Hardware

This section highlights the hardware components used in the project. Brief information is provided for each component as well as the wiring we used, with the attached pin descriptions.



The primary features of this board are listed below:
  • operating speed of 11.0592 MHz,
  • 128K bytes of In-System Programmable Flash with Read-While-Write capabilities,
  • four usable headers (J1-J4) each with 10 pins connected to the microcontroller,
  • four LEDs and four mechanical buttons on the board,
  • 4K bytes EEPROM, 16K bytes SRAM, 32 general purpose I/O lines,
  • 32 general purpose working registers, real time counter (RTC),
  • three flexible Timer/Counters with compare modes and PWM,
  • 2 USARTs, and
  • programmable watchdog timer with internal oscillator.


[Atmel ATMega 1284P Datasheet]
[Atmel ATMega 1284P User Guide]
[Atmel ATMega 1284P Getting Started Guide]
The complete wiring schematic is given below:
Wiring.