The Atmel ATmega169A/169PA/329A/329PA/3290A/3290PA/649A/649P/6490A/6490P is a low-power CMOS 8-bit microcontroller based on the Atmel®AVR® enhanced RISC architecture. By executing powerful instructions in a single clock cycle, the ATmega169A/169PA/329A/329PA/3290A/3290PA/649A/649P/6490A/6490P achieves throughputs approaching 1 MIPS per MHz allowing the system designer to optimize power consumption versus processing speed. The AVR 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 ismore code efficient while achieving throughputs up to ten times faster than conventional CISC microcontrollers. The Atmel ATmega169A/169PA/329A/329PA/3290A/3290PA/649A/649P/6490A/6490P provides the following features: 16K/32K/64K bytes of In-System Programmable Flash with Read-While-Writecapabilities, 512/1K/2K bytes EEPROM, 1K/2K/4K byte SRAM, 54/69 general purpose I/O lines, 32 general purpose working registers, a JTAG interface for Boundary-scan, On-chip Debuggingsupport and programming, a complete On-chip LCD controller with internal contrastcontrol, three flexible Timer/Counters with compare modes, internal and external interrupts, a serial programmable USART, Universal Serial Interface with Start Condition Detector, an 8-channel, 10-bit ADC, a programmable Watchdog Timer with internal Oscillator, an SPI serial port, and five software selectable power saving modes. The Idle mode stops the CPU while allowing the SRAM, Timer/Counters, SPI port, and interrupt system to continue functioning. The Power-down mode saves the register contents but freezes the Oscillator, disabling all other chip functions until the next interrupt or hardware reset. In Power-save mode, the asynchronous timer and the LCD controller continues to run, allowing the user to maintain a timer base and operate the LCD display while the rest of the device is sleeping. The ADC Noise Reduction mode stops the CPU and all I/O modules except asynchronous timer, LCD controller and ADC, to minimize switching noise during ADC conversions. In Standby mode,the XTAL/resonator Oscillator is running while the rest ofthe device is sleeping. This allows very fast start-up combined with low-power consumption. Atmel offers the QTouch library for embedding capacitive touch buttons, sliders and wheels functionality into AVR microcontrollers. The patented charge-transfer signal acquisition offers robust sensing and includes fully debounced reporting of touch keys and includes Adjacent Key Suppression ® (AKS ® ) technology for unambiguous detection of key events. The easy-to-use QTouch Suite toolchain allows you to explore, develop and debug your own touch applications. The device is manufactured using the Atmel high density non-volatile memory technology. The On-chip In-System re-Programmable (ISP) Flash allows the program memory to be reprogrammed In-System through an SPI serial interface, by a conventional non-volatile memory programmer, or by an On-chip Boot program running on the AVR core. The Boot program can use any interface to download the application program in the Application Flash memory. Software in the Boot Flash section will continue to run while the Application Flash section is updated, providing true Read-While-Write operation. By combining an 8-bit RISC CPU with In-System Self-Programmable Flash on a monolithic chip, the ATmega169A/169PA/329A/329PA/3290A/3290PA/649A/649P/6490A/6490P is a powerful microcontroller that provides a highly flexible and cost effective solution to many embedded control applications. The ATmega169A/169PA/329A/329PA/3290A/3290PA/649A/649P/6490A/6490P AVR is supported with a full suite of program and system development tools including: C Compilers, Macro Assemblers, Program Debugger/Simulators, In-Circuit Emulators, and Evaluation kits.