Hi,
I apologise if this topic has been done to death here (like 'PIC programmers') but I searched and came up with two results, so I would like a little advice.
Right, I've got an amtega88 laying around here that I bought on a whim, so its about time I got started working with it (and possibly other AVR's). I'm happy with PIC's, so I'm not going near any sort of debate.
My question is, is there a simple serial programmer (no micro's in it, just passives and possibly a logic chip) that will work with official atmel software? I've googled my heart out, and the number of options for programmers is frankly overwhelming, serial, parallel, really simple ones for pony prog, serial ones with micro's in them, USB, ICE etc..
Rather than spending £30+ for something that I may not persue there appear to be plenty of DIY programmers on the web, like AVRISP (with a micro in it), and the ones from Olimex https://www.olimex.com/dev/avr-pg1.html - for serial. I don't like using seperate PC programs for writing/compiling and then loading the software onto chip, but I'm unsure of what programmers AVRstudio supports. I'll avoid JTAG, and debuggers for now, just a simple programmer that works with AVRstudio, serial (want to use a USB->serial convertor) not parallel, and that covers the atmega series.
Any advice would be appreciated guys, cheers,
Blueteeth
I apologise if this topic has been done to death here (like 'PIC programmers') but I searched and came up with two results, so I would like a little advice.
Right, I've got an amtega88 laying around here that I bought on a whim, so its about time I got started working with it (and possibly other AVR's). I'm happy with PIC's, so I'm not going near any sort of debate.
My question is, is there a simple serial programmer (no micro's in it, just passives and possibly a logic chip) that will work with official atmel software? I've googled my heart out, and the number of options for programmers is frankly overwhelming, serial, parallel, really simple ones for pony prog, serial ones with micro's in them, USB, ICE etc..
Rather than spending £30+ for something that I may not persue there appear to be plenty of DIY programmers on the web, like AVRISP (with a micro in it), and the ones from Olimex https://www.olimex.com/dev/avr-pg1.html - for serial. I don't like using seperate PC programs for writing/compiling and then loading the software onto chip, but I'm unsure of what programmers AVRstudio supports. I'll avoid JTAG, and debuggers for now, just a simple programmer that works with AVRstudio, serial (want to use a USB->serial convertor) not parallel, and that covers the atmega series.
Any advice would be appreciated guys, cheers,
Blueteeth