AVR-Chat

>>> dvanhorn@dvanhorn.org 05/11/2004 12:15:00 pm >>>
>Not everyone wants to flash LEDs on a development board, and IMHO
Atmel made
>a mistake by pushing the STK500 as their base level programming
solution.
>
>There's always the AVRISP. No good for Tiny-11's or anything else that

>needs parallel programming, but otherwise, just fine.

Until you accidently "disable" the ISP mode which renders your chip
next to useless unless you have a parallel programmer to fix it. For
some reason people don't like to talk much about this major trap for
young players.

I have both the AVRISP and STK500, and use the AVRISP where possible
because most of my development is done with the chip on my actual target
board.
The STK500 also has ISP mode as well, but the AVRISP is just so much
neater.

Dave :)