All Microchip AVR® microcontrollers are supported by the same seamless, easy-to-use development environment. Microchip AVR Studio® is the integrated development environment that is used to generate all software running inside an AVR microcontroller. AVR Studio comes with a high-quality editor, project manager, C compiler, assembler, and linker. These represent all the tools required to develop firmware for any AVR device. AVR Studio is also the front-end software for all Microchip hardware development tools, including the starter kits, in-system programmers and debuggers, evaluation kits and reference designs. Microchip offers a wide range of hardware tools, targeting the full spectrum of users ranging from early evaluation to mass production.