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Does visual micro support programming with Atmel ICE?
Aug 5th, 2016 at 3:53pm
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Hi all,

I was wondering if anyone knew whether visual micro in atmel studio supported programming an arduino using an atmel ICE debugger/programmer? I am looking at purchasing one so that I can properly debug my software using atmel studio, but want to continue to use visual micro for its code completion and easy compilation.

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Re: Does visual micro support programming with Atmel ICE?
Reply #1 - Aug 5th, 2016 at 3:55pm
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Hi,

After you build with Visual Micro you can click File>Open object file for debugging

That is an Atmel studio function that ill open a new read-only solution allowing atmel tools to be used to debug

However if you have an Arduino Zero there is an easier solution in Visual Studio.

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Reply #2 - Aug 5th, 2016 at 4:02pm
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I think so! Would I only have visual micro build and not actually upload? Then, I would open my object for debugging(what VM just built) and it would upload and start debugging? 

Currently I will be using an arduino pro mini so no wonderful built in debugging /: But, since the ICE programmer is so cheap it really isnt much of a problem. 

I just want to make sure that in adding debugging support that I don't make writing, compiling and uploading my sketches cumbersome!
  
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Reply #3 - Aug 5th, 2016 at 4:10pm
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I can't recall if it does the upload.

You can compile with visual micro as normal. If it doesn't do the upload then use visual micro as normal.
  
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Reply #4 - Aug 5th, 2016 at 4:12pm
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Awesome! Does VM support the Atmel-ICE as a programmer natively? I see lots of other programmer options but not the ICE. Would it just be a standard ISP programmer?
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Reply #5 - Aug 5th, 2016 at 4:18pm
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Which version of atmel studio?
  
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Reply #6 - Aug 5th, 2016 at 4:24pm
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Preferably the latest, 7. But, if needed I could downgrade to 6.
  
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Reply #7 - Aug 5th, 2016 at 4:26pm
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I thought there was an ice option that a user supplied. I will try to look into it but you can follow arduino guides to add hardware to the avr programmers.txt
  
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Reply #8 - Aug 5th, 2016 at 4:50pm
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awesome, thanks for your help. In searching for how to add the Atmel Ice programmer I did find this http://forum.arduino.cc/index.php?topic=390155.0 thread that seems to show how to do it...can't test yet because I don't have the ICE myself yet.

  
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Reply #9 - Aug 6th, 2016 at 3:09pm
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I'm a bit pushed but will look into it when I can.

The forum search might produce something but don't forget to alter the time span to "all" or it only searches the last couple of weeks.

If you add this to arduinoide/hardware/arduino/avr/programmers.txt an AVR dragon programmer will appear in the list. The default programmer makes uses of avrdude so these are avrdude params we are defining and I guess the ICE won't be that much different.

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dragon.name=AVR Dragon as ISP
dragon.communication=usb
dragon.protocol=dragon_isp
dragon.program.tool=avrdude

  
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