ATMEGA8 User Reference Manual Guide

●The ATMEGA8L-8AU is a 8-bit low-power CMOS Microcontroller Unit based on the AVR RISC architecture. By executing powerful instructions in a single clock cycle, the ATmega8 achieves throughputs approaching 1MIPS per MHz, allowing the system designed to optimize power consumption versus processing speed. The core combines a rich instruction set with 32 general purpose working registers. All the 32 registers are directly connected to the Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU), allowing two independent registers to be accessed in one single instruction executed in one clock cycle. The resulting architecture is more code efficient while achieving throughputs up to ten times faster than conventional CISC microcontrollers.

● Advanced RISC architecture

● 130 Powerful instructions

● Fully static operation

● Up to 16MIPS throughput at 16MHz

● High endurance non-volatile memory segments

● True Read-While-Write operation

● Programming lock for software security

● Two 8-bit timer/counters with separate prescaler, one compare mode

● JTAG interface

● Programming lock for software security

● Power-on reset and programmable brown-out detection

● External and internal interrupt sources