AVR

As far as microcontrollers are concerned, there are thousands of options for you to pick from. They range from the 8 bit AVRs all the way to 32 bit STM micrcontrollers. The 32 bit micrcontrollers are becoming far more popular in modern products, but 8 bit micrcontrollers remain extremely popular in hobbyist settings, especially ATMEL’s line of AVR microcontrollers. This can especially be attributed to the popularity of the arduino, which uses a wide range of AVR microcontrollers. Especially the arduino UNO, which uses the now famous atmega328p. However, microchip, which now owns ATMEL, has released a new line of AVR microcontrollers, which they call the megaAVR 0 series. This new series has a lot of improvements over the older AVR chips, and in this video we will review the changes made in the new series, and determine whether you should start using them in your own projects, because although they both share the ‘atmega’ name, they aren’t exactly the same.