Re: Programming all fuse and lock bits, as well as Flash and EEPROM

At 13:11 16/07/2003 +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote:

>G'day,
>
>    Does anyone know what is a good linux-hosted way to fully
>    program/fuse/lock the range of AVR microcontrollers? (Looked through
>    the archives, finding only one related post.)

See http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/uisp/ , it can program all the 
lock/fuse bits.  You can of course add the fuse/lock bit programming to the 
command line along with FLASH/EEPROM programming so all is achieved in one 
session.

Best Regards,

Jason Kyle


>    A sufficient hardware component seems to present itself, if I
>    correctly interpret Atmel's STK500.pdf:
> >>>
>    The STK500 supports all Programming modes of all AVR microcontrollers 
> in the
>sockets as well as ISP Programming of external target systems.
>    ...
>    The Flash, EEPROM, and all Fuse and Lock Bit options can be programmed
>individually or with the sequential automatic programming option.
><<<
>
>    But the avrdude manpage states:
> >>>
>    Avrdude supports Atmel's STK500 programmer as well as a simple
>    hard-wired programmer connected directly to a ppi(4) parallel port.
>    ...
>    Avrdude can program the EEPROM and flash ROM memory cells of
>    supported AVR parts.  Where supported by the serial instruction
>    set, fuse bits and lock bits can be programmed as well.
><<<
>
>    A good deal of documentation points out that serial programming
>    cannot set all of the fuse and lock bits on various AVR products.
>
>    What do avrdude users do when it's time to play with the increasing
>    complement of "fuse" bits in recent AVR offerings? (Do all the AVR
>    fuse and lock bits live in the "hfuse" and "lfuse" bytes that appear
>    in the avrdude html "Terminal Mode Examples"?)
>
>    Is there perhaps a more complete solution that should be considered?
>
>Regards,
>Erik