[dorkbotpdx-blabber] AVR Philosophy

[dave madden]

On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 16:45 -0400 Dan Strother <dan.strother at gmail.com> wrote:
> you may be better served by something from Atmel's
> "PicoPower" line: http://atmel.com/products/AVR/default_picopower.asp
> . These are basically just lower power versions of the mainstream
> parts ( < 1uA to run an RTC in sleep mode). Most of them have a much
> more conventional set of peripherals (including UARTs, except on the
> ATtinys...).

Ah, there we go.  I had actually downloaded the datasheet for the
ATmega48PA, but it wasn't clear how to do the RTC (among the 7(!)
different clock options.)  Yes, I'm lazy, but I figured there'd be a
Table of Contents heading for "Real Time Clock" or "32kHz Clock" or
something like that...

Thanks, I'll keep looking at these.  (And, btw, will I be able to
program them relatively easily?  Preferably without buying more hacker
gadgets?)

d.