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Depending on your code size, I would start with a 324. Then upgrade to  
644 if you need. I think availability of 1284 is a bit marginal still  
as it is relatively new.

Jim Wagner
Oregon Research Electronics

On Jul 6, 2010, at 9:44 PM, Riccardo Castellani wrote:

> Ok, I will drop my old 8535 but what to choose as processor ?
> M164p, M324p, M644p or M1284p ?
>
> Can you suggest me a good on line shop fot buying AVR porogrammer ?
> AVR Dragon or AVR JTAG ICE Mk2 ?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dave McLaughlin
> To: AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Monday, July 05, 2010 10:52 AM
> Subject: RE: [AVR-Chat] compilator
>
> If you are willing to spend money on the IAR compiler, I would  
> suggest you
> invest in either the AVR Dragon or AVR JTAG ICE Mk2 at the same  
> time. Which
> one will depend on the processors you intend to use.
>
> This means you will want to drop the ATMega8353 and consider one of  
> the
> later devices with JTAG or debug wire capability. It will be well  
> worth the
> upgrade.
>
> Using JTAG debugging will save you so much time in trying to figure  
> out what
> your code is doing, or not doing. A friend of mine does all his  
> programming
> on the PIC in PICBASIC and no JTAG or ICE and spends about 2-3 times  
> longer
> than if he had some kind of in circuit debugger. He has to toggle  
> port pins
> in parts of the code just to see if he is reaching that point. With  
> JTAG you
> won't have that worry. Believe me, it is well worth the additional  
> cost if
> you really want get into this properly.
>
> Dave.
>
> From: AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com [mailto:AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com] On  
> Behalf
> Of Riccardo Castellani
> Sent: 05 July 2010 04:21
> To: AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [AVR-Chat] compilator
>
> I wish investing on my knowledge, so if you think Winavr is suitable  
> for my
> 2 projects I'll use it, otherwise I'll buy IAR because I don't want  
> to study
>
> winavr to replace it in the future with AIR. What do you think now ?
>
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