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| GMZombie:
ic ic. the particular programmer i had was from back in the days of DSS testing and it always programmed the chip i know that much. but what you said makes sense. so do you think the stk500 is the easiest to use that will help me on my quest or do you think something like a willem universal progammer will work better? i will check out the avr freaks website too as i didnt even know they existed before lol |
| MonMotha:
Either should do. The STK500 can sometimes be had cheap or free if you talk to your local Atmel rep nicely enough. The Willem device is more universal though (STK500 only does AVR whereas the Willem device will do all sorts of other MCUs, ROMs, etc.). There's also now the STK600 that supports the new AVRxmega and AVR32 devices, but I don't think you'd have any use for that, and it's more expensive and complicated. There are some better design parallel port programmers out there, too. They include level shifters and such so that you'll get reliable communication in the presence of low voltage parallel ports and whatnot. They can generally be built on a protoboard. |
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