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AVR Boot Loader

An AVR board with a bootloader can be used to learn AVR hardware and programming using assembly or C. These boards communicate with AVRstudio via the AVR-Prog utility and have either an RS-232 or USB interface. The bootloader allows programming of the microcontroller by entering programming mode on power-up or reset and receiving code from AVR-Prog, then jumping to the start of flash memory. A board with a bootloader is resistant to issues from improper clock or bit configuration and is cost-effective for learners as a separate programmer is not required.

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AVR Boot Loader

An AVR board with a bootloader can be used to learn AVR hardware and programming using assembly or C. These boards communicate with AVRstudio via the AVR-Prog utility and have either an RS-232 or USB interface. The bootloader allows programming of the microcontroller by entering programming mode on power-up or reset and receiving code from AVR-Prog, then jumping to the start of flash memory. A board with a bootloader is resistant to issues from improper clock or bit configuration and is cost-effective for learners as a separate programmer is not required.

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AVR Board with BootLoader

AVR boards with boot-loader can be your first AVR board


to familiarize with AVR hardware and to learn AVR
programming using either assembly language or AVR C
language (WinAVR).
The Boards as represented above come either with RS232
interface or USB interface.

The communication with AVRstudio is through AVR-Prog


utility. To burn the flash with your code you must either
cycle the power off/on or press reset. The system enters into
programming mode and waits for communication from
AVR-prog utility for a few seconds. Upon time out it Jumps
to location 0x0000 (infact flashend+1). If during the wait
cycle AVR-prog is activated the system enters into
programming mode and the user program can be
downloaded. Due to the use of LPM and SPM commands the
programming is quite safe and it is not easy to corrupt the
boot-loader program.
Out of all the available options I find Board with Bootloader
to be the most immune to AVR hang-up due to improper
configuration of either clock setting or other bits as the
boards come fully configured (with clock etc.) and
Bootloader programs can have in-build safety to prevent un-
necessary modification to the hardware configuration. More
over this configuration is the most cost effective for learners
as it does not require separate programmer.

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