Development tools for Atmel AVR microcontroller line

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About this site

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Why this site exist:

1. The most time we use UNIX machines, but UNIX tools for AVR development (with X support) are rare.
2. We like to create hard- and software.

For this reasons we started to create some hardware and write some tools.
Our software is available under the terms of the GPL.

Mainly UNIX versions of the software exist at the moment. Probably we (or you!) port it some day to other OS's.
We have developed the code on GNU/Linux 2.2 using various IA32 and SPARC32 machines.
Currently it is tested to work on:

• GNU/Linux 2.2 [IA32, IA32 SMP, SPARC V8, SPARC V8 SMP]
• GNU/Linux 2.4 [IA32]
• GNU/Linux 2.6 [IA32, AMD64]
• NetBSD 2.0 [IA32]
• NetBSD 3.0 [SPARC V9]
• SunOS 5.7 aka Solaris 7 [SPARC V8]
• HP-UX 11.11 [HPPA 1.1]
• AIX 4.3 [PPC32]
• MS DOS 6 [MCS86, IA32] (AVRprog backend & netlayer only)

without modifications. Probably it runs on other UNIXes and/or architectures, too (try it and let us know).

We use C and Tcl languages for programming. GUI widgets are taken from Tk and OSF/Motif.
Check the headers of the source files for language, compiler, etc..

Note:
If no binaries exist and you have never used a compiler, use our toolbox which build the software automatically.

Information

• News page
• AVRprog changelog
• File format converter changelog
• Scheduled projects
• AVR device data

Supported programmers

If you have tested one of the supported devices listed as 'untested', please let us know (regardless of success).

• Serial1
  This programmer can be used for 'serial' ISP programming.
  Not intended for ATmegaXXX devices.
• SerialSTK
  This programmer can be used for 'serial' ISP programming.
  Compatible with STK200/STK300 'dongle'.
• AE-AVR PRG
  This programmer can be used for 'serial' ISP programming.
• AVR910
  Programmer family based on Atmels application note AVR910.
  Versions for serial and parallel programming exist.
• STK500
  This is an evaluation board from Atmel.
  It can be used for serial and parallel programming.

The software

• AVRprog
  "Burning" Flash-EPROM and EEPROM images into the MCU.
  GUI frontend. Supports programmer access via network.
  If you have tested one of the supported devices listed as 'untested', please let us know (regardless of success).
• File format converters
  These converters are used by AVRprog to support multiple file formats.
  They can also be used at their own.
• AVRsimulator
  GUI frontend. Emulates AVR MCU's.

The toolbox

• AVRtoolbox
  Toolbox for Atmel AVR development.

Download

• Download page
  All projects can be downloaded from this page.

Other AVR related projects (not written nor maintained by us)

• Avrora
  Tools to simulate complete AVR based systems (including AVR internal peripherals and external system).