====== AVR microcontroller ====== {{:images:book:avr.jpg?580|}} The following chapters introduce the AVR microcontroller, which this book is based on. In spite of being so small, a microcontroller is full of features that have been documented by Atmel in a manual almost 400 pages long. Besides that, there are a lot of additional specific documents. All that information has been compressed to a fast and simple overview of the subject, which helps a beginner to understand better the AVR and learn to read its datasheet.