Archive for July 25th, 2009

A 101 on avr-gcc

Saturday, July 25th, 2009

The GNU/Linux offers a plethora of tools to program the ATmega8 efficiently and quickly. avr-gcc provides a port of the popular gcc compiler. This enables a newbie with basic knowledge in C to program the controller easily without the hassle of learning assembly instructions. Moreover, programming the controller in a middle-level language as opposed to assembly gives higher command over the code, but at a higher program size.

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