-AVR News

Finaly WinAVR has a new stabile buil. As mentioned in RC2 they have changed several things in new build:

• Simplified installer no more un-installation of previous version, so you need to un-instal older version before installing new one;

• Registry keys are tied to WinAVR version, what will allow to have multiple instances of WinAVR's on same machine;

• Newer GCC 4.1.2 included;

• New version of avr-libc1.4.6 with many bug-fixes;

• New version of GDB/Insight 6.5 with expanded manual. GDB is no more tied to Cygwin – it is native WIN32 executable;

• support foe newer devices added (AT90USB82, AT90USB162, Atmega325P, Atmega3250P, Atmega329P, Atmega3290P, AT90PWM1, Atmega16HVA, ATmega8HVA );

• LibUSB-Win32 drivers included to work with Atmel JTAG ICE mkII and AVRISP mkII;

• New version of Srecord 1.31;

• New version of Programmers Notepad 2.0.7.667-devel;

• Newer MFile with updated template.

This is quite long waited release for those who are working with ATmega2560, and ATmega2561

devices. WinAVR20070122 major changes are:

• GCC compiler jumped to 4.1.1 version;

• Added devices ATmega2560, and Atmega2561;

• DWARF2 debugging information moved from 16 to 32 bit addresses. Now debugging is possible with bigger than 64k codes for Atmega128, Atmega1281 and new devices ATmega2560, and Atmega256. Good news for AVR Studio users. AVRStudio V4.13 is now available as a Beta at http://www.atmel.no/beta_ware/ that supports 32bit debugging;

• Package also includes new AVR-Libc with new examples and many bugs fixed;

• New AVRDude 5.3.1;

• New AVRICE with AVR JTAG ICE mkII support;

• New Binutils and Srecord;

• And of course updated Makefile template and Mfile as well.

This is good news for those who more than one working places. It is not convenient to install separate WinAVR development toolsets in separate computers and care about them. There is a solution. Now you can run your WinAVR suite directly from USB memory stick or other portable media without prior installation. You can download it from here Portable WinAVR its Free.

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