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- # Programming AVR chips
-
- (In this documentation, you are expected to have an AVR binary
- ready to send. To assemble an AVR binary from source, see
- asm.txt)
-
- To program AVR chips, you need a device that provides the SPI
- protocol. The device built in the rc2014/sdcard recipe fits the
- bill. Make sure you can override the SPI clock because the sys-
- tem clock will be too fast for most AVR chips, which are usually
- running at 1MHz. Because the SPI clock needs to be a 4th of
- that, a safe frequency for SPI communication would be 250kHz.
-
- The AVR programmer device is really simple: Wire SPI connections
- to proper AVR pins as described in the MCU's datasheet. Note
- that this device will be the same as the one you'll use for any
- modern SPI-based AVR programmer, with RESET replacing SS.
-
- The AVR programming code is at B160.
-
- Before you begin programming the chip, the device must be desel-
- ected. Ensure with "0 (spie)".
-
- Then, you initiate programming mode with "asp$", and then issue
- your commands.
-
- Each command will verify that it's in sync, that is, that its
- 3rd exchange echoes the byte that was sent in the 2nd exchange.
- If it doesn't, the command aborts with "AVR err".
-
- # Access fuses
-
- You get/set they values with "aspfx@/aspfx!", x being one of "l"
- (low fuse), "h" (high fuse), "e" (extended fuse).
-
- # Access flash
-
- Writing to AVR's flash is done in batch mode, page by page. To
- this end, the chip has a buffer which is writable byte-by-byte.
-
- Writing to the flash begins with a call to asperase, which
- erases the whole chip. It seems possible to erase flash page-by-
- page through parallel programming, but the SPI protocol doesn't
- expose it, we have to erase the whole chip. Then, you write to
- the buffer using aspfb! and then write to a page using aspfp!.
- Example to write 0x1234 to the first byte of the first page:
-
- asperase 0x1234 0 aspfb! 0 aspfp!
-
- Please note that aspfb! deals with *words*, not bytes. If, for
- example, you want to hook it to A!*, make sure you use AMOVEW
- instead of AMOVE. You will need to create a wrapper word around
- aspfb! that divides dst addr by 2 because AMOVEW use byte-based
- addresses but aspfb! uses word-based ones. You also have to make
- sure that A@* points to @ (or another word-based fetcher)
- instead of its default value of C@.
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