ATmega8515 - Is it an arduino????

Forum 2005-2010 (read only) Hardware Development
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Hi everyone!

Hello! I'm new here. I'm seeing a big buzz on the web related to a hardware called arduino. I really don't know the arduino power I'm just affraid of bug due my last experiences with Microchip PIC's (bugs). So I'm really interested to work with arduino hardware mainly to the fact of Arduino's programming enviroment be focused on C language (I like C, it's easy to learn and do things). But for that I have a doubt I'd like to work with the ATmega8515 a 40 pin IC but I don't know if this ic is considery part of the Arduino's family?? Any guy could help to answer this question to me???

Thanks in advance,

Fabius!

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That chip seems to be missing some hardware features that many arduino program expect, like no ADC (so no analogRead), only one 8 bit timer so only three analogOut channels. It also has only 8k of program memory.

So unless you really need the external RAM capability, you may be better off with the ATmega644P chip. Have a look at the Sanguino for an example of an arduino friendly implementation using the ATmega644

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Thanks sir! I'll study this......