AVR-Chat

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:47:38PM -0000, ei5gtb wrote:
> Hello, i recently purchased a "my avr" board from http://www.myavr.de/
> But much to my disappointment the programming application was in
> german. I am just a beginner, and was hoping to use this board to
> educate myself. Could anyone advise if this board can be used with
> other programming software? and if so, which is the best recommended
> one. 

http://babelfish.altavista.com/ translation of http://www.myavr.de/
says the myAVR 1 board has an "integrated SP12 compatible programmer."

The downloadable PDF documentation is German on the left column, English
on the right.

IMO the ATmega8 CPU on this board is not ideal for learning because it
doesn't support JTAG ICE or DebugWire. Similar or more capable AVRs with
JTAG or DW cost the same or less. With JTAG ICE Cube at $40 and AVR
Dragon at $52, and your time is worth $1/hour, these tools are well
worth the expense.

Study the pinouts, my guess is an ATmega88 or something is available
with DebugWire that fits on that board. DebugWire only needs power,
ground, and Reset to program and source code debug on your chip.

More wires are needed to set the fuses on the chip to put it in DW mode,
but once its there you can leave it alone.

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
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