KontrollerLab - Developing software for Atmel(r) AVR(c) microcontrollers

Monday, 05 January 2009 17:44

The KontrollerLab (the old plan called XAvrTools) is an IDE for developing software for Atmel(r) AVR(c) microcontrollers development easier using Linux. The KontrollerLab uses these tools to make developing easier:

avr-gcc and helper programs to compile the C files, link the object files, and assemble the ASM files;
uisp a tool for AVR (and AT89S) microcontrollers which can interface to many hardware in-system programmers. UISP allows you to program your microcontroller through the parallel (or serial) port of your computer, and avrdude (AVR Downloader UploaDEr is a program for downloading and uploading the on-chip memories of Atmel's AVR microcontrollers. It can program the Flash and EEPROM. Where supported by the serial programming protocol, it can program fuse and lock bits. AVRDUDE also supplies a direct instruction mode, allowing one to issue any programming instruction to the AVR chip regardless of whether AVRDUDE implements that specific feature of a particular chip...and his GUI Gnome-AVRDUDE for Gnome desktop environment) to upload and download the programs;
Built-in debugger for PC-only and in-circuit debugging;
Serial terminal embedded in the IDE to ease debugging;
Kate as the editor embedded in the IDE.

You can download source code from here (SVN version) and many package for various GNU/Linux distributions here. For more information and tutorial click here.