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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The project illustrates the use of AVR ISP to develop software in an AVR Studio 4 environment to directly program chips. There are some sites that are populated with simplified version of AVR ISP ...

I am a crappy software coder when it comes down to it. I didn’t pay attention when everything went object oriented and my roots were always assembly language and Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS) ...

Atmel Studio 6, the latest version of the mcu specialist's integrated development environment has been unveiled at this year's Embedded World, Nuremberg. The new version now supports both Atmel 32bit ...