A timer is a simple counter! The input clock of microcontroller and operation of the timer is independent of the program execution.All the Atmel microcontrollers have Timers as an inbuilt peripheral.

Atmel’s picoPower AVR ATtiny10 has 1Kbytes of programmable Flash memory, and 32bytes of internal SRAM. The 6-pin device has up to 12 MIPS of processing throughput, an 8-bit A/D converter, an analog ...

The need for timing in embedded programming often exceeds the small number of available hardware timers in microcontrollers. For example, the Microchip PIC16F84A has one timer, but you can create as ...

[Q] wrote in to let us know about the AVR-Guide he’s been working on. It looks like he’s finished posting about 80% of the content he planned for in his initial draft outline. We read through several ...

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 ...

Until recently, a very common problem faced by electronic circuit designers was the difference in supply voltage standards between microcontrollers (e.g. 3.3 V) and peripheral ICs (e.g. 5 V). In order ...

Atmel(R) Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML) announced today three new 20-pin tinyAVR(R) Flash microcontroller devices with high-speed timers targeting battery chargers, sensor end-points and motor control ...