Hi, I am a student at the University of Auckland's (New Zealand) Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. Within our department we have a custom piece of hardware (internally known as the 'donkey') which we use to program various AVR micro-controllers.
The unit consists of a small USB dongle which provides a standard AVR ISP pin arrangement as the output. USB-Serial interface is via a FTDI FT232R chip. I have uploaded the schematic diagrams to my website for your information, see: http://svn.webworxshop.com/files/Donkey%20PCB.pdf I am interested in adding support to Avrdude for the donkey, specifically because the current software is windows only and I am a Linux user. The FTDI chip in question is supported and detected by the kernel (mine presents a serial device on /dev/ttyUSB0), so I thought adding support would be as simple as adding the correct .avrduderc file for a serbb programmer. My attempt at this is given below: > programmer > id = "donkey"; > desc = "University of Auckland ECE Donkey"; > type = serbb; > reset = 4; > sck = 7; > mosi = 8; > miso = 2; > ; Unfortunately, you will notice that the miso pin is connected to the RXD pin on the FTDI chip, which according to the comments in /etc/avrdude.conf is not supported. Can anyone tell me why this is and if there is a way to get this programmer working with Avrdude? Thanks in advance, Regards, Rob Connolly _______________________________________________ avrdude-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avrdude-dev
