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AVR: An Introductory Course

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Unfortunately, found this book to be primarily a programming book, and minimally useful from a semi-newbie hardware perspective.

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Has it been a while since your last uP project? Get this book. Easy to read with lots of good examples. I/O, timers, UART, I2C and etc. Covers mostly the 90S1200 and Tiny parts. Morton points out where and what the differences are for other parts. Only problem I see is the organization. It can be difficult to find a particular section when using it as a reference. Reads more like a book than a reference which some may say is a good thing.

Avoid this book. I have coded Big Iron assembler for years, so Atmel came quick for me. Finding several errors early in the book, I paid no heed. Instead, I wasted hours coding and testing, finally looking at the actual avr doc . In the Morton Appendix list of Commands, the critical Store group (ST,STS,STD) has the wrong syntax and will never work. Forget Morton but not Atmel. Instead,download free AvrStudio with its nice assembler and great simulator. Then study the Avr-asm-tuTorial website. Write some code and then play with flashing it to your chip.

This is a pretty basic book, maybe only 150 pgs (minus appendix and section with binary math refresher). There's no index (sigh). It's based on AT90S1200 and Tiny12, but more recent device types should be similar at the core level. It's a learn-as-you-go introduction, which beginners will probably appreciate. So you won't see chapters oriented by "flow control", "interrupts", "arrays", etc., but by example project. But it's got lots of example code and probably worth keeping around even for the intermediate/advanced user. Avrfreaks.com is often useful and it's free.

This book provides a decent start to AVR programming, but it doesn't include any C, which I think would be a nice addition.

In any event, the book is certainly packed with information, although it is a little light on explanatory material regarding the general electronics.

It provides a cook book of projects, has enough information to get you started, and definitely acquaints you with the inner workings of the AVR. With this book, an STK500, and a few AVRs you can build interesting projects. Add a little electronics experience and you'll be on top of things.

spent a lot of time checking the credibility of the code, as
seemed to be lots of questionable statements. also he doesn't bother explaining the internal pullup resistors and lots of other stuff that a new-to-AVR person wouldn't know. but of course he explains the different numbering systems.

not very happy with it.

I knew nothing about the AVR when I bought this book. I just picked some books to start learning and WOW! It got me up to speed so that now I can program an AVR by myself. The only think I would have liked to see was more explaination of each of the codes used. But you can't get everything in one book.

This is an excellent introductory book on the AVR Microcontroler. It teaches the basics of assembly language programing for the AVR. I have found that assembly language programing is far superior to C language programing for the basic Input/Output programs and bit manipulation that I need to do for my experimental applications. The reader actually writes most of the programs in this book via a series of exercizes and challanges. It introduces the AVR instruction set via projects and text which fully explain each instruction and how it works. The AVR instruction set is easily applied to the entire family of AVR microcontrolers, unlike some other MCUs which each have their own set of instructions. The book goes into detail on the basic strategies that are needed for complete functional programs. I had struggled with the C language but became a true believer in the assmembly language instruction set after reading only the first few sections of this book. The text also provides circuit diagrams and cleared up all of my questions about circuit issues. I am very happy with this purchase and will keep this book as a reference going forward.

It is a good book for anyone who is just starting writting code for AVR processors or who just wants to learn how to write assembly language.

This book is pretty-much what I expected it to be, so I made the right purchase. It introduces AVRs, generally outlines their hardware, and gives a lot of programs. I only wish the hardware part was more thorough, especially the getting-started part and the hardware-setup for programming. After all, this is an introductory course. That's the only reason I didn't give it five stars.