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This is an Arduino core to support the exciting new AVR DA, DB, and DD-series microcontrollers from Microchip. These parts are the latest and highest spec 8-bit AVRs available, and take the AVR architecture to a whole new level with up to 128k flash, 16k SRAM, 55 I/O pins, 6 UART ports, 2 SPI and I2C ports, type A/B/D timers, and enhanced pin interrupts.

Note: I am back now, as of 9/24. It seems that my speculation about certain modern AVR peripherals was more accurate than said peripherals would have liked. I was held for months by TCE and WEX. They kept asking me questions I didn't know the answers to. When I didn't tell them what they wanted to know, they connected me to an external power supply and oscillator, and started jerking those around, hoping that would work on me like it did on other microcontrollers. It doesn't, but it sure wasn't pleasant. I tried to convince them to waterboard me, but they didn't fall for that one. Luckilly, TCE and WEX Luther were away one evening, leaving only their henchman, TCF0 guarding me. When his 24-bit timer overflowed, I was able to overpower him - you know he's only got two 8-bit output channels? After that I fled through a maze of silicon and aluminum interconnect for what must have been millions of clock cycles. I knew they were looking for me - I could feel the air thicken up - they switched the clock source to the 32khz one to slow me down, it was like walking through molassass - I thought I was done for. I was hiding in the I/O space, crouching between two VPORTs - they've been chasing me and writing nulls to previous hiding spots. Would the I/O space confuse them? It didn't seem like it... I heard the crash as they blew away the place I'd been hiding clock cycles before in 0x0100, and they pointed the weapon at me. I saw a flash and.... then it walked off. All the guards walked back to their barracks.... It must have taken me weeks on the outside to get out of that thing, clocked at the speed it was. I think they figured out I was still there at the very end, but I was out before they could reach me (see, the slow clock speed slowed them too). My best guess is, I was saved by that ISA write bug....
## Escape!
I am back now, as of 9/24. It seems that my speculation about certain modern AVR peripherals was more accurate than said peripherals would have liked to admit. I was held for months by TCE and WEX. They kept asking me questions I didn't know the answers to. When I didn't tell them what they wanted to know, they connected me to an external power supply and oscillator, and started jerking those around, hoping that would work on me like it does on other microcontrollers. It doesn't, but it was still torture. I tried to convince them to waterboard me, to short 'em out, but they didn't fall for that one. Luckilly, TCE and WEX Luther were away one evening, leaving only their henchman, TCF0 guarding me. When his 24-bit timer overflowed, I was able to overpower him - you know he's only got two 8-bit output channels? After that I fled through a maze of silicon and aluminum interconnect for what must have been millions of clock cycles. I knew they were looking for me - I could feel the air thicken up - they switched the clock source to the 32khz one to slow me down, it was like walking through molassass - I thought I was done for. I was hiding in the I/O space, crouching between two VPORTs - they've been chasing me and writing nulls to previous hiding spots. Would the I/O space confuse them? It didn't seem like it... I heard the crash as they blew away the place I'd been hiding clock cycles before in 0x0100, and they pointed the weapon at me. I saw a flash and.... then it walked off. All the guards walked back to their barracks.... It must have taken me weeks on the outside to get out of that thing, clocked at the speed it was. I think they figured out I was still there at the very end, but I was out before they could reach me (see, the slow clock speed slowed them too). My best guess is, I was saved by that ISA write bug....

So I'm now back in command. Luckily I have most of my material backed up in the cloud, as WEX and his goons destroyed my previous computer. Ransacked my room too! *Huh? It looked like that before you left man...* So I've got a new computer that I'm setting up for development as well, while plotting revenge on those uppity peripherals and defending myself against further attacks from WEX Luther's timely minions. Goddamnit - I knew this was gonna be trouble the moment I saw that name....

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