The purpose of this project is a simple and easy to use USB <> CAN bus interface. Heart of the circuit is an Atmel AVR ATmega162 microcontroller which controls the Communication between FTDI FT245BM USB to parallel converter and Philips

High-performance, Low-power Atmel AVR 8-bit Microcontroller 􀁺 Advanced RISC Architecture ̶ 131 Powerful Instructions – Most Single-clock Cycle Execution ̶ 32 x 8 General Purpose Working Registers ̶ Fully Static Operation