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 ...

Atmel’s latest AVR microcontrollers, the ATmega16U4 and ATmega32U4, with USB controller and high performance analog features will be supported by their AVS Studio development environment. The Atmel ...

Now Microchip is joining the fray with a $29 board called the AVR-IOT WG that contains an 8-bit ATmega4808, a WiFi controller, and hardware-based crypto chip for authenticating with Google Cloud.

Atmel has simplified life for engineers, programmers, and product designers by including sensor-driver code in the AVR Studio 5 integrated development environment. Atmel calls these drivers "Sensors ...