Programmers and Debuggers Atmel-ICE USER GUIDE The Atmel-ICE Debugger Atmel-ICE is a powerful development tool for debugging and programming ARM® Cortex®-M based Atmel ® SAM and Atmel AVR ® microcontrollers with. All drivers from Atmel Corp. Atmel-ICE Data Gateway 0 Other devices: Destiny National Instruments 0 Other devices: EDBG Data Gateway 0 Other devices: EDBG Debugger 0 Other devices: EDBG Virtual COM Port.

Although the Arduino programming system is simple and easy to use, when you get into more complex applications (photo attached) it lacks any serious debugging capability. I'm struggling to get Atmel Studio 7 and the Atmel ICE interface working on my Windows 10 PC. I keep getting a variety of error messages that basically say it doesn't see or recognize the attached Arduino board. If you are a newbie like me, you have probably fussed about the lack of documentation. After an extensive Google search I found this page It's loaded with good information. I have no idea why this page isn't referenced in big bold type everywhere you look. To the best of my knowledge, AVRdude.exe is a program that Studio 7 needs to communicate with the Atmel ICE and the Arduino board.

Good documentation on it is found here: It was loaded into my system with Studio 7 or when I plugged in the Atmel ICE. It has a configuration file, 2 versions were loaded automatically, that specifies properties for all the Atmel chips. Within the conf file I find # AVRDUDE's '-C' command line option specifies the location of the # configuration file. The '-c' option names the programmer configuration # which must match one of the entry's 'id' parameter. The '-p' option # identifies which part AVRDUDE is going to be programming and must match # one of the parts' 'id' parameter OK, I did some more digging.

I found it should be installed as an external tool, and since I'm using a Mega2560 this seemed to be just what I need: Looks good until Stage 2: Make note of COM port being used by your Arduino board This is needed in the Arguments line of the 'External Tools' window. A typical Arguments line (from the above web page) would look like this: -C'C: Program Files (x86) Arduino hardware tools avr etc avrdude.conf' -patmega2560 -cwiring -P. COM3 -b115200 -D -Uflash:w:'$(ProjectDir)Debug $(TargetName).hex':i This seems pretty stright forward. The -cwiring would have to be changed to reflect the use of the Atmel ICE, but unlike Windows 7, Windows 10 doesn't provide any information about usb or com port usage.

The Windows 10 device manager does recognize an 'Atmel-ICE Data Gateway' (Driver version 1.0.0.0 is up to date) and that the device is working properly. I'm not sure how that fits into this. Everything I find seems to be 3 or 4 years old and doesn't apply to today's systems.

Does anyone have some up to date information about installing AVRdude? Do I need to replace $(ProjectDir) and $(TargetName).hex for every project I'm working on? I usually have 3 or 4 in development at any one time. More searches and I stumbled onto 'USB View' from Future Technology Devices International. Running it on my machine at Loc211 (this describes the USB hub tree location) I found this listing Device Descriptor: bcdUSB: 0x0200 bDeviceClass: 0xEF bDeviceSubClass: 0x02 bDeviceProtocol: 0x01 bMaxPacketSize0: 0x40 (64) idVendor: 0x03EB (Atmel Corporation) idProduct: 0x2141 bcdDevice: 0x0101 iManufacturer: 0x01 0x0409: 'Atmel Corp.' IProduct: 0x02 0x0409: 'Atmel-ICE CMSIS-DAP' iSerialNumber: 0x03 0x0409: 'J1' bNumConfigurations: 0x01 ConnectionStatus: DeviceConnected Current Config Value: 0x01 Device Bus Speed: High Device Address: 0x01 Open Pipes: 4 Endpoint Descriptor: bEndpointAddress: 0x01 OUT Transfer Type: Interrupt wMaxPacketSize: 0x0200 (512) bInterval: 0x01 OK, I found the USB hub port where the Atmel ICE is connected.

There are a number of additional Endpoint Descriptors and Configuration Descriptors. Dllkit pro free license key. However, this doesn't seem to have the same format that AVRdude requires so where to go from here.