Innovative Techniques for Extremely Low Power Consumption with 8-bit Microcontrollers

With the increased use of microcontrollers in all sorts of applications, low power has become a very important parameter in choosing microcontrollers. Today's microcontroller designs are often battery- or signal wire-powered applications replacing passive or mechanical components. This white paper highlights some of the challenges of modern microcontroller design and explains how the new picoPower techniques used in the Atmel AVR microcontroller addresses them.