Rainbow Electronics Atmega169L - Manual (Page 4)

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ATmega169V/L
2514A–AVR–08/02
The AVR core combines a rich instruction set with 32 general purpose working registers.
All the 32 registers are directly connected to the Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU), allowing
two independent registers to be accessed in one single instruction executed in one clock
cycle. The resulting architecture is more code efficient while achieving throughputs up to
ten times faster than conventional CISC microcontrollers.
The ATmega169 provides the following features: 16K bytes of In-System Programmable
Flash with Read-While-Write capabilities, 512 bytes EEPROM, 1K byte SRAM,
53 general purpose I/O lines and one input line, 32 general purpose working registers, a
JTAG interface for Boundary-scan, On-chip Debugging support and programming, a
complete On-chip LCD controller with internal step-up voltage, three flexible
Timer/Counters with compare modes, internal and external interrupts, a serial program-
mable USART, Universal Serial Interface with Start Condition Detector, an 8-channel,
10-bit ADC, a programmable Watchdog Timer with internal Oscillator, an SPI serial port,
and five software selectable power saving modes. The Idle mode stops the CPU while
allowing the SRAM, Timer/Counters, SPI port, and interrupt system to continue function-
ing. The Power-down mode saves the register contents but freezes the Oscillator,
disabling all other chip functions until the next interrupt or hardware reset. In Power-
save mode, the asynchronous timer and the LCD controller continues to run, allowing
the user to maintain a timer base and operate the LCD display while the rest of the
device is sleeping. The ADC Noise Reduction mode stops the CPU and all I/O modules
except asynchronous timer, LCD controller and ADC, to minimize switching noise during
ADC conversions. In Standby mode, the crystal/resonator Oscillator is running while the
rest of the device is sleeping. This allows very fast start-up combined with low-power
consumption.
The device is manufactured using Atmel’s high density non-volatile memory technology.
The On-chip ISP Flash allows the program memory to be reprogrammed In-System
through an SPI serial interface, by a conventional non-volatile memory programmer, or
by an On-chip Boot program running on the AVR core. The Boot program can use any
interface to download the application program in the Application Flash memory. Soft-
ware in the Boot Flash section will continue to run while the Application Flash section is
updated, providing true Read-While-Write operation. By combining an 8-bit RISC CPU
with In-System Self-Programmable Flash on a monolithic chip, the Atmel ATmega169 is
a powerful microcontroller that provides a highly flexible and cost effective solution to
many embedded control applications.
The ATmega169 AVR is supported with a full suite of program and system development
tools including: C Compilers, Macro Assemblers, Program Debugger/Simulators, In-Cir-
cuit Emulators, and Evaluation kits.