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 ...

In a recent blog post I described the new ARV Studio 5 software development tools from Atmel and the Sensors Xplained drivers that simplify writing code for several types of sensors. (See: AVR Studio ...

Engineers can attest to the problems they encounter when they connect a microcontroller to sensors. The lack of MCU-specific drivers further complicates the process and can lead to heated discussions ...

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 ...

The new JTAGICE3 supports faster in-system debug and programmer with full control of all MCU features and configurations. The new design allows the debugger to program the on-chip 256 KB flash AVR ...