Athena

What is an Athena microcontroller?

Athena class microcontrollers are tiny computers complete with
memory and IO ports that are capable of carrying out your commands
with very simple programs.

Hardware Features

• 15 I/O ports
• 256 Bytes of very efficient program space with
• KRCompression II Flash Technology
• 64 bytes of ram
• 15,000 High level commands per second
• 3.5 - 5.5 volt power range
• 25ma load per IO port
• Ultra low power usage in sleep mode (Less than .2ua)
• Onboard clock
• Hardware PWM signal generator
• Interrupt driven serial UART with 80 byte buffer
• UART baud rate 9600-19200
• Can be programmed over and over 1,000,000 times
• Sleep mode
• IRQ Counter
• Timer
• Port 7 IRQ
• 2, 4-bit AtoD ports
• Interrupt driven serial UART with 80 byte buffer
• UART baud rate 9600 - 1250000
• Can be programmed over and over 1,000,000 times
• Sleep mode
• IRQ Counter
• Timer
• Port 7 IRQ
• 2, 4-bit AtoD ports

Software Features

• LCD Interface
• I2c and SPI commands
• Full X10 support
• IR input and output commands
• True if/then/else commands
• Special chip to chip commands like getpacket and
• cpslave
• Special port branch commands like onportgoto
• Simple and Complex Macro generator
• Software serial IO 1200 –57600
• Shift register input and output commands
• Special commands arrayget and arryset for sequential
• access to all variables
• Simulator Support

The Athena features KRCompression II Flash Technology. This technology compresses code so that programs taking as much as 2K on other microcontrollers will use as little as 200 bytes on the Athena.