Chameleon-AVR Nurve Networks, Chameleon-AVR Datasheet - Page 76

• Manufacturer Part Number: Chameleon-AVR
• Description: MCU, MPU & DSP Development Tools AVR8 & PROPELLER DEV SYSTEM (SBC)
• Manufacturer: Nurve Networks

Specifications of Chameleon-AVR

• Processor To Be Evaluated: AVR 328P
• Data Bus Width: 8 bit
• Interface Type: USB, VGA, PS/2, I2C, ISP, SPI
• Operating Supply Voltage: 3.3 V, 5 V
• Lead Free Status / RoHS Status: Lead free / RoHS Compliant

15.1 Atmel’s AVR Studio Toolchain Overview
Atmel’s AVR Studio is the premier development tool for AVR processors. The tool is 100% free, support assembly
language natively and now with the integration of WinAVR, the tool supports C/C++ seamlessly.
Like all tool chains this can be quite complex and a single incorrect checkbox can wreak havoc on many installation
making them useless. For this reason, we will cover the installation of all main tools in the chain step by step. For those of
you reading that are already expert in installation of AVR tools then you can skim this section and jump to the Arduino tool
installation.
Referring to Figure 15.1, you can see that there are three main components of the tool chain for the Chameleon AVR and
AVR processors in general, they are:
AVR Studio 4.xx – This is the primary IDE developed by Atmel for programming the AVR line of processors. The tool
comes complete with everything you need to program in assembly language, use simulators, debuggers and various
programming tools developed by Atmel as well as 3
compiler (only assembler). For this we will use a free GNU GCC compiler targeted toward AVR processors. Normally,
this would be a very complex task to set up; however, there is another tool called WinAVR that eases this process for
us.
AVR Studio 4.xx
AVRISP MKII (sold seperately)
WinAVR
Figure 15.1 – The relationship of the various AVR programming tools in the tool chain.
rd
party vendors. AVR Studio 4.xx does NOT have a built in
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