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debugWire w/ Visual Micro ?
Nov 7th, 2016 at 2:49am
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Hi I am a brand new user to Atmel Studio and Visual Micro.  I have been using the Arduino IDE but wanted to upgrade to get better debugging capabilities.   

Can you use debugWire while using Visual Micro in Atmel Studio?

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Re: debugWire w/ Visual Micro ?
Reply #1 - Nov 7th, 2016 at 12:57pm
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Yes debug wire is available in Atmel Studio 7.

Enable the "Use Atmel Studio Debugger" menu item to allow Atmel studio debug to launch after an Arduino compile.

http://www.visualmicro.com/page/Arduino-for-Atmel-Studio-7.aspx

When you try to use the debugger Visual Micro will show some important tips in the output window. The most important is to see how to change the .ino files to a .cpp. If you don't use .cpp instead of .ino the debugger will run but have difficulty locating source code during break/step.

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Re: debugWire w/ Visual Micro ?
Reply #2 - Nov 7th, 2016 at 5:25pm
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Thanks.  Can I use this system to program raw ATTiny85 AVRs, where all the pins are used during the sketch?  It would appear so, because it is stated debugWire only needs to use the reset pin?  My sketch uses I2C and is maxing-out the chip resources pretty much.   

Also does debugWire work with all timer modes on both timers regardless of clock source (including PLL)?  Same for the Visual Micro serial debugger?
  
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Reply #3 - Nov 7th, 2016 at 5:39pm
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Hi,

When the Atrmel Debugger is launched you are entirely into native Atmel Studio debugging so all questions need to be directed to Atmel (because I don't have all the answers).

Often the Atmel debuggers do use pins so can be a problem in that case just use the standard Visual Micro serial debugger if Serial is possible with your project.
  
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Reply #4 - Nov 7th, 2016 at 6:01pm
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Ok does the standard VM debugger work with all AVR timer settings ?
  
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