AVR-Chat

When you say "You can dispense with the reset chip" do you mean just for
the purposes of learning or is brownout detection already integrated on
the CPU?

Are there any external supervisory circuits needed?


-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Barello [mailto:yahoo@barello.net] 
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 3:15 PM
Subject: RE: [AVR-Chat] Re: start AVR

Try:
http://homepage.sunrise.ch/mysunrise/pfleury/avr-starterkit.html

With the new mega parts all you need is the chip and a +5v supply.
Peter's
page, above, is pretty old.  You can dispense with the reset chip and
you
can use something like the "SAMPLE" programmer and the programmer that
comes
with WinAVR (www.avrfreaks.net) or BASCOM basic compiler
(www.mcselec.com)
The "SAMPLE" programmer is literally four wires from a cut-off LPT cable
wired to the appropriate pins of the CPU.