're in for a nice surprise. The company has just released its free AVR Studio 5 set of development tools that ...

It’s assumed that you have procured one USBasp Programmer from your trusted component vendor! Connecting the programmer to your computer comprises of two steps. First step is the physical connection ...

Microchip has introduced the next generation of its MPLAB X Integrated Development Environment (IDE) which supports designs based on its AVR microcontrollers. Microchip has introduced the next ...

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 ...