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Introduction movie is on youtube
04/14/2018 at 12:29 • 0 commentsHere we can see the operation of the board. Every three version requires Atmel ICE for UPDI binary uploading. But by googling by the word "UPDI", I've found several implementation by various ways (one of them are on Arduino sketch, Mega328P is working as a converter from serial to UPDI !, great). I thought, the forthcoming next Arduino will be implemented by the same way as conventional Mega328P (like DTR-RST connection through capacitor), but I can add one prediction, 32U4 or something with USB and it may talk with 4809 via UPDI...
By the way, I have a naive question
Why Microchip still release new chip by "Atmel" logo? Atmel logo will remain?
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Evolution of my struggling with ATmega4809
04/14/2018 at 09:39 • 0 commentsActually I have already several "not released" prototyping board. The first one (left of the above) is simple board with 3.3V LDO and 3-tact switch and MikroBus interface. The power is applied through "barrel" connector. The binary is uploaded through UPDI, indeed single wire, interface through Atmel ICE. At this stage, I noticed the importance of USB-UART interface and evolved to the next stage (mid of the above picture). It is pleasantly and comfortably working for checking and testing. But I am "OLED lover". Also the sample program on RTOS delivered by Microchip supports OLED display so the board has the evolution for checking it! (the right of the above picture).
The OLED is connected through SPI with ATmega4809 and as same as previous two version, still binary uploading needs the help of Atmel ICE. But I hope (may be not ?) Arduino.cc will make bootloader supporting UART binary uploading and the DTR of CP2102 is connected to RST of ATmega4809 through 0.1uF capacitor, believing AVR traditional.
If you want to make board with ATmega4809, please use my Eagle library of ATmega4809. The file name of it is "microwavemont_ATMega4809.lbr" will be found in the above link.
It's no worth to imitate this but the circuit is like above. All of the pin has a pin-out or connected to certain devices. In the circuit you will see UPDI 6-pin interface. YES, it is really single pin connection, even without RESET....
Device recognition is as shown above. As a proof of AVR, it has Fuse bit!, but indeed ATmega4809 is more similar to ATXmega, not general AVR like Mega328 or Tiny series in the programming manner. (You will see if you touch this chip., like DDRB is not accepted by ATMega4809 but PORTB.DIRSET)..
Here is quick comparison between:
Mega,Tiny ATMega4809 Port direction DDRB PORTB.DIRSET Value definition PORTB PORTB.OUTSET Actually I have no experience of Xmega, but enjoying ATmega4809 needs several knowledge of Xmega, not well-known simple AVR..