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AVR development Environemnt and Programmer question

2004-01-28 by harshit suri

Hello 
Our team has chosen the Atmel Mega 128 as the MCU for
our project.
I was actually misled by the Ad on atmel website that
Avr studiocxan be used to compile C code for the Atmel
MCU. It only has support for 3rd party vendors.
Our development environment is windows.
this is what i am looking for 

1) A *FREE* (no strings attached) tool that allows us
to write , compile , Debug and then download into the
Atmel Mega 128. I wish it to have a GUI(If possible).
Setting up the the whole GNU tool chain seems
cumbersome and i dont wish to waste time on that.

2) Also the board that we build has to have a very
small form factor. And it has to have in circuit
programming capability. So i was thinking of using the
serial mode , i have seen a diagram showing how u can
program using the parallel port of the PC and the
MISO,MOSI,SCLK, RESET.Pins on teh Atmega128. My
question is : will that tool in point 1 be able to
download to the Atmega128 using the programming scheme
i just mentioned?

thanks
I am a complete newbie with the Atmel chip 


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Re: [AVR-Chat] AVR development Environemnt and Programmer question

2004-01-28 by Bruce Parham

I'm currently using the Imagecraft AVR C compiler (ICCAVR) for an 'M128 project. It's about as good
as it gets. The "Pro" version ($500 US) I'm using, has full support for debugging structures 
in AVRStudio. 

For a fresh start project, I'd recommend investing $300 (US) for the Atmel JTAG debugger.
With the JTAG debugger, AVRStudio you can debug and program your hardware.

If you choose serial downloading, PonyProg seems to work though you may need to make or buy a parallel
port dongle. 

BTW, the 'M128 uses the PDI and PDO (UART-0 I/O) pins and NOT MOSI/MISO for serial download. I made that 
mistake a few years ago on a 'M103 job...

Bruce

harshit suri wrote:

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> 
> Hello
> Our team has chosen the Atmel Mega 128 as the MCU for
> our project.
> I was actually misled by the Ad on atmel website that
> Avr studiocxan be used to compile C code for the Atmel
> MCU. It only has support for 3rd party vendors.
> Our development environment is windows.
> this is what i am looking for
> 
> 1) A *FREE* (no strings attached) tool that allows us
> to write , compile , Debug and then download into the
> Atmel Mega 128. I wish it to have a GUI(If possible).
> Setting up the the whole GNU tool chain seems
> cumbersome and i dont wish to waste time on that.
> 
> 2) Also the board that we build has to have a very
> small form factor. And it has to have in circuit
> programming capability. So i was thinking of using the
> serial mode , i have seen a diagram showing how u can
> program using the parallel port of the PC and the
> MISO,MOSI,SCLK, RESET.Pins on teh Atmega128. My
> question is : will that tool in point 1 be able to
> download to the Atmega128 using the programming scheme
> i just mentioned?
> 
> thanks
> I am a complete newbie with the Atmel chip

RE: [AVR-Chat] AVR development Environemnt and Programmer question

2004-01-29 by stevech

PRLLC and other companies have relatively small boards which have boot
loaders in flash and can download new flash code via a serial link at, say,
19.2Kbps.  Some, like PRLLC include the PC side downloader program free with
the board.

C code:
WinAVR - a form of GCC for the ACVR. No IDE.
AtmanAVR - low cost IDE for GCC.
AvrSide - free IDE. Not bad.

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-----Original Message-----
From: harshit suri [mailto:suri_list@yahoo.com]
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Subject: [AVR-Chat] AVR development Environemnt and Programmer question

Hello
Our team has chosen the Atmel Mega 128 as the MCU for
our project.
I was actually misled by the Ad on atmel website that
Avr studiocxan be used to compile C code for the Atmel
MCU. It only has support for 3rd party vendors.
Our development environment is windows.
this is what i am looking for

1) A *FREE* (no strings attached) tool that allows us
to write , compile , Debug and then download into the
Atmel Mega 128. I wish it to have a GUI(If possible).
Setting up the the whole GNU tool chain seems
cumbersome and i dont wish to waste time on that.

2) Also the board that we build has to have a very
small form factor. And it has to have in circuit
programming capability. So i was thinking of using the
serial mode , i have seen a diagram showing how u can
program using the parallel port of the PC and the
MISO,MOSI,SCLK, RESET.Pins on teh Atmega128. My
question is : will that tool in point 1 be able to
download to the Atmega128 using the programming scheme
i just mentioned?

thanks
I am a complete newbie with the Atmel chip

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