Introduction

STK520 User Guide

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Section 1

Introduction

The STK520 board is a top module designed to add AT90PWM family support to the

STK500 development board from Atmel Corporation.

The STK520 includes connectors and hardware allowing full utilization of the new fea-

tures of the AT90PWM, while the Zero Insertion Force (ZIF) socket allows easy to use of

SO24 & SO32 packages for prototyping.

This user guide acts as a general getting started guide as well as a complete technical

reference for advanced users.

Notice that in this guide, the word AVR is used to refer to the target component

(AT90PWM2, AT90PWM3...)

Figure 1-1. STK520 Top Module for STK500