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 ...

The Ubuntu Linux distribution has been ported to the cheapest and most portable platform yet: An Atmel ATmega microcontroller. Boasting a 20MHz 8-bit AVR processor, 128KB of flash storage and a ...

Since Microchip acquired Atmel, the fields of battle have fallen silent. The Crusaders have returned home, or have been driven into the sea. The great microcontroller holy war is over. As with any ...

Here is an audio spectrum analyzer project using an SG12232C GLCD module and based on Atmel ATmega8 microcontroller. The graphic LCD displays both audio waveform in real time and FFT (Fast Fourier ...

It is one of our favorite chips, and the brains behind the Arduino UNO and its clones, and it’s getting a tweak (PDF). The ATmega328 and other megaX8-series chips have undergone a subtle design change ...

Atmel Corp., which has operated a semiconductor manufacturing plant in Colorado Springs since 1989, passed into the history books Monday when it was acquired by Arizona-based Microchip Technology Inc.

Atmel has just announced that its highly anticipated maXTouch mXT224 capacitive touchscreen controller chip is now ready for production release. Atmel representatives are positively bubbling with ...

Yes, our own “breadboard compatible” 5VDC power supply is now ready for use! What is next? Next thing is the setting up of a simplest Atmega Development Board. There are many places where you can ...

Leading microcontroller and touch solutions provider Atmel CorporationATML announced the sale of its XSense touch sensor assets to UniPixel, Inc. UNXL. UniPixel has paid initial consideration in the ...