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 ...

If you are a software engineer like me, you probably love to write every line of source code yourself. You know from experience that true quality source code can only be achieved by sweating for weeks ...

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 ...

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 ...