All Atmel microcontrollers have a three-byte signature code which identifies the device. This code can be read in both serial and parallel mode, also when the device is locked. The three bytes reside in a separate address space. For the ATmega8A the signature bytes are given in the following table.
| Part | Signature Bytes Address | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 0x000 | 0x001 | 0x002 | |
| ATmega8A | 0x1E | 0x93 | 0x07 |