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AT90S8515
0841GS–09/01
Description
The AT90S8515 is a low-power CMOS 8-bit microcontroller based on the AVR RISC
architecture. By executing powerful instructions in a single clock cycle, the AT90S8515
achieves throughputs approaching 1 MIPS per MHz, allowing the system designer to
optimize power consumption versus processing speed.
Block Diagram
Figure 1.
The AT90S8515 Block Diagram
The AVR core combines a rich instruction set with 32 general-purpose working regis-
ters. 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
