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'''AVR''' is a family of [[microcontrollers]] developed since 1996 by [[Atmel]], acquired by [[Microchip Technology]] in 2016. They are 8-bit RISC single-chip microcontrollers based on a modified Harvard architecture. AVR was one of the first microcontroller families to use on-chip [[flash memory]] for program storage, as opposed to [[Programmable read-only memory|one-time programmable ROM]], [[EPROM]], or [[EEPROM]] used by other microcontrollers at the time.
AVR microcontrollers are used numerously as [[embedded system]]s. They are especially common in hobbyist and educational embedded applications, popularized by their inclusion in many of the [[Arduino]] line of
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