3. Resources
A comprehensive set of development tools, application notes and datasheets are available for download on
http://www.atmel.com/avr.
4. Data Retention
Reliability Qualification results show that the projected data retention failure rate is much less than 1 PPM over
20 years at 85°C or 100 years at 25°C.
5. About Code Examples
This documentation contains simple code examples that briefly show how to use various parts of the device.
These code examples assume that the part specific header file is included before compilation. Be aware that not
all C compiler vendors include bit definitions in the header files and interrupt handling in C is compiler
dependent. Please confirm with the C compiler documentation for more details.
For I/O Registers located in extended I/O map, “IN”, “OUT”, “SBIS”, “SBIC”, “CBI”, and “SBI” instructions must
be replaced with instructions that allow access to extended I/O. Typically “LDS” and “STS” combined with
“SBRS”, “SBRC”, “SBR”, and “CBR”.
6. Capacitive Touch Sensing
The Atmel® QTouch® Library provides a simple to use solution to realize
touch sensitive interfaces on most Atmel AVR® microcontrollers.
The QTouch Library includes support for the Atmel QTouch and Atmel QMatrix® acquisition methods.
Touch sensing can be added to any application by linking the appropriate Atmel QTouch Library for the AVR Microcontroller.
This is done by using a simple set of APIs to define the touch channels and sensors,
and then calling the touch sensing APIs to retrieve the channel information and determine the touch sensor states.
The QTouch Library is FREE and downloadable from the Atmel website at the following location:
www.atmel.com/qtouchlibrary.
For implementation details and other information, refer to the
Atmel QTouch Library User Guide — also available for download from Atmel website.