A Project Report On Avr Micro Controller Development System
A Project Report On Avr Micro Controller Development System
SUBMITTED BY:
Deepak Singh (12) Rishabh Jaiswal (36) Rohit Kumar Sahu (37) Vikalp Tiwari (51)
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
DECLARATION
PROJECT ABSTRACT
TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of figures
List of figures
Chapter 1
Introduction
1.1 AVR Microcontrollers 1.1.1 History
The AVR is a modified Harvard architecture 8-bit RISC single chip microcontroller which was developed by Atmel in 1996. The AVR was one of the first microcontroller families to use on-chip flash memory for program storage, as opposed to one-time programmable ROM, EPROM or EEPROM used by other microcontrollers at the time. The AVR architecture was conceived by two students at the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH) Alf-Egil Bogen and Vegard Wollan. The original AVR MCU was developed at a local ASIC house in Trondheim, Norway called Nordic VLSI at the time, now Nordic Semiconductor, where the two founders of Atmel Norway were working as students. It was known as a RISC (Micro RISC) and was available as silicon IP/building block from Nordic VLSI. When the technology was sold to Atmel from Nordic VLSI, the internal architecture was further developed by Alf and Vegard at Atmel Norway, a subsidiary of Atmel founded by the two architects. The designers worked closely with compiler writers at IAR Systems to ensure that the instruction set provided for more efficient compilation of high-level languages. Atmel says that the name AVR is not an acronym and does not stand for anything in particular. The creators of the AVR give no definitive answer as to what the term "AVR" stands for. However, it is commonly accepted that AVR stands for Alf (Egil Bogen) and Vegard (Wollan)'s Risc processor"