16 July 2010

Modern microcontrollers are amazingly flexible, powerful beasts.  So how is that they know how to configure their hardware before they even startup?  How can you tell a micro how to use an external crystal, or an internal RC oscillator?

It's all through config bits and our new tutorial will teach you how.  If you're using a bootloader such as Boostbloader, you won't need to specify them in your project, but one day you'll hit a problem that can only be solved by using a different config bits setting.

You can find it in the tutorials section.