Programming and Customizing the Avr Microcontroller [With CDROM]

Not knowing much about Atmel's AVR series I bought this book as a guide for future projects. And i must say i was not disappointed. This book is an excellent complement to the AVR data sheets and provides some real innovative projects for newbies, who want to get their hand dirty with the AVR. A must buy!!!

this book is the best for a newbie, it contains all the information needed for full development on many projects, it explains many protocols and techniques, it has information about various peripherals and how to control them. the cd - rom is very well written and the examples are great. my first microcontroller was AVR, i knew almost nothing at that time, this book helped me to develop almost all my projects with success. there is no doubt that it will help everyone who wants to know about AVRs. I consider this book as one of the best i have.

The hype about the AVR micro-controller made me buy this book, and after reading this I am not only deeply involved in it but am also convinced that the AVR micro-controller leads the present generation of RISC micro-controllers. This book has a reproduction of the AVR data sheet but with many hints and explanations at the appropriate places. This book assumes the reader to be an amateur in the field of electronics but with a zest to be a master in this topic. The projects, which form a major part of the book, are very well arranged in terms of increasing complexity. This arrangement increases the confidence of the reader by introducing the various features slowly and steadily and by the end of all the projects, the reader will surely be able to configure the micro-controller for his own purposes. All said and done, this book has moulded me into an avid AVR supporter.

I really enjoyed this book. It is well laid out with many pictures and diagrams to clarify what is being explained. It starts you off explaining some of the basics so that even if you aren't an engineer you can understand what is being explained. The book then progresses into interfacing code with an AVR, and interfacing AVR's with other common (or not so common) peripherals. The book contains projects so that you can implement what you are learning and learn in a project-based hands-on manner. The first project is a simple program that lights an LED; the projects then progress to more complex ideas like the follow me musical toy. The projects cover both the software and hardware angles. Within hours of receiving this book I was able to get an AVR to give me visible results, I got an LED to flash! Simple I know, but it impressed me. The section on communication appealed since the idea of getting chips to "talk" to each other sounds really interesting. I didn't realise that there were so many different ways that chips could "talk" to each other. There's CAN that's used in cars, USB to talk to PC's. These different communication interfaces mean that micro controllers could be used in robots or home control amongst many other things, for example you could get a micro controller to turn down the TV volume when the phone rings. It seems really amazing that all these things are possible, and this book has shed light on these possibilities which I never knew existed. The enclosed CD contains all code that is in the book; this speeds up the process of implementing the projects, along with relevant data-sheets, application notes, and some useful software development tools. There are recommendations from where to obtain development tools, development boards etc which is useful for those who are new to the AVR.All the code in the book is well commented, which makes it easy to understand and easy to follow what is going on in the code. All in all this is a very good book. I would recommend this book to anyone who wishes to enter the world of micro controllers or someone that already has and needs something comprehensive and informative to refer to.