What is Atmel AVR?

AVR is the name of the family of microcontrollers designed by the Atmel company and introduced to the market in 1996. They designed these microcontrollers with the RISC command set on the modified Harvard architecture. Microcontrollers are 8-Bit and, as an exception, it produced in 32-bit models in a period. It is one of the most widely used microcontrollers in many embedded systems and especially in hobby circuits, and forms the basis of Arduino....

September 23, 2022 ·  1 min ·  189 words

What is Arduino Optiboot?

Hi all!! Introducing Optiboot! When you look at the photo below, you can see “What is Optiboot? but this is the place..” 😁 Yes, the part you see is called Optiboot. So what is this Optiboot? It is a small and fast bootloader for Arduino and other Atmel AVR chips. Arduino owes much of its ease of use to its bootloader. The bootloader is software built into the Atmega microcontroller that is responsible for making it easy to upload a new draft from the Arduino IDE to the microcontroller’s memory....

September 23, 2022 ·  2 min ·  318 words