AVR Programming & development tools. (CDK4AVR)
CDK4AVR -- AVR Cross Development Kit
Version 3.0
CDK4AVR stands for Cross Development Kit for Atmels AVR RISC processor
serie and should support your development with a comprehensive
and C development environment for even this processor familie under
will present only free of fee tools, so you can use it without risks.
you will find some useful OS projects and related sample code all
arround AVRs
inside of the example packages.
CDK4AVR collects all programms and development tools in one
(/opt/cdk4avr) and will try to present an easy to
admin installation.
My intention for CDK4AVR is / was to provide a full featurd tool chain
distribution of all the free accessible resources, because the most
scattered to the wide of the whole Internet and only compileable by
wizards or
professions.
& WARNINGS
The most packages are untested. Some few packages will be
unstable or
developer snapshot code. So I'm looking for (beta) test users. Please,
your experience with CDK4AVR. CDK4AVR is a leisure-time project and I
will try to be up to date with all the
package versions.&I think my
real update cycle will be 5 or 7 months, sorry :-(
The base package cdk-avr-base will work only at Red
distributions (Red Hat, Mandriva/Mandrake, and I believe Suse). For
distributions you have to ensure the linked scripts cdk4avr.sh and
cdk4avr.csh in /etc/profile.d are involved in your user environment
process at login time.
PROJECT LINKS
(all RPM packages, DEB and TGZ in
experimental state)
(for the last 12 months)
OTHER CDKs
All packages will be provided as RPM only. With CDK4AVR 3.0
download DEB and TGZ packages too (experimental and untested state). It
is not necessary to install all
packages. At least you have to install the base package cdk-avr-base
every time you want to use another package. Here is an example for a
GNU development environment:
[user@host]$ rpm -hiv cdk-avr-base-0.5-6.rpm [user@host]$ rpm -hiv cdk-avr-binutils-2.16.1-6.rpm [user@host]$ rpm -hiv cdk-avr-gcc-3.4.5-6.rpm [user@host]$ rpm -hiv cdk-avr-gcc-c++-3.4.5-6.rpm [user@host]$ rpm -hiv cdk-avr-gcc-colorgcc-3.4.5-6.rpm [user@host]$ rpm -hiv cdk-avr-libc-1.4.4-.noarch.rpm [user@host]$ rpm -hiv cdk-avr-gdb-6.4-6.rpm [user@host]$ rpm -hiv cdk-avr-simulavr-0.1.2.2-6.rpm [user@host]$ rpm -hiv cdk-avr-avarice-2.5-6.rpm [user@host]$ rpm -hiv cdk-avr-uisp-6.rpm [user@host]$ rpm -hiv cdk-avr-avrdude-5.1cvs-6.rpm
You will found all&files released at SourceForge.Net
All the CDK4AVR packages was (re-)building on a standard Mandriva
2006.1 Linux distribution. All RPM packages are depending on even this
environment. The RPM installation at other distribution than Mandriva
2006.1 (ex. SuSE or Fedora Core) can run into a resolving error of
package dependencies. In this case you have to force the installation
by using rpm option --nodeps
and ensure the presence of all conditions.
is an example for Fedora Core 5.
All packages were signed by me. You can copy my public PGP key
(see below),
install it and check the RPM packages:
[user@host]$ su -c "rpm --import SLZ-GPG-KEY" [user@host]$ rpm --checksig *.rpm
For Debian DEB packages do this:
[user@host]$ gpg --import SLZ-GPG-KEY [user@host]$ dpkg-sig -k "Stephan Linz &linz@li-pro.net&" -c *.deb
For Slackware TGZ packages do this:
[user@host]$ gpg --import SLZ-GPG-KEY [user@host]$ gpg --multifile --default-key "Stephan Linz &linz@li-pro.net&" --verify *.tgz.sig
SLZ-GPG-KEY
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OTHER AVR TOOL CHAINS / INFORMATIONS
by Eric Weddington
by Richard M. Neswold (now part of avr-libc)
by AVR Freaks
by RoboterNetz (German only)
by microcontroller.net (German only)
Hubert Hoegl (mixed in German and English)
0. Base System (you need it):
Base package
-- is needed every time you will use any CDK4AVR package.
Users of base
packages with version 0.2 and prior have to update to latest version.
There was a damaged (t)csh startup script. As a result of an buggy
%preun script in previous packages you have to update in two cycles:
[user@host]$ rpm -hUv cdk-avr-base-0.3-6.rpm [user@host]$ rpm -hUv --force cdk-avr-base-0.3-6.rpm
A library (using
libusb) to talk to FTDI's FT232BM, FT245BM and FT2232C type chips
including the popular bitbang mode. This library will be used by the
USB Atmel AVR programmer by Wolfgang Wieser.
Accessibility tool
configuration file parser for FTDI USB controller. This library will by
used by the FTDI EEPROM tool, a part of the CDK4AVR tool package (see
1. Assembler, Disassembler, Object File Operator:
Binutils is a
collection of binary utilities, including:
avr-ar: creating modifying and extracting from
avr-as: a family of GNU assemblers
avr-ld: the GNU linker
avr-nm: for listing symbols from object files
avr-objcopy: for copying and translating object files
avr-objdump: for displaying information from object
avr-ranlib: for generating an index for the contents
of an archive
avr-size: for listing the section sizes of an object
or archive file
avr-strings: for listing printable strings from files
avr-strip: for discarding symbols
avr-addr2line: for converting addresses to file and
avr-readelf: for displaying information about ELF
Supported processors:
ATtiny10 ATtiny11 ATtiny12 ATtiny13 ATtiny15 ATtiny22
ATtiny2313 ATtiny24 ATtiny25 ATtiny26 ATtiny261 ATtiny28 ATtiny44
ATtiny45 ATtiny461 ATtiny84 ATtiny85 ATtiny861
AT90S1200 AT90S2313 AT90S2323 AT90S2333 AT90S2343
AT90S4414 AT90S4433 AT90S4434 AT90S8515 AT90C8534 AT90S8535
ATmega103 ATmega128 ATmega1280 ATmega1281 ATmega16
ATmega161 ATmega162 ATmega163 ATmega164P ATmega165 ATmega165P ATmega168
ATmega169 ATmega169P ATmega32 ATmega323 ATmega324P ATmega325 ATmega3250
ATmega329 ATmega3290 ATmega406 ATmega48 ATmega603 ATmega64 ATmega640
ATmega644 ATmega644P ATmega645 ATmega6450 ATmega649 ATmega6490 ATmega8
ATmega83 ATmega85 ATmega8515 ATmega8535 ATmega88
AT43USB320 AT43USB355 AT90USB1286 AT90USB1287
AT90USB646 AT90USB647
AT90CAN128 AT90CAN32 AT90CAN64
AT76C711 AT86RF401 AT94K AT90PWM2 AT90PWM3
For more informartion see:
AVA (assembler
and linker) was mainly designed for 8 and 16 bit mocrocontrollers but
can be easily extended to 32 bit families too. In addition to standard
assemblers for microcontrollers it features powerful segments and virtual
symbols. These two features improve modular programming and allow
objects to be completely independed from each other. AVA integrates two
parts in one binary (ava):
Supported processors:
ATtiny10 ATtiny11 ATtiny12 ATtiny22
AT90S2313 AT90S2323 AT90S2333 AT90S2343 AT90S4414
AT90S4433 AT90S4434 AT90S8515 AT90S8535
ATmega103 ATmega603
AVA was made by Uros Platise in 1999. For more
informartion see:
AVA was futhermore developed by Denis Chertykov. For more information
AVRA is an
assembler for the Atmel AVR microcontrollers, and it is almost
compatible with Atmel's own assembler AVRASM32. The difference is that
avra supports some extra preprocessor directives, and the macrosupport
is better. There is no linker support or any other object handling.
AVRA integrates only:
avra: Assembler
Supported processors:
ATtiny11 ATtiny12&ATtiny15 ATtiny22 ATtiny26
AT90S1200 AT90S2313 AT90S2323 AT90S2333 AT90S2343
AT90S4414 AT90S4433 AT90S4434 AT90S8515 AT90C8534 AT90S8535
ATmega103 ATmega104 ATmega128 ATmega16 ATmega161
ATmega162 ATmega163 ATmega169 ATmega32 ATmega323 ATmega603 ATmega64
ATmega8 ATmega83 ATmega8515 ATmega8535
AT86RF401 AT94K
For more informartion see:
TAVRASM is an
assembler for the Atmel AVR family of micro-controllers. It uses a
syntax similar to the one found in the Atmel AVR DOS assembler. Some of
the features includes:
Super-set of Atmel AVR assembler.
Macros in macros.
Save Intel HEX, Motorola S-record, Generic and binary
More than 100 warning/error messages.
Atmel object files compatible with Atmel's AVR Studio.
C escape characters in char/string literals.
Supported processors:
AT90S1200&AT90S2313 AT90S2323 AT90S2343
AT90S4414 AT90S4433 AT90S4434 AT90S8515 AT90S8535
ATmega103&ATmega128 ATmega16 ATmega162
ATmega161 ATmega163&ATmega168 ATmega169 ATmega32 ATmega323
ATmega48 ATmega8 ATmega8515 ATmega8535&ATmega88
For more informartion see:
TPASM is a
command line based cross assembler for
microcontrollers. It should compile and function on most any Unix based
system.&TPASM began as a replacement for mpasm (an assembler
for Microchip's PIC processors). Then it got out of control. Now it is
a cross assembler for a variety of common microprocessors (including
the PICs). TPASM feature set and syntax is a conglomeration of features
from many other assemblers. It bears enough similarity to mpasm so that
porting mpasm source to it should not be very painful.&Some of
the features includes:
true multi-pass assembly (will take as many passes as
multiple segments
sophisticated expressions
macros, repeats, conditionals
arbitrary length labels
local labels
can switch between processors during assembly
Supported processors:
ATtiny10 ATtiny11 ATtiny12&ATtiny15
ATtiny22&ATtiny28
AT90S1200 AT90S2313 AT90S2323 AT90S2333 AT90S2343
AT90S4414 AT90S4433 AT90S4434 AT90S8515 AT90C8534 AT90S8535
ATmega103 ATmega161 ATmega8
For more informartion see:
GAVRASM, A
command line assembler for all AT90S-, ATtiny- und ATmega types of
microcontrollers of ATMEL, with many extended and new features. View
the ReadMe.Txt for more informations on features. Supported processors:
ATtiny11 ATtiny12 ATtiny13 ATtiny15 ATtiny22
ATtiny2313
ATtiny24 ATtiny25 ATtiny26&ATtiny28
ATtiny44&ATtiny45&ATtiny84
AT90S1200 AT90S2313 AT90S2323 AT90S2333 AT90S2343
AT90S4414 AT90S4433 AT90S4434 AT90S8515 AT90C8534 AT90S8535
ATmega103 ATmega104 ATmega128 ATmega1280 ATmega1281
ATmega16 ATmega161 ATmega162 ATmega163 ATmega165 ATmega168 ATmega169
ATmega2560 ATmega2561 ATmega32 ATmega323 ATmega325 ATmega3250 ATmega329
ATmega3290 ATmega406 ATmega48 ATmega603 ATmega64 ATmega640 ATmega644
ATmega645 ATmega6450 ATmega649 ATmega6490 ATmega8 ATmega83 ATmega8515
ATmega8535&ATmega88
AT86RF401 AT90CAN32 AT90CAN64 AT90CAN128 AT90PWM2
For more informartion see:
REVAVA is a
single pass disassembler that reads in a file containing a program
intended for an Atmel AVR microcontroller and outputs assembly code
that can be input to an avr assembler. The output of revava contains
assembler mnemonics where possible and dc.W declarations where no
mnemonic matches the data. The comment field for each assembly
instruction contains the address from the object code and the
destination address for branches, calls, jumps, etc. In the case where
there are multiple assembly instructions that assemble to the same
opcode, all choices are presented in a group with all but the first
choice commented out.
This is an early release. Roght now only Intel hex files are supported
for input. See the file TODO for more ideas.
Install revava if you need to perform any of these types of actions on
AVR binary files. Only some programmers will want to install revava.
For more informartion see:
AVRdis is a
small and simple disassembler for Atmel AVR microcontrollers written by
Paulo Soares. This is very very alpha code and unsupported /
unmaintained for more than two or three years. See changes.txt indside
the documentation path.
Install avrdis if you need to perform any of these types of actions on
AVR binary files. Only some alpha test programmers will want to install
For more informartion see (!!! outdated link
CANCELED +++ CANCELED +++ CANCELED +++
avr-coff-objcopy
is an add-on package to provide the special AVR Coff
patch made by Joerg Wunsch. WARNING: This code is very very
beta and right now Joerg knows about some bugs. Furthermore there is no
really reason to use it in a plain Linux development environment.
Additionally
this package includes Jason Riffel's objtool in version
0.4 beta. Objtool is the traditional coff converter used by some WinAVR
beta test programmers will want to install avr-coff-objcopy.
For more informartion
read included README.coff-avr-patch file.
reports to: avrcoff-bug (at) uriah (dot) heep (dot) sax (dot) de
2. Compiler, Interpreter:
A compiler
aimed at integrating all the optimizations and features necessary for a
high-performance and stable AVR development environment. You'll need
this package in order to compile C/C++ code. It includes:
avr-gcc: GNU project C compiler
avr-g++: GNU project C++ compiler
avr-cpp: GNU C compatible compiler preprocessor
The C++ support is unfinished. There is no STD C++ library for AVR
microcontrollers !!!
Supported processors:
ATtiny11 ATtiny12 ATtiny13 ATtiny15 ATtiny22
ATtiny2313
ATtiny24&ATtiny25 ATtiny26 ATtiny261
ATtiny28&ATtiny44
ATtiny45 ATtiny461 ATtiny84 ATtiny85 ATtiny861
AT90S1200 AT90S2313 AT90S2323 AT90S2333 AT90S2343
AT90S4414 AT90S4433 AT90S4434 AT90S8515 AT90C8534 AT90S8535
ATmega103&ATmega128&ATmega1280&ATmega1281
ATmega16 ATmega161 ATmega162 ATmega163 ATmega164P ATmega165
ATmega165P ATmega168 ATmega169 ATmega169P ATmega32 ATmega323 ATmega324P
ATmega325 ATmega3250
ATmega329&ATmega3290 ATmega406 ATmega48 ATmega603 ATmega64
ATmega644 ATmega644P ATmega645 ATmega6450 ATmega649 ATmega6490
ATmega8&ATmega8515 ATmega8535 ATmega88
AT43USB320 AT43USB355&AT90USB1286
AT90USB1287 AT90USB646 AT90USB647
AT90CAN128&AT90CAN32&AT90CAN64
AT76C711 AT86RF401&AT94K AT90PWM2 AT90PWM3
For more informartion see:
This is the
Ada 95 support package for the GNU compiler. In general, this packages
will be maintained as parts of cdk-avr-gcc. Content:
GNU AVR Ada compiler gnat ported by Rolf
AVR Run Time System (RTS) for compile time
AVR Ada project setup tool mk_ada_app.sh by
Bernd Trog
The current distribution of AVR-Ada&is based on gcc-3.4.6 and
gcc-4.1.1. In the AVR-Ada project we rarely have problems with the Ada
compiler itself. It is
quite stable. The Ada run time system (RTS) on the other
hand is for the most part not even a run time system. It is more a
compile time system. Most files in the RTS are only needed at compile
time. As a consequence we don't yet have support for exceptions nor for
tasking (multi-threading). There is some AVR specific support. Type and
interface definitions, timing routines, eeprom access, UART, and most
importantly the necessary definitions for most AVR parts.
For more informartion see:
retargetable compiler for Standard C. This is (was) a first release of
Roberto Biancardi's changes to lcc-4.1 to generate code for the atmel
AVR microprocessor. WARNING:
This code is beta,
there is room for improvment and of course bug fixes. lcc-avr is not
ready for prime time but in his personal configuration, wired on
at90s8515 sometimes generate the right code.
lcc-avr uses the external assembler 'tavrasm' to generate target
Supported processors:
For more informartion see:
3. Debugger, Simulator, Emulator:
GDB, the GNU
debugger, allows you to debug programs written in C, C++, and other
languages, by executing them in a controlled fashion and printing their
data. In the case of AVR RISC processores you have to use a separated
simulator (simulavr) or in-circuit emulator (avarice) to run programs.
This collection includes:
avr-gdb: GNU debugger for AVR RISC microcontrollers
Supported targets:
For more informartion see:
Simulavr is a
simulator for the AVR RISC microcontrollers. Simulavr can be used
either standalone or as a remote target for GDB. When used as a remote
target for GDB, the simulator is used as a backend to GDB such that GDB
can be used as a source level debugger. This collection includes:
simulavr: Simulator for AVR RISC microcontrollers
Supported processors:
AT90S1200&AT90S2313 AT90S4414 AT90S8515
ATmega8 ATmega16 ATmega103 ATmega128
AT43USB320 AT43USB325 AT43USB326 AT43USB351
AT43USB353 AT43USB355
For more informartion see:
AVaRICE is a
program which interface the GNU debugger GDB with the AVR JTAG ICE
available from Atmel.
In recent times, GCC added support for the AVR series of
microcontrollers. This has been quite the boon for those of us who
write embedded applications for processors with "leaner" architectures.
Recently, Atmel announced the availability of a JTAG box for the AVR.
Until now, there was no way to interface to this device with GDB.
AVaRICE runs on a POSIX machine and connects to GDB via a TCP socket
and communicates via GDB's "serial debug protocol". This protocol
allows GDB to send commands like "set/remove breakpoint" and
"read/write memory".
AVaRICE translates these commands into the Atmel protocol used to
control the AVR JTAG ICE. Connection to the AVR JTAG ICE is via a
serial port on the POSIX machine. This collection includes:
avarice: JTAG ICE GDB connectivity for AVR RISC
microcontrollers
Supported processors:
each AVR microcontroller with JTAG access
For more informartion see:
4. Libraries, Operating Systems:
The AVR Libc
package provides a subset of the standard C library for Atmel AVR 8-bit
RISC microcontrollers. In addition, the library provides the basic
startup code needed by most applications. It includes:
I/O definitions and access macros
AVR interrupt and signal handling
Functions for long jumps
Program Space String Utilities
EEPROM access functions
Timer control functions
Watchdog Timer control
Power Management and Sleep Modes functions
Memory management (malloc/free and friends)
String manipulation functions and charcter operations
System Error handling (errno)
Standard IO facilities
Mathematical functions (soft-fpu)
Bootloader API in C for those processors that support
(small) Compatibility for IAR C
Supported processors:
ATtiny11 ATtiny12 ATtiny13 ATtiny15 ATtiny22
ATtiny2313
ATtiny24 ATtiny25 ATtiny26 ATtiny261 ATtiny28 ATtiny44 ATtiny45
ATtiny461 ATtiny84 ATtiny85 ATtiny861
AT90S1200 AT90S2313 AT90S2323 AT90S2333 AT90S2343
AT90S4414 AT90S4433 AT90S4434 AT90S8515 AT90C8534 AT90S8535
ATmega103 ATmega128 ATmega1280 ATmega1281 ATmega16
ATmega161 ATmega162 ATmega163 ATmega164(p) ATmega165 ATmega168
ATmega169 ATmega32 ATmega323 ATmega324(p) ATmega325 ATmega3250
ATmega329 ATmega3290 ATmega406 ATmega48 ATmega64 ATmega640ATmega644
ATmega644(p) ATmega645 ATmega6450 ATmega649 ATmega6490 ATmega8
ATmega8515 ATmega8535 ATmega88
AT43USB1286 AT43USB1287 AT43USB320 AT43USB355
AT43USB646
AT43USB647 AT76C711 AT86RF401 AT90CAN32 AT90CAN64 AT90CAN128 AT90PWM2
AT90PWM3 AT94K
Install AVR Libc if you need to perform any of these types of actions
on AVR source files. Most programmers will want to install AVR Libc.
For more informartion see:
Procyon AVRlib is a
C-language function library for Atmel AVR processors written by Pascal
Stang, including:
AVR Built-In Peripheral Drivers:
Timers (with PWM, interrupt management)
UART (interrupt driven)
A/D Converter
I2C Master/Slave (interrupt and non-intr)
SPI Interface
External Interrupts
AVR Software-Emulated Devices:
I2c Master (Bit-Bang)
UART (software-based, timer interrupt driven)
Pulse Output (timer-based, variable frequency)
Intel-type Memory Bus (Address & Data Buses
+ nRD,nWR)
Byte Buffering (circular)
Bit Buffering (linear)
Printf and other formatted print functions
VT100 Terminal Output
Command Line Interface
FAT16/32 File System (support is read-only for now)
STX/ETX Packet Protocol
Fixed-Point Math Library (basic operations only)
External Hardware Device Drivers:
Character LCD Modules (HD44780-based)
I2C EEPROM Memories
SPI EEPROM Memories
MMC/SD Card Interface (SPI mode)
LIS3L02 ST Accelerometer
IDE/ATA Interface (for hard disks and CF cards)
Quadrature Encoders
RC-Servos (up to 8 channels)
STA013 MP3 Decoder Chip
GPS Receivers (via serial port)
NMEA-0813 Protocol
Trimble TSIP Protocol
Graphic LCD Modules
KS0108/HD61202 Controller
T6963 Controller
LCD Fonts and Symbols
Network Support:
Device Drivers
RTL8019 Ethernet
AX88796 Ethernet
CS8900 Ethernet
Prism2 Wireless LAN
Network Protocols
Network Stack infrastructure
For more informartion see:&
AVR HAL is a
collection of some usefull C library functions ported to some different
boards and/or plattforms, including:
Alphanumeric LCD (up to 4x64 characters)
LED bar (with up to 8 LEDs)
LED point and bar graphic (standardized)
key pad (with up to 5 buttons)
Dallas Semiconductors One Wire bus
One Wire temperature sensor DS1820/DS1822
Supported boards:
AVR-Ctrl:&
Supported processors:
clock: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 MHz
For more informartion see:&
(German only)
5. In System Programming (ISP):
(micro-ISP) is the most important In-System Programmer for AVR RISC
microcontrollers, includes:
uisp: the Micro In-System Programmer
Supported serial/parallel adapters:
avr910 Standard Atmel Serial
Programmer (Low Cost)
(K. Leitner: )
stk500 Atmel STK500 Evaluation
Board (seriell)
dapa Direct AVR Parallel Access
stk200 Parallel Starter Kit
STK200, STK300
abb Altera ByteBlasterMV Parallel
Port Download Cable&
avrisp Atmel AVRISP (uses stk500
protocol, but can only perform serial programming using SPI)
atdh Atmel-ISP Download Cable (P/N
ATDH1150VPC) (parallel)&
paravrisp [Unknown origin]
Parallel port programmer
(parallel)
(parallel)
(parallel)
maxi Investment Technologies Maxi
(parallel)
xil Xilinx HW-JTAG-PC download
cable (parallel)
ett ETT AVR Programmer V2.0 [from
Futurlec] (parallel)
dasa serial (RESET=RTS SCK=DTR
MOSI=TXD MISO=CTS)
dasa2 serial (RESET=!TXD SCK=RTS
MOSI=DTR MISO=CTS)
dasa3 serial (RESET=!DTR SCK=RTS
MOSI=TXD MISO=CTS)
dm04 Datamekatronik 2004 (parallel)
casc serial ()
&Meta programmer -- supported by any serial/parallel adapter
hvprog&high-voltage
STK500/AVR910 like programmer ()
s an AVRISP/STK500-protocol and JTAGICE compatible Programmer/JTAG
debugger ()
NOTE: UISP is a dangerous binary, it will need
(use) root privilegs!
For more informartion see:
Outdated version comes from:
AVRDUDE - AVR
Downloader Uploader - is a program for downloading and uploading the
on-chip memories of Atmel's AVR microcontrollers. It can program the
Flash and EEPROM, and where supported by the serial programming
protocol, it can program fuse and lock bits. AVRDUDE also supplies a
direct instruction mode allowing one to issue any programming
instruction to the AVR chip regardless of whether AVRDUDE implements
that specific feature of a particular chip. It includes:
avrdude: the AVR Downloader Uploader
Supported serial/parallel adapters:
abcmini ABCmini Board, aka Dick
Smith HOTCHIP
alf Nightshade ALF-PgmAVR,
(TonyFriebel's Programmer)
avr910 Standard Atmel Serial
Programmer (Low Cost)
(K. Leitner: )
dapa Direct AVR Parallel Access
avrisp Atmel AVR ISP (?)
jtagmki Atmel JTAG ICEP (mkI)
jtagmkii Atmel JTAG ICEP (mkII)
bascom Bascom SAMPLE programming
(parallel)
butterfly Atmel Butterfly
Development Board
dt006 Dontronics DT006,
(parallel)
pavr Jason Kyle's pAVR Serial
Programmer,
picoweb Picoweb Programming Cable,
pony-stk200 Pony Prog STK200 with
LED support
sp12 Steve Bolt's Programmer
stk500 Atmel STK500 Evaluation
Board v1/v2 (seriell)
stk200 Parallel Starter Kit
STK200, STK300
Thomas Fischl's USB programmer ()
programming
cable (parallel)
xil Xilinx HW-JTAG-PC download
cable (parallel)
dasa serial (RESET=RTS SCK=DTR
MOSI=TXD MISO=CTS)
dasa3 serial (RESET=!DTR SCK=RTS
MOSI=TXD MISO=CTS)
ponyser serial (RESET=!TXD SCK=RTS
MOSI=DTR MISO=CTS)
AT-ISP V1.1 programming cable for AVR-SDK1 ()
ere-isp-avr
ISP-AVR by ERE Co., Ltd. ()
For more informartion see:
special compact In-System Programmer for the C2N232 project by Marko
M&kel&. CISP transfers data to and from the
non-volatile program or data memory of an Atmel AVR RISC processor over
the Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI). particular chip. It includes:
cisp: the compact In-System Programmer
Supported serial/parallel adapters:
c2n232 serial (RESET=DTR SCK=RTS
MOSI=TXD MISO=CTS)
dasa serial (RESET=RTS SCK=DTR
MOSI=TXD MISO=CTS)
ponyprog serial (RESET=TXD SCK=RTS
MOSI=DTR MISO=CTS)
dapa parallel (RESET=INIT
SCK=STROBE MOSI=D0 MISO=BUSY)
dt006 parallel (RESET=D2 SCK=D3
MOSI=D0 MISO=BUSY)
stk200 Parallel Starter Kit
STK200, STK300
For more informartion see:
AVRPROG-pzn is
a special In-System Programmer by Pedro Zorzenon Neto.
Programmer for Atmel AVR microcontrollers that uses PC parallel port to
program the device in serial mode. The device can be programmed
"in-system". It comes with a schematic of the hardware required. The
hardware was designed to be efficient and inexpensive. It includes:
avrprog: Pedro's In-System Programmer
For more informartion see:
At Debian project side:
avrctrl-isp is
a special In-System Programmer for the AVRCtrl project maintained by
. It includes:
isp: AVRCtrl In-System Programmer
NOTE: ISP is a dangerous binary, it will need
(use) root privilegs!
For more informartion see:
(German only)
picoweb-pppt
is a special In-System Programmer for the PicoWeb project maintained by
Lightner Engineering. It includes:
ppt: PicoWebl In-System Programmer
NOTE: PPT is a dangerous binary, it will need
(use) root privilegs!
For more informartion see:
AVRprog can be
used to burn the image files created by the assembler or compiler into
the target MCU using some programming hardware:
Serial1 special selfmade serial
SerialSTK Parallel Starter Kit
STK200, STK300
avr910 Standard Atmel Serial
Programmer (Low Cost)
(K. Leitner: )
Akizuki 'Akizuki'
programmer&
AVRprog is very restrective in context
to the SerialSTK parallel ISP adapter. Read the RPM header text
carefully!
For more informartion see:
serial mode (in-circuit) programmer for the AVR family of
microcontrollers. When new AVR uCs arrive, you can easily add support
for them yourself, by adding a plain text entry to the runtime
configuration file _sp12dev. Editing this file also allows you to
customize the way sp12 deals with existing uCs. It includes
sp12: Spider Prog In-System Programmer
NOTE: SP12 is a dangerous binary, it will need
(use) root privilegs! Read the RPM header text too.
HINT (by Onno Kortmann):
" ... Hello!
Mabe you can add a hint to your review of the various tools, that sp12
is sometimes very useful. Why? Here: It can program older AT90S1200s
(called AT901200(A) in the Program) which other boards and/or programs
(I've even tried my STK500 on them!) can't do. I was very disappointed
with my charge of '1200s before I found out that SP12 can indeed access
them using ISP and a dummy cable like for uisp. For some parts, there
is even another hack needed, you need to lower the voltage to about 4
volts (this exceeds the maximum ratings but works ok for me) before the
device responds to programming commands.
Disclaimer: I'm in no way related to the development of SP12, just a
user of it and this feature can really be important.
The information on this topic is available, but very hard to find on
the net, this is the reason why I wrote this email.
Best regards,
Onno ... "
For more informartion see:
Jon Anders
Haugum's AVR Programming Tool -- avrp is a GNU GPL'ed software to use
with programmers using Atmel's communication standard for serial-port
programmers. These programmers support AVR and AT89 devices. avrp
supports often used serial/parallel adapters:
avr910 Standard Atmel Serial
Programmer (Low Cost)
avrprogger Adrian's Parallel AVR
programmer
For more informartion see:
programmer is a set of
tools for AVR programming by Wolfgang Wieser. He has develop a
parallel and a USB based AVR programmer. In this package you will find
the host programming tools and all the documentation you want to
rebuild your own&programmer hardware.
Supported programmer:
Parallel ()
For more informartion see:
collection of some usefull command line tools and utilities. It
srecord-1.26 a collection of
powerful tools for manipulating EPROM load files -- comes from:
bin2hex-1.00 converts raw binaries
into Intel hex format -- comes from:
hex2bin-1.0.4 converts
Intel/Motorola hex files into raw binary -- comes from:
comps19-1.3 Motorola S19 record
comparison program -- comes from:
hexdump-1.5 a simple program for
dumping binary files in hexadecimal format -- comes from:
HexModify-1.0 a program that can
modify bytes in intel hex files to use it to give unique serial numbers
to software in embedded systems -- comes from:
GENtoHEX-0.4 converts Atmel
GENERIC files to Intel HEX is used by the AVRprog frontend to
support Intel HEX files as output. -- comes from:
HEXtoGEN-0.3 converts Intel HEX
files to Atmel GENERIC is used by the AVRprog frontend to
support Intel HEX files as input -- comes from:
avr2iar / iar2avr converts between
the two different AVR once the Atmels AVR assembler
and others the IAR assembler -- comes from: SORRY I DON'T
KNOW ANY MORE :-(
jtag-0.6cvs JTAG Tools is a
software package which enables working with JTAG-aware (IEEE 1149.1)
hardware devices (parts) and boards through JTAG adapter. This package
has open and modular architecture with ability to writing miscellanous
extensions (like board testers, flash memory programmers, and so on). Warning:
This software may damage your hardware!
Supported JTAG adapters/cables:
ARCOM Arcom JTAG Cable
ByteBlaster Altera
ByteBlaster, ByteBlaster II, ByteBlasterMV Parallel Port Cable
DLC5 Xilinx DLC5 JTAG Parallel
EA253 ETC EA253 JTAG Cable
EI012 ETC EI012 JTAG Cable
KeithKoep Keith & Koep
JTAG cable
MPCBDM Mpcbdm JTAG cable
WIGGLER Macraigor Wiggler JTAG
It comes from:
javr-2.8 JTAG Programmer for
Atmel's ATMega series of MCUs that has a JTAG interface. Not all
devices are currently supported. The software currently only supports
the byteblaster interface as defined by Altera. It comes from:
ftdi_eeprom-0.2
Tool for creating/reading/erasing/flashing FTDI USB chip eeproms. It
comes from:
+++ CANCELED +++ BIEW-cvs (AVR
disassembler inclusive) is a free, portable,
advanced file viewer with built-in editor for binary, hexadecimal and
disassembler modes. It contains a highlight
PentiumIV/K7-Athlon/Cyrix-M2 disassembler, full preview of MZ, NE, PE,
LE, LX, DOS.SYS, NLM, ELF, a.out, arch, coff32, PharLap, rdoff
executable formats, a code guider, and lot of other features, making it
invaluable for examining binary code.
with the included AVR support you can view and disassemble AVR
binaries and/or ELF files and archives -- it comes from:
collection of some usefull graphical tools and utilities. It includes:
Mfile-1.46 Mfile - a simple
Makefile generator for AVR-GCC
The main purpose of this small application is to provide people an easy
way to setup their project's Makefiles for &relatively
standard& projects, so one could start using AVR-GCC without
first studying the AVR's datasheet, plus the avr-libc documentation
(really recommended!), /plus/ the &GNU make& user
It comes from:
avrdelayloop-0.3 creates delay
loops for Atmels AVR microcontrollers (in assembler). The user can
specify the number of cycles to wait, or alternatively the amount of
time and the clock frequency. Install avrdelayloop if you need to
perform any of these types of actions on your AVR developer code. Only
some novice programmers or hunter of nice developer tools will want to
install avrdelayloop. -- comes from:&
Geany is a small
lightweight
integrated development environment. It was developed to provide a small
and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages.
Another goal was to be as independent as possible from a special
Desktop Environment like KDE or GNOME. So it is using only the GTK2
toolkit and therefore you need only the GTK2 runtime libraries to run
Basic features of Geany:
syntax highlighting
code completion
auto completion of often used constructs like if, for
auto completion of XML and HTML tags
many supported filetypes like C, Java, PHP, HTML,
Python, Perl, Pascal
symbol lists
For more informartion see:&
JTAGICE is a
command-line tool which implements most of the JTAGICE protocol is
being developed. It may help with the effort by allowing you to send
commands directly to the JTAGICE to make it easier to spy on the jtag
signals generated. It includes:
jtagice: AVR JTAG communication shell
For more informartion see:
For jtag signal spying have a look at:
For AVR JTAG OCD (Private) Commands:
For homebrewed ICE:
(former: )
Some interesting documents:
7. Examples, Tutorials:
"How to use
AVR GDB with Simulavr and DDD as frontend"
Original version was coming from:
"Porting the
AVR Butterfly Application to avr-gcc" &by Martin Thomas
Enhancements:
key click patch by Cougar (http://www.version6.net)
ported version of the code "Source for US seminars
HVAC_SEM.zip" by Richard Wynn (based on application-gcc-port version
"How to use the AVR Ada implementation"
Meaning of colors:
projects with most significant development work
in about all cases there are more than one core
projects with sporadical release flow
about each project will be maintained by only one
programmer
obsoleted and/or non continued projects
initiators, authors, and core developer
undiscoverable or without furthermore development work