ATMega16 AVR Development Board For Students And Hobbyists

Overview

After a few years of making the AVR microcontroller programming and prototyping on the breadboard. I decided to design a development board for the Atmel AVR that contain most of my previous experiment.

Features

I putted many blocks containing many components, easing the prototyping works.

1. Power Supply
2. Basic Parts Of MCU
3. RS-232
4. Digital Input And Output
5. External Interrupts
6. LED Display
7. LCD Display
8. LCD Display
9. Analog Inputs
10. Serial Peripheral Interface
11. Two Wire Interface

Power Supply

The power supply block fed from a DC/DC converter at the voltage of +12V. This input voltage will be converted to a +5V and a +3.3V outputs. The +5V output supplies the microcontroller and other onboard devices. Optionally, the +3.3V output supplies to other +3.3V devices outside the board.

Basic Parts Of MCU

A 16MHz crystal clock is soldered with the MCU, yielding a 16MIPS executing speed. A reset circuit is already puted on board. The reset button triggers a reset signal whenever it's pressed by the user. An ISP socket allows the programm uploading to the microcontroller. It's a 10-pins IDC socket compatiable with the USBasp.

RS-232

The traditional RS-232 communication port could become very classic today. However I stil use it due the rich of the MAX232 driver IC in my warehouse.

Digital Input And Output

PORTA is selected as a digital input PORT. The input is changed by switching the connected on-board DIP switch ON and OFF. PORTB outputs its digital data to the Light Emitting Diodes, crossing a DIP switch.

External Interrupts

The external interrupts of the ATMega16 are INT0, INT1 and INT2. Three input buttons trigger the interrupt respectively.

LED Display

The LED display is a six digits multiplexed display. The digits are common cathode type, green color with the size of 0.4". PORTB displays the segments while PORTC controls the digits.

LCD Display

A 16x2 HD44780 LCD display assembed on this board. It's controlled by PORTC in 4-bit data mode.

Analog Inputs

The analog input fed from two analog input devices, a POT and a LM35DZ analog temperature sensor.

Serial Peripheral Interface

The Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) of this board is the MCP4922 dual 12-bit Digital to Analog Converter (DAC). The two analog voltage outputs connect to the outside device.

Two Wire Interface

The Two Wire Interface (TWI) Communication protocol allow the communication between the master MCU and its slave device via two wires on a single bus. The TWI slave devices here are, a DS1307 RTC and a AT24C16 EEPROM.

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