The ATMEGA1284P-XPLD is an evaluation board for Atmel megaAVR. It features an ATmega1284P and additional components demonstrating the features of the device. The AVR Explained kits are great platforms for early evaluation of the capabilities offered by the AVR microcontrollers. The MEGA-1284P Explained contain one QTouch button sensor, three mechanical buttons, four LED"s, 3 analog sensors, a UART to USB bridge. The AVR Explained expansion headers provide easy access to analog and digital I/O pins. The board is powered by the USB cable and equipped with the standard 10pin JTAG header that connects to the full range of AVR debuggers. The MEGA-1284P Explained can be used to evaluate the ATmega164/324/644/1284 microcontrollers and the A, P and PA versions of these devices. These devices share the same peripherals, and differ only in memory size electrical characteristics such as power consumption.
Atmel ATmega1284P microcontroller
Read temperature sensor with the ADC
Read light sensor with the ADC
Use the Atmel QTouch library to detect touches on the touch button
Use PWM as input to an analog filter and ADC to measure the filter response
3 push buttons to interact with the microcontroller
4 LED"s to show status information
Board controller that routes data from the ATmega1284P UART to the PC via USB
Program the kit via bootloader or an Atmel programmer
