Mar-26th-2008
Now you have the basic hardware tools, its time to setup the software
environment.The main software you will need are:
AVR Studio – A GUI IDE for AVR(www.atmel.com, http://www.atmel.com/dyn/resources/prod_documents/AVRStudio4.13SP2.exe)
WinAVR – a free C compiler for AVRs (http://winavr.sourceforge.net/download.html)
PonyProg – Serial Device Programmer (www.lancos.com)
After downloading them install them in your [...]
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Mar-14th-2008
Now you know what tools are required for MCU based development. And you are familiar with their uses. Now time to start some real development.To cover these parts you must have some basic knowledge and tools of electroniccircuit fabrication. So now, let us start with the most important tool the programmer.
Making a programmer.
There are many [...]
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Mar-14th-2008
Selecting a Micro
There are two family of microcontroller that are extremely popular among hobbyist. The “PIC” series from Microchip and “AVR” series from Atmel. Both these chips are wonder of modern microelectronics. PIC had ruled for a long time but now AVR is also getting in serious competition.
>>Speed and ease of use.
I prefer AVRs because [...]
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Mar-13th-2008
Just what is a microcontroller?
To get you understand quickly I define a microcontroller as a single chip computer.Yes
it is a full blown computer in its own. It has a C.P.U., RAM,some amount of EEPROM(for
secondary storage i.e. permanent storage without power), many on-chip peripherals(Timer,Serial
communication, Analogue to Digital converters etc.).If you don't understand, no [...]
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