AVR-Chat

By the way, if you think AVR programming is 'non-robust,' I hope you 
never end up using CPLDs or FPGAs where 'accidentally' sending a bad 
bitstream can cause the part to _melt down and die_ (internally lots 
of outputs all get shorted together).  We had a design where we 
accidentally sent the bitstream from a different model board to the 
FPGA ane it blew out the board's power supply (which was at least a 
lot easier and cheaper to fix than swapping the BGA FPGA would have 
been!).  

---Joel Kolstad