[McHUG] Just checking

[Rich Mitchell]

Gary,

Thanks for the info.  I used AVR Studio just as a loader when I was playing with the Atmel Butterfly using Pardue's C book.  So I guess it is time to expand my horizons.  

Do you want a BareBones Board kit with the ATmega168?  I probably could also do a Brainerd board with an Si570 CMOS, if you want to play with this stuff.  I could bring it along and we could meet, say, at the ARRL table at a pre-arranged time.  If I remember it, I will be wearing a blue flop had with N3III on it and some buttons on it like "CW Forever".

Rich, N3III
--
McHUG - Physical Computing ;) 
MicroController Ham User Group

-------------- Original message from gcarl at garychatters.com: -------------- 


> For my one AVR project a couple of years ago I used AVR Studio 4, version 
> 4.11. It looks like they are up to 4.14 now. 
> 
> AVR Studio is a fairly complete development environment, including a 
> simulator. AFAIK it only runs on Windows, so if you want to work in a 
> *nix environment you'll have to find something else. 
> 
> If you want a Linux system take a look at avrlab 
> http://avrlab.sourceforge.net/ which is an IDE using Tom's AVR assembler 
> http://www.tavrasm.org/. I have not tried these yet. 
> 
> Working with the AVR in assembler was a fun project. For most work, I 
> would not recommend using assembler, but the AVR architecture was fairly 
> easy to work with. My project involved interrupt handling and shuffling 
> data around, so assembler was appropriate for the project. The program 
> amounted to only about 2K bytes. 
> 
> I did try upgrading AVR Studio to the next version, but found that macro 
> expansion was broken. I did not really need to do any more work with that 
> device, so did not make any effort to workaround the problem and I do not 
> know if the problem has been fixed since then. 
> 
> I do plan to be at the MFMA hamfest. 
> 
> Gary 
> 
> > Pete, 
> > 
> > Got back from FL last Sunday. 
> > 
> > Just got in a new book "AVR: An Introductory Course" by John Morton. But 
> > this is not C or Arduino's C. It's Assembler - looks like fun. I may 
> > have to use AVR Studio to program, but possibly the WinAVR environment 
> > could be used if I knew how to set up the make file. I know it handles 
> > inline assembler. I'm going to try to run through the course using the 
> > ATmega168. 
> > 
> > I have the Brainerd boards which go with the Si570s. I need to sort 
> > through them, in case the kits need to be parted out. 
> > 
> > We need to do a MeetToEat and set up our next workshop. Anybody going to 
> > be at West Friendship this Sunday for the FM hamfest? If so, I'll CU 
> > there. 
> > 
> > Rich 
> > 
> 
> ______________________________________________________________ 
> McHUG mailing list 
> Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/mchug 
> Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmmain.htm 
> Post: mailto:McHUG at mailman.qth.net