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What is a Microcontroller ?

Ligo George — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 12:01:37 +0000

A microcontroller is an integrated circuit (IC) which is small, low cost and self contained computer designed to handle a specific task in embedded systems. In simple words, a microcontroller (MCU or Microcontroller Unit) is a small computer integrated in to a single chip. We can also explain it as programmable silicon chip which is […]

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Interfacing DC Motor with Atmega32 Microcontroller

Ligo George — Fri, 24 May 2013 14:01:20 +0000

In some of your electronic projects you may want to control a DC Motor with Atmega32 Microcontroller. We can’t connect a DC Motor directly to a microcontroller due to following reasons. A microcontroller can’t supply the current required for the working of DC Motor. ATmega32 Microcontroller can source or sink currents up to 40mA but a DC Motor needs […]

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Interfacing LCD with Atmega32 Microcontroller using Atmel Studio

Ligo George — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:56:13 +0000

As we all know LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) is an electronic display which is commonly used nowadays in applications such as calculators, laptops, tablets, mobile phones etc. 16×2 character LCD module is a very basic module which is commonly used by electronic hobbyists and is used in many electronic devices and project. It can display 2 lines […]

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Using Push Button Switch with Atmega32 and Atmel Studio

Ligo George — Sun, 12 May 2013 20:13:59 +0000

This tutorial is meant for beginners in the field of Atmel AVR programming. I hope that you already read my first tutorial Blinking LED using Atmega32 and Atmel Studio. In most of the embedded electronic projects you may want to use a push button switch to give user inputs to the microcontroller. To use a […]

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Blinking LED using Atmega32 Microcontroller and Atmel Studio

Ligo George — Wed, 08 May 2013 12:32:34 +0000

Similar to printing ‘Hello World’ in C or C++, the very first step towards programming a microcontroller is Blinking a LED with a delay. Atmega32 is a very popular high performance 8 bit AVR Microcontroller. For this example project we need to use two registers DDR and PORT. DDR stands for Data Direction Register, it […]

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