Talk:AVR microcontrollers/Archive 1

message: There used to be many useful AVR links at the bottom of the article. Who is the jerk that keeps deleting them all?
I noticed that several users have launched a complain about a user called "Egil" that keeps deleting stuff from both this article and the "AVR Butterfly" article. (See "AVR Butterfly" Talk Page).
Note: There is also a user called "Rhenn83" that is also deleting items.
A reorganization might be nice every now and then, but a wholesale mass-deletion is darned ignorant.
:First of all Please Sign your comments.  I have re-organised the external links section. Wikipedia should not serve as a Links Directory. For example there were links to multiple pages/pdfs within the Atmel.com site. There were also a number of dead sites. Also one site/group of sites Violate(s) the copyrights of others per contributors' rights and obligations -- Rehnn83 12:41, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: However there is a seperate page for the Butterfly. Wikipedia is not a links directory. Again Please Sign Your Posts.--Rehnn83 10:43, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Additional I have removed a number of links to non-English Websites. As per WP:EL --Rehnn83 13:12, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

text: In addition to keeping external links to a minimum, the WP:External links also specifically discourages links to discussion forums. I have noticed that there are quite a few such links. --Kms 13:07, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who is the Big Jerk? 

message: The following text, although a piece of valuable information, was moved from the article due to the host platform specific contents and rudimentary format---the text more properly belongs at e.g. a web resource to be pointed to in the External links section. --Wernher 00:47, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  How to set up development tools for Linux 

message: It is not strange that there is not a 'add immediate' in the AVR instruction set.
The article in the german Wikipedia explains why this is so.
(de)
However, I am not familiar with the english language and therefore do not change the article. It would be kind if a native speaker could explain this. There is a link to an english pdf in the germen article that explains the genesis of the instruction set.
--Georg-Johann 12:55, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  'strange' instruction set 

message: -- Egil 08:30, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed excessive list of external links 

message: Atmel is a large multinational corporation.
This article makes it look as if the AVR was developed in Norway by a Norway-based company.
Was this the case, and the company bought by Atmel, did Atmel set up the subsidiary, or is the truth still more convoluted? --Alvestrand 02:17, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  History that led to "Atmel Norway"? 

message: The first part of the sentence is NOT true. EEPROMs are subject to "wear out" after a number of write cycles.... (At least, that I what I learned in my  studies (el. engineering; focus microelectronics)... ASFAIK this is still that way)
If someone disagrees, feel free to revert.
See also topic EEPROM
195.37.212.221 09:52, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Correct, that statement is false.  EEPROMs can die. (BSEE, VLSI concentration) 75.46.134.13 05:24, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Although the number of writes to EEPROM is practically unlimited, Atmel claims reliability only up to 100,000 writes." 

message: Atmel's financial troubles seem irrelevant in an article about the AVR core. 05:33, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Atmel's troubles vs. AVR article 

message: This page really needs the following tag:
This article or section does not cite its references or sources.You can help Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations.
A casual google search will come up with the back-dated stock allegation, but not the selling off of the AVR branch, or the retrenchment of workers.
Plus, there should be a semi-protection tag at the top as well.
(edit: typo :) )
flexible is written as flaxible
Damien d 12:49, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some Wiki stuff