AVR-Chat

--- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, David VanHorn <dvanhorn@c...> wrote:
> 
> >
> >It sounded to me like it was free. Probably because they came out with
> >an mkII version that handles more of their chips.
> 
> It's not free, at least not according to arrow or digikey.

Atmel is giving seminars across the country (see their web site) and
as a promotion, giving you a JTAGICE OR a $100 coupon (enough for an
STK500?). Which would you choose? Perhaps I should have asked for the
coupon, because it sounds, just like Microchip, they are abandoning
their first-model for the MkII. Must not be enough money in supporting
cheap entry-level tools.

But the cheap tools get small businesses hooked on their products. If
Atmel wasn't giving a seminar and the JTAG-ICE, I would grudglingly
cough up the $100 bucks for an Olimex ICD2, because the AVR language
and architecture looks like an ordeal to learn. (Topic for another
thread).

> What I'd like to see fixed, is STUDIO!
> Some days, I have no problems at all. Other days, it's unusable.
> Feels like something un-initialized somewhere..

Care to describe the problems in more detail? I loaded it just to
compare it with MPLab and spent 10 minutes so far glancing at it, and
it looks like a higher-quality IDE from the graphics in the help-files
anyways.

Scott