Hi,

It's an extendable system and some users have provided their settings that I include with the visual micro plugin.

It depends on which board and arduino ide (or core) you are using?

Ok so no one has any idea what I have to do?

Sorry for the delayed response. i wanted to do some testing.

The ICE in atmel uses atprogram.exe which is installed with atmel studio. it can be displayed in vs with some tweaking but best avoided.

Interesting to know avrdude works. I will look at adding an option and tell you how to try it yourself over next few days

Any success so far?

Sorry I have been bogged down.

If you look in tools>options>visual micro>version>assembly you will see where visual micro is installed

Below that folder you will find "Micro Platforms\Arduino16x" below that folder you will find avr/sam etc.

In the avr folder you will find programmers.atmel.txt

You can name a copy and rename to programmers.vs.txt

In the same folder there is a platform.txt. the programmer and platform text files are normal arduino build/config files. You can edit them for your own use and hardcode paths etc.

The important path will be atprogram.exe which is installed with atmel. I suggest you install atmel 6.2 and point the atprogram.exe to the location of the atmel6.2 bin directory. You don't need to use atmel but you need the atprogram.exe and the other files that are installed with it.


if you change programmers.txt or platform.txt then you have to click tools>vsiual micro>reload toolchains or restart the ide

Does avrdude support your programmer?

If so you can find the details on the internet and yes, you are right, that will be easier to configure.

Excellent. I am not an expert with programmers but I know how to configure the settings if you can find them.

In this case we will use and example from the programmers.txt of the "arduinoide\hardware\arduino\cores\avr" folder

The arduino programmers.txt contains AVRISP MKII etc, so we can copy and change to work the way we want. I can help with that if you find the avrdude commands.

The programmers file is below where you have installed your arduino ide

Mine is here:-

D:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino\hardware\arduino\avr\programmers.txt

In the file you can see a number of programmers defined. This is what is defined for the avrisp mkII

avrispmkii.name=AVRISP mkII
avrispmkii.communication=usb
avrispmkii.protocol=stk500v2
avrispmkii.program.protocol=stk500v2
avrispmkii.program.tool=avrdude
avrispmkii.program.extra_params=-Pusb
 

You can copy and create your own adding -c atmelice_isp to the extra_params option. Maybe the avrispmkII is not the best choice, you can look and decide which closly matches what you want.

xor_ice.name=ICE Programmer for Xor
xor_ice.communication=usb
xor_ice.protocol=stk500v2
xor_ice.program.protocol=stk500v2
xor_ice.program.tool=avrdude
xor_ice.program.extra_params=-Pusb -c atmelice_isp
 

Hope this makes sense.

Xor wrote on Feb 16^th, 2016 at 8:05pm:


Useful thanks

Was my example exactly what you used?

Understood thanks. I asked because I am considering adding the programmer to the visual micro programmers.txt system we discussed originally. 

The visual micro system appends to the arduino core programmers list and this one would be useful.

Will it work for all the avr boards?