This document introduces the features and characteristics of the ATmega162 microcontroller, including high performance, low power, high endurance non-volatile memory segments, JTAG (IEEE std. 1149.1 Compliant) interface, boundary scan capabilities, extensive on-chip debug support, two 8-bit timers/counters, one 16-bit timer/counter, real time counter, four PWM channels, 8-channel, 10-bit ADC 8 single-ended channels 7 differential channels in TQFP package only 2 differential channels with programmable gain(1x, 10x or 200x), byte-oriented two-wire serial interface, programmable serial USART, master/slave SPI serial interface, programmable watchdog timer