AVR-Chat

>>> dkazar@sbcglobal.net 05/11/2004 12:03:07 pm >>>
>What needed to be modified? I just got the STK500 and plan to use the
Tiny26
>with it.
>Dennis

From memory, one of the ribbon cables had to be cut and a wire extended
off onto one of the other jumper pins, plus another seperate jumper link
or something. The only place it was documented was deep within the Help
file for the AVR Studio software (go figure). Nowhere was it documented
in the latest documentation for the actual STK500 board (where all of
the other chips are documented), which would of course be the logical
place to put it. I complained to Atmel and they appologised profusly and
said they were aware of the issue and were looking into fixing it
(almost a year after the Tiny26 was released).

At the time it was my first introduction with AVRs, and combine that
with the (easy to do) problem of locking up the ISP mode of the chip
rendering it completely unprogrammable in ISP mode, another essentially
undocumented trap - I was not a happy little camper. By far the most
frustrating and idiodic introduction to any microcontroller family I
have ever used, it almost turned me off AVRs for good.
I won't even mention WINAVR which I tried to setup and then tossed in
the recycle bin in despair.
Support from the local reps?, they just tell you to visit AVRFREAKs and
all your problems will be solved - NOT!

I seriously would not recommend the AVR for beginners for these reasons
alone.

Dave :)