Chameleon-AVR Nurve Networks, Chameleon-AVR Datasheet - Page 77

• 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

15.1.1 Installing AVR Studio 4.xx (Optional)
Installing AVR Studio is relatively straightforward as long as you know what you’re doing to begin with. This is the problem
with many IDEs and installation programs; you have to install the tool to figure out what not to do and then in many cases
un-install the tool then re-install it. To save you all this grief, we are going to install the tool together step by step with a
complete set of screen shots of each step along with explanations. Thus, without further ado, let’s get this done. The first
step is to locate and launch the AVR Studio 4.xx installer. The file is located on the DVD here:
At this point, please launch the AVR Studio installation program. You should see the initial splash screen as show in
Figure 15.2.
NOTE
AVRISP MKII – This is the actual hardware programmer that is recommended for the Chameleon AVR 8-Bit. The
programmer only supports programming and not debugging, but is low cost and very versatile. The programmer must
be installed as well and its firmware potentially updated. This installation will be done after the other tools are
installed, so AVR Studio 4.xx specifically can update any drivers needed for the tool, since AVR ISP is integrated into
the AVR Studio IDE itself.
WinAVR – This is a GNU GCC compiler installation that works on Windows that integrates the GNU GCC compiler
and appropriate tools such as the GNU Assembler, Linker, and Make tools all in a single Windows installation
package. Thus, after we install AVR Studio 4.xx, we will install WinAVR to give the IDE C/C++ support. In addition to
the GCC compiler, the 3
your C/C++ programs. It more or less implements the standard C/C++ library, but additionally has a multitude of AVR
and embedded system specific functions and libraries along with it.
AVR Studio 4.xx and WinAVR are located on the DVD-ROM at these locations:
DVD-ROM:\ CHAM_AVR \ TOOLS \ AVR \ AvrStudio417Setup.exe
DVD-ROM:\ CHAM_AVR \ TOOLS \ AVR \ WinAVR-20090313-install.exe
DVD-ROM:\ CHAM_AVR \ TOOLS\ AVR \ AvrStudio417Setup.exe
AVRISP MK II (AVR ISP) is simply a piece of hardware and Windows will detect it and
install the drivers from the AVR Studio install, thus there is no software per se that we
need to worry about. However, if you wanted to install AVR ISP by itself then there are
stand alone programming applications from Atmel. But, we aren’t going to consider
them since we will use AVR Studio which has programming and debugging built in.
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You can always download the latest copy of the install from Atmel directly; however,
small changes in the installation and setup may de-synchronize what you see here in
these page, thus, let’s just use the same installation packages on the DVD. You can
always update later after you have installed the complete tool chain and have it
working.
rd
party run-time C/C++ library named “AVR Libc” is installed which you can leverage for
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