Awesome AVR Microcontrollers

A curated list of awesome AVR tools, libraries, resources, and shiny things. Inspired by awesome-… stuff.

• Awesome AVR
  • Boot Loader
  • Driver
  • EEPROM
  • I2C
  • ISP
  • JTAG
  • Keyboard
  • LCD
  • PWM
  • SPI
  • TWI
  • USART
  • USB
  • Wireless
    • nRF24L01
    • ZigBee
  • Xmega
  • Miscellaneous
• Hardware
  • Programmers
• Software
  • Compilers
  • Integrated Development Environments
  • Simulators
• Resources
  • Articles
  • Books
  • Videos
  • Websites
• Other Awesome Lists
• Contributing

EEPROM

• i2ceeprom - A simple C library for interfacing with 24CXX series I2C EEPROMs.

I2C

• i2cdevlib - I2C device library collection for AVR/Arduino or other C++-based MCUs.
• I2C-master-lib - Lightweight I2C library for 8-bit AVRs.

Keyboard

• tmk_keyboard - A keyboard controller firmware for Atmel AVR USB family.
• AVR-Keyboard - USB Keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR microcontrollers.

LCD

• I2CLCD - A simple C library for interfacing with I2C LCDs.

SPI

• AVRLib/SPI - Serial Peripheral Interface.

USB

• v-usb - A Firmware-Only USB implementation for Atmel’s AVR Microcontrollers.
• LUFA - A lightweight USB Framework for AVRs.
• libusbx - A cross-platform user library providing access to USB devices.

Wireless

• rf24boot - nRF24L01+ bootloader for avr and other mcus.
• libnrf24l01p - NRF24L01+ Transceiver library.
• RF24Network - Network Layer for nRF24L01(+) Radios.
• nrf24L01_plus - Portable nrf24L01+ library with auto acknowledgement and auto retransmission support.
• arduino-nrf24l01 - An Arduino port of the nRF24L01 library.
• NRF24-BTLE-Decoder - Sniff and decode NRF24L01+ and Bluetooth Low Energy using RTL-SDR.
• AVRLib/nRF24L01 - Nordic Semiconductor nRF24L01.

Miscellaneous

Useful libraries or tools that don’t fit in the categories above or maybe just not categorised yet

• AVR Libc - A high quality C library for use with GCC on Atmel AVR microcontrollers.
• light_ws2812 - A lightweight library to control WS2811/WS2812 based LEDS and LED Strings for 8-Bit AVR microcontrollers.
• avr-os - A multitasking OS for Arduino and AVR platforms.
• AVR-Crypto-Lib - A library providing implementations of cryptographic algorithms for the AVR 8-bit microcontroller family.
• libemb - A collection of libraries which try to make things needed in many MCU based projects more convinient.
• Pocket AVR Programmer - Example firmware and board files for the Pocket AVR Programmer.
• avr-tutorials - LaTeX typeset versions of my popular AVR Tutorials.
• AVRliberty - Library of routines for AVR microcontollers.
• AVR-EAX-AES-bootloader - Bootloader for AVR microcontrollers featuring EAX mode encryption in 1024 bytes.
• ArduinoAES256 - Ilya’s byte-oriented AES-256 implementation implemented for Arduino.
• Arduino AESLib - Arduino Library for AES Encryption (source based on avr-crypto-lib).
• avr-libs - Some other libraries and code examples for interfacing AVR microcontrollers with external devices

Software

Software for creating a development environment.

Compilers

List of AVR compilers

• avr-gcc

Integrated Development Environments

List of AVR nominal IDEs.

• Atmel® Studio
• CodeVisionAVR

Simulators

List of AVR Simulators

• simavr - A lean, mean and hackable AVR simulator for linux & OSX.

Resources

Various resources, such as books, websites, and articles for improving your AVR development skills and knowledge.

Articles

Fantastic AVR related articles.

Books

Fantastic AVR related books.

• Make: AVR Programming - Learning to Write Software for Hardware.

Videos

Fantastic AVR related videos.

Websites

Useful AVR related websites.

• AVR Freaks - AVR Freaks Forum.
• AVR Projects - Free projects for 8-bit atmel avr microcontrollers.
• Arduino for Projects
• ATmega32 AVR
• PIC-Microcontroller

Persian Websites

• avr92

Other Awesome Projects

Collection of useful codes, snippets, …

• AVR-Programming - Code examples for the book “Make: AVR Programming”.
• AvrProjects - Different projects and drafts for Atmel’s avr controllers.
• Tinkerer’s AVRLib - A small collection of code snippets which are often needed programming Atmel AVR-Controllers.

Other Awesome Lists

Other amazingly awesome lists

• lists - List of (awesome) lists curated on GitHub
• awesome-awesomeness - A curated list of awesome awesomeness.
• awesome - A curated list of awesome lists.
• awesome-cpp - Awesome C/C++ frameworks, libraries, resources, and shiny things.
• free-programming-books - List of Freely Available Programming Books
• papers-we-love - Papers from the computer science community to read and discuss.

Contributing

Please see CONTRIBUTING for details.