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AVR Programming
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AVR Programming

by Elliot Williams
January 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
474 pages
13h 28m
English
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Chapter 20. Conclusion, Parting Words, and Encouragement

Learning AVR: The Missing Chapters

That was quite a lot of material! Surely there is nothing left to learn about working with the AVR microcontroller or any of its peripherals, right? Wrong!

By now you should have the base knowledge to read the datasheet or scour around the interwebs to find what you need. In that spirit, here is a list of all the topics that I didn’t have room for, but that I feel like you should know about anyway.

The Watchdog Timer

The watchdog system is a very slow timer that can be configured to run from 16 milliseconds all the way up to 8 seconds. It is special in that when it reaches the end of its time, it can fire an interrupt or reset the chip. Why would you want to ...

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