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    Building STK500 AVR ISP Programmer With USB

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    This document summarizes the building of an STK500 AVR programmer clone using a mix of through-hole and SMD parts found in a workshop. It uses an FT232RL USB-to-serial chip to program AVR microcontrollers from Windows, Linux, or MacOS. The Atmega8 chip on the board must be programmed first using another programmer before this clone can be used. Instructions are provided on flashing the Atmega8 firmware and using the clone in AVRStudio IDE.

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    Building STK500 AVR ISP Programmer With USB

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    This document summarizes the building of an STK500 AVR programmer clone using a mix of through-hole and SMD parts found in a workshop. It uses an FT232RL USB-to-serial chip to program AVR microcontrollers from Windows, Linux, or MacOS. The Atmega8 chip on the board must be programmed first using another programmer before this clone can be used. Instructions are provided on flashing the Atmega8 firmware and using the clone in AVRStudio IDE.

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    This document summarizes the building of an STK500 AVR programmer clone using a mix of through-hole and SMD parts found in a workshop. It uses an FT232RL USB-to-serial chip to program AVR microcontrollers from Windows, Linux, or MacOS. The Atmega8 chip on the board must be programmed first using another programmer before this clone can be used. Instructions are provided on flashing the Atmega8 firmware and using the clone in AVRStudio IDE.

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    Building STK500 AVR ISP Programmer With USB

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    This document summarizes the building of an STK500 AVR programmer clone using a mix of through-hole and SMD parts found in a workshop. It uses an FT232RL USB-to-serial chip to program AVR microcontrollers from Windows, Linux, or MacOS. The Atmega8 chip on the board must be programmed first using another programmer before this clone can be used. Instructions are provided on flashing the Atmega8 firmware and using the clone in AVRStudio IDE.

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    The key takeaways are that the author built their own STK500 compatible AVR programmer using through-hole and SMD parts found on hand. This programmer works with AVRStudio and AVRDude to program AVR microcontrollers.

    An STK500 programmer is a clone of the original AVR STK500 programmer. It uses an FT232RL USB to serial chip and works on Windows, Linux, and MacOS to program AVR microcontrollers in AVRStudio.

    This programmer uses an Atmega8 microcontroller in a DIP package.

    Building STK500 AVR ISP programmer

    with USB
    ScienceProg 30 June, 2013Projects

    Programmer is one of the first things to think of when starting to deal with microcontrollers.
    Luckily it is not hard to build fully working programmer almost for any microcontroller as there
    are tons of open source projects around. So I decided to build stk500 compatible programmer
    which is actually taken from tuxgraphics.com. I decided not to search for same parts as in original
    schematics but use whats on desk. As result I got mix of through hole and SMD soldered board
    that works great.

    Short info about STK500 V2 programmer


    This programmer is a clone of original AVR STK500 programmer. It works on all main
    platforms including Windows, Linux, BSD and MacOS X. This is mainly because as USB to
    serial converter there is a FT232RL chip used with full driver support. Probably main reason to
    build it is that programmer works in AVRstudio where microcontrollers can be programmed
    fluently from same IDE. Also it works fine with AVRDude which would be main application
    for Linux users. This clone gained quite big popularity so you can find lots of variations mostly
    different PCB versions. So mine is yet another one PCB.
    STK500 programmer hardware
    As I mentioned this is quick build from parts found on shelf, this isnt best PCB. Because it uses a
    mix of SMD and through hole parts. Anyway it works as supposed so no problem with that at all.
    Lets get in to some details. I found a FT232BL chip that wasnt used in some earlier project, so I
    decided to use it instead newer FT232RL. It is pretty same chip but older generation. Additionally
    you need to use external 6 MHz crystal and couple more components. Drivers are still supported
    up to Win 7 so it can be still used actively.

    Atmega8 is in DIP package which is easier to remove and program with other programmer
    which can be a bit problem if building first programmer at all. Ask friends to program chip or use
    dirty parallel port programmer to flash it.
    In this programmer I used an USB miniB SMD Connector that came to my hands. There is also a
    solder holes left in case you want to solder an USB cable directly. Programmer has 10 pin and 6
    pin programmer headers. I usually use 6 pin ISP header, so I made cable only for this one.

    Flashing Atmega8
    Is I mentioned you need to program ATmega8 first before use. Latest firmware for it can be
    found here. And dont forget to set fuse bits correctly. FYI fuse bits in PopnyProg should be as
    follows:

    Or simply pass them to AVRdude as follows:

    Low byte: 0xEE;

    High byte: 0xE9.

    Running programmer on AVRStudio


    When running programmer in AVRStudio, select STK500 platform and COM port which was to
    USB serial converter assigned. In my case it is COM5. After clicking Connect it suggests to
    upgrade programmer firmware just skip by pressing Cancel as upgrade function wont work for
    it. Next screen youll see is a STk500 programming dialog where you can select device and
    program it.

    Just a little note about ISP mode settings! If you are trying to flash new AVR where default
    1MHz clock is running, you should select proper ISP frequency as it has to be less than the
    target.
    To flash 1MHz Atmega you should go with 115.2 kHz while 8MHz will do fine with 1.845 MHz.

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