ATTiny85 board A First Look and review
https://www.electronics-lab.com/attiny85-board-first-look-review/
educ8s.tv wanted to take a look at this tiny board for a long time. It is very small size, it is low cost and it uses a different processor than the Arduino boards. It uses the ATTiny 85 microcontroller chip, which can operate at a frequency up to 20Mhz. It has 8Kb of flash memory, […]
Atmel SAM D09 Development board
https://www.electronics-lab.com/atmel-sam-d09-development-board/
Dan Watson has designed a development board for the Atmel SAM D09 microcontroller: The Atmel SAM D series of 32-bit microcontrollers includes several devices, each with a long list of features at great prices. Perhaps the best known of the series in the maker community is the SAM D21 due to its use on the […]
ATtiny10 Mini Breakout Board
https://www.electronics-lab.com/attiny10-mini-breakout-board/
Dan Watson has designed a tiny breakout board for the Atmel ATtiny10. The board includes a bypass capacitor, a power LED and a user LED: This breakout board is for the ATtiny10 microcontroller. The PCB is 0.25×0.325″ and uses 0.050″ header pins. The board could actually be made smaller, but I ran into the minimum […]
mavroOBD – Arduino based OBD port module
https://www.electronics-lab.com/mavroobd-arduino-based-obd-port-module/
Danny Mavromatis has designed an Arduino based OBD port module using Atmel 328P MCU and Microchip MCP2515 CAN Bus controller with SPI interface and MCP2551 CAN transceiver. The goal of this project it to create an Arduino based OBD port module that can be used to enhance a vehicles capabilites. For example, if you want […]
Microchip to Buy Atmel for Nearly $3.6 Billion
https://www.electronics-lab.com/microchip-to-buy-atmel-for-nearly-3-6-billion/
Microchip Technology to Buy Atmel for Nearly $3.6 Billion @ The New York Times. Microchip Technology agreed to acquire a fellow chipmaker, the Atmel Corporation, for about $3.6 billion, part of a wave of mergers and acquisitions within the semiconductor industry. Chip makers have been combining to cut costs and build scale for their […]
Rad tolerant megaAVR MCU for space & avionics applications
https://www.electronics-lab.com/rad-tolerant-megaavr-mcu-for-space-avionics-applications/
by Graham Prophet @ edn-europe.com: Atmel ATmegaS128 AVR microcontrollers are now produced in space-grade quality, including latch-up immunity, ceramic packaging and extended temperature range for next-generation of space applications. AtmegaS128 – the first µC Rad Tolerant device for Atmel – delivers full wafer lot traceability, 64-lead ceramic package (CQFP), space screening, space qualification according to QML […]
Arduino WiFi Shield 101 is on sale
https://www.electronics-lab.com/arduino-wifi-shield-101-is-on-sale/
by Zoe Romano @ blog.arduino.cc: We are excited to announce that Arduino Wifi Shield 101 developed with Atmel is now available for purchase on the Arduino Store US (49.90$). Arduino WiFi Shield 101 is a powerful IoT shield with crypto-authentication that connects your Arduino or Genuino board to the internet wirelessly. Connecting it to a WiFi network […]
AC energy metering board using an Atmel 90E24 energy metering chip
https://www.electronics-lab.com/ac-energy-metering-board-using-an-atmel-90e24-energy-metering-chip/
Steve Rodgers writes: Here’s my latest project. Its an AC energy metering board using an Atmel 90E24 energy metering chip. The board can either take an ESP8266-12 and run a native C application, or the ESP8266-12 can be omitted, and an external microcontroller can be used to talk to the Atmel 90E24 energy metering chip. […]
Atmel’s latest processor uses less juice
https://www.electronics-lab.com/atmels-latest-processor-uses-less-juice/
by Martin Cooke @ elektormagazine.com: Atmel has announced a new series of Atmel | SMART ARM® Cortex®-A5-based microprocessors (MPUs). Firmly targeted at IoT applications they are said to deliver the world’s lowest power consumption for all MPUs in their class. They deliver sub 200 µA in retention mode with context preserved, 30 µs ultra-fast wake-up and […]
Atmega8 Development Board
https://www.electronics-lab.com/atmega8-development-board-2/
Atmega8 Development Board provides a very simple and cost effective platform for prototyping solution. The compact design provides connection to all the pins of the microcontroller for the user. Prototyping solution available for 28-pin ATmega series AVR microcontroller from ATMEL All the three ports available to the user via standard 10 pin box header with […]