It’s entirely possible to do your coding in vim or emacs, hammering out hotkeys to drive the interface and bring your code to life. While working in such a way has its charms, it can be confronting to ...

Microchip has released the MPLAB X Integrated Development Environment (IDE) version 5.05, which beta supports the majority of AVR microcontrollers (MCUs). This release will allow designers who ...

Whether you are creating a small Internet appliance, some hardware instrumentation, data loggers or an army of autonomous robots to do your bidding, in numerous situations you need the flexibility of ...

Wouldn’t it be nice if there was an AVR microcontroller with USB device support built in so you would not need a separate programmer or serial link? Well in fact there are quite a few of them, and ...

Atmel has introduced an AVR applications processor designed for Linux-based embedded designs. Atmel provides a free of charge port of the Linux operating system for the AVR32 AP7 family. The ...

Linux has two alternatives for IDE support, with different supported hardware lists and development histories. From LWN,net, here's an under-the-hood look at both. Linux has two alternatives for IDE ...