## Welcome to CrossStudio for the Atmel AVR!

CrossStudio for AVR is a streamlined integrated development environment for building, testing, and deploying AVR applications.

###### Documentation overview

A comprehensive collection of technical documentation, including reference material, release notes, sample code, technical notes, and Q&As. Each of the links below leads to the resources for a specific topic. Key resources also include getting started documents, API references, and cross-references for related topics.

Getting Started The CrossStudio Tutorial section gives an overview of how to get started with CrossWorks for AVR. | Sample Projects To get you started with the AVR and CrossWorks for AVR, we have written and ported a number of demonstration programs that you can find here. | Release Notes Please take a moment to read the release notes for this version of CrossWorks.
Tasking Library Documentation on the multi-priority, preemptive, multi-tasking and synchronisation library. | C Library Comprehensive documentation on the functions, macros, and variables that comprise the CrossWorks C library. | AVR Library Documentation covering AVR devices and runtime libraries.
CrossStudio CrossStudio is the CrossWorks integrated development environment and where you will spend most of your time when using CrossWorks. | Code Editor A powerful text editor tuned for editing source code with multi-level undo and redo, makes editing a breeze. | Project System A complete project system organises your source code and build rules.
Build System A single key press builds all your applications in a solution, ready for download onto a development board. | Help System The built-in help system provides context-sensitive help and a complete reference to the CrossStudio IDE and tools. | Source Code Control Develop applications in teams with links to SourceSafe, SourceOffSite, CVS and Subversion.

If you have a question or need some help working with CrossStudio, please take a look at our Frequently Asked Questions pages or use CrossStudio's Help Window to search the online documentation. If this still doesn't answer your query, you can submit a question to us using our Helpdesk system.