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I'm interested to hear what kinds of things you find AVRs in! Are they reflashable?
by kragen 2y ago
I'm interested to hear what kinds of things you find AVRs in! Are they reflashable?
- alnwlsn 2y agoCould be just about anything, from thermostats to CPAP machines to SFP fiber transceivers. Anything that needs to be just a little bit smart (but usually not internet connected) can have one. For hobbyists, the ATMega328P was the go-to for about 15 years, before ESP32 and Pi Pico took over more recently. I'm sure Arduino helped a lot with the AVR's proliferation. There are no one-time programmable versions of AVR as far as I know, so they can all have their internal Flash reprogrammed.
- kragen 2y agoAwesome, thanks! I know them mostly from hobbyist contexts, and I noted that Atmel kind of stopped updating them after the ATMega328PU (and then failed as a company), so I wondered if they were kind of a failed product line, because there weren't enough hobbyists to sustain the product line. It's nice to hear I was wrong!