Monday, November 24, 2008

Coding Environment for the Atmel MCUs

Getting my computer setup with development tools. I decided to go with Eclipse CDT and found a good resource to getting the AVR plugin's setup from the FriendlyARM Blog. I'm also using tortoise.svn with subclipse plugin as my SCM for this project. Hosting the source files on a MyBook World Edition hacked to run apache SSL and the svn mods. Should make it easy if I decide to share this project in the future.

Environment
tortoise SVN 1.5.5 - http://tortoisesvn.net/downloads
Maven 2.0.9 - http://maven.apache.org/download.html
Java 1.6.0_10 - http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp
Eclipse IDE for Java Dev - http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
- SVN Plugin - http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.4.x
- CDT - http://download.eclipse.org/tools/cdt/releases/ganymede
- Maven - http://m2eclipse.sonatype.org/update
- AVR - http://avr-eclipse.sourceforge.net/updatesite

I have found that the CDT and avr plugins are so awesome.  They generate the makefiles and will actually auto discover the type and speed of the MCU and download the files directly to the MCU as well.  Great stuff!

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