AVR-Chat

Its not quite that simple.  A good book that takes you through all of  
this kind of stuff is Designing Embedded Hardware by Catsoulis.  He  
talks about the main pins on a uC and has several sample hardware  
designs that he explains along with the software to drive them.

A good place to get started is one of the boards packaged with a  
compiler and experiment kit.

CCS makes some nice ones based around the PIC processor, but they're  
not cheap.  You'll be into it for several hundred bucks between the  
hardware and compiler.  The nice thing about them is they include a  
tutorial that shows you how to use each portion of the uC in detail  
along with some parts and wires to try other stuff.

I'm sure someone makes something similar for the AVR, but I don't  
know of one off hand.


On Nov 14, 2007, at 7:32 PM, warp_kez wrote:

> I apologise upfront if this has been asked before - again and again  
> etc.
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> I am a little confused about programming the target uC, as I have only
> been working in simulators and the likes and in general just playing
> around.
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> The side that confuses me the most, is the wiring of the pin to the uC
> - is it as straight forward as MOSI to MOSI, MISO to MISO, SKT to SKT,
> and RST to RST, or is there more to it?
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> During my Google searches I have found a number of programming board
> circuits that are quite confusing as some use straight out wire,
> resistors, transistors, diodes or a combination from the interface to
> the chip.
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> The only thing that I do not find confusing, the board needs to have
> between 3.3v to 5v.
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