[avrdude-dev] Fwd: Re: [avr-gcc-list] Programming Circuit for AVRDUDE

[E. Weddington]

Note the new programmer description from Larry Barello.

Eric

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> To: "Heiko Rosemann" 
<address@hidden>,"Donovan Parks" 
<address@hidden>
> From: "Larry Barello" <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: [avr-gcc-list] Programming Circuit for 
AVRDUDE
> Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 16:22:02 -0700
> -----
> The STK500 has both a serial and a parallel programmer 
built in.  It is VERY nice for
> recovering the stray CPUs.  For example, I recently made 
100 boards of something and out
> of the first 20 boards I programmed, two of the CPU's had 
the wrong fuse bits set
> (external oscillator).  This is, apparently, from the 
factory!  I didn't need the
> parallel programmer for that problem since I had the 
STK500 (built in oscillator), but
> similar things happen where the *only* way to recover is 
with a proper parallel
> programmer.
> 
> If you do build the sp12 programmer, the following will 
add support for the sp12
> programmer to Avrdude (add to the avrdude.conf file).  
AvrDude is a very nice,
> extensible, programmer!
> 
> programmer
>   id    = "sp12";
>   desc  = "Steve Bolt's Programmer";
>   type  = par;
>   vcc = 4,5,6,7,8
>   reset = 3;
>   sck   = 2;
>   mosi  = 9;
>   miso  = 11;
> ;
> 
>