AVR-Chat

On Mar 19, 2008, at 6:28 PM, stereotyperjack wrote:

> With the talk about JTAG, and I'm definantly new as you will see by
> the question, but won't JTAG make those pins on the micro useless for
> anything but JTAG and ICE use?


Yes, but using JTAG is optional. Is easier to not use JTAG on a part  
that has it than to need it on a part that doesn't have it.

If one really must have those pins then one can debug everything else,  
disable JTAG, then finish the project.

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
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