I'm just starting out with the AVR. I bought an STK500, STK501 and two ATmega64s from DigiKey. AVR Studio is described by Atmel as an Integrated Development Environment and I expected that in conjuction with the STKs I would be all set. However, unless I'm missing something, there is no C compiler and no means of debugging actual hardware. It seems I need to go out and spend more money on a C compiler (or struggle with GCC) and also on another piece of hardware such as JTAGICE. Is this right? Is there really no compiler in AVR Studio? Is there really no means of debugging a program on the hardware without another adapter? Graham.
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STK500, STK501 & AVR Studio not a complete environment
2004-04-22 by Graham Davies