Here we are using an Arduino UNO board to program the Atmega 328PU chip. UNO board is acting as an ISP (In System Programming) programmer to program the chip on a bread board or on a PCB. This method ...

Atmel has just announced that its highly anticipated maXTouch mXT224 capacitive touchscreen controller chip is now ready for production release. Atmel representatives are positively bubbling with ...

This includes chips from ATtiny 8pin chips through the 100pin ATmega2560 used on Arduino Mega. Supports alternate serial ports, CPU frequencies and baud rates. Additional support for AVR-USB-MCUs of ...

The chip also introduces other enhancements. Compared with Arduino’s previous-generation chip, the amount of onboard SRAM cache in the Uno R4 has been increased from 2 kilobytes to 32 kilobytes.

The acquisition of Atmel by Microchip has been approved by Atmel’s stockholders, which completes the takeover from a financial point of view. The next step is to integrate Atmel into Microchip. How ...

Arduino.org (Arduino Srl) has launched Arduino UNO WiFi board, bringing Arduino (Atmel ATMega328P MCU) and ESP8266 together, and adding WiFi to the popular Arduino UNO board, while keeping all ...

Arduino LLC, the leading open-source hardware platform in the maker and education community and Atmel Corporation, announced the latest development board, Arduino Zero. Arduino Zero is a simple, ...

In a move that could bring faster wireless capabilities to gadgets and Arduino boards, chip maker Atmel is buying wireless chip maker Newport Media for US$140 million.