avr study board: a mega16 board with high performance and low cost

AVR Study Board Enhanced from Inova Electronics is a high-performance and low cost Mega16 board. It is well designed for university students, young engineers and electronic enthusiasts to practice AVR programming and to develop their own projects.

The board is compact, however being constructed with all basic peripheral devices for embedded system beginner. Worthwhile to mention here is that it provides three additional facilities for advanced programming: 1. Serial-in-parallel-out port for SPI communication, 2. I2C implemented clock/calendar and 3. Step motor drive. 

 Mega16 (16MHz)

 The main devices on board:

 one 8-way dipswitch

 four push buttons

 four micro switches

 two groups of 8-LEDs with enhanced drive

 serial-communication implemented 4-digit LED 7-segment display

 Weezer

 LCD 1602 with backlight

 Serial-in-parallel-out port (74HC395)

 Real-time timer/calendar

 Step motor drive

 JTAG interface

 ISP interface

 RS232 interface

 RESET circuit

 Independent pin headers for PORTA， PORTB， PORTC， 和PORTD

 pin headers of VCC and GND for on board testing

 DC power input jack

 5V voltage regulator with bypass switch

There are a few of videos made on its application: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBSFESua6OA&feature=channel_page, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By8sg6gUv84&feature=channel. For more information, you can contact Dr G Yao on MSN: jimyao2@hotmail.com .

Source : http://www.avrfreaks.net