AVR-Chat

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From: AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Roland
Jollivet Sent: 21 December 2009 14:41 To:
AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [AVR-Chat] magazine

> But I always thought it was dumb too, that the Atmel chip
> had to be running 
> with a crystal in order to program it.
> 

This is not the case, you can do everything on AVR using the internal
oscillator.

The problem we were discussing earlier was how to rescue the chip if you
accidentally configure it to have an external crystal, when it hasn't
got one.

-- 
Tim Mitchell