Hello and welcome to the first AVR TV episode of 2008.
2007 was a good year for the AVR, we hope it was for you too and that 2008 will be even better. We wrapped up last year with the little AVR mystery to which we received some relevant response. The STK600 was frequently mentioned. The STK600 is our new, complete starter kit for AVR 8 and 32-bit flash micros. It resembles the STK500 with lots of pin headers, LEDs and buttons, but it has USB connectivity to your PC and this new wafer system for maximum versatility. You have the base connector on the STK600 motherboard where you insert these routing cards for supporting different pin layouts then add socket cards on top, according to the package type that you’re using, creating this wafer. Simple!

The STK600 comes with an ATmega 2560 pre-soldered directly onto a demo routing card and then you order these routing and socket cards separately as needed. And this is the box that the STK600 comes in. Not much more to say actually, the STK600 is already shipping and should cost about 199 Dollars.
But, what nobody guessed in the AVR TV Christmas mystery even though we were mentioned it indirectly in AVR TV in 2007 is this:

The AVR One is a new, powerful development tool for on-chip debugging and programming of all AVR and AVR32 devices. Yes, that’s right! All AVR and AVR debugging interfaces will be supported, including JTAG, debugWire, PDI and the Nexus auxiliary interface for high-speed trace. The programming interfaces that will be supported are ISP, JTAG and PDI. PDI stands for Program and Debug Interface and is an ATMEL proprietary interface based on debugWire protocol. PDI is developed specifically with the new Xmega AVR family in mind, being released at Embedded World in Nürnberg as I speak. I keep mentioning AVR32 support here but the intention with the AVR One is of course as the name implies, to have one debugger to rule them all. So even though initial support is for UC3 and AP7 devices, all AVR devices, tinys, megas, UC3, all the way up to the AP7s will be supported, existing and future devices.

So what do you get with AVR One that you don’t get with JTAG Mark 2? Both units will provide basic programming and debugging features like flow control, hardware and software break-points, data break-points etc. But only the AVR One provides buffer or streaming program data or ownership trace. Streaming trace is useful for slower applications where the host computer will be able to continuously receive data from the trace targets. For faster and/or more complex target applications buffer trace is the way to go. The AVR One unit connects to your host computer by USB of course and requires an external power supply that’s included in the box. All the software that you need can be downloaded from our web site, for free.

The RZRAVEN is a new and very interesting demo and evaluation kit from ATMEL. It actually demonstrates quite a few AVR features, concepts and products, it primarily demonstrates our 2.4GHz wireless platform but also our USB part, our PEGA part technology etc. Included in the kit is two AVR RAVENs and one RZ USB stick, free firmware including 802.15.4 mac and communicating stacks and free PC software. The RAVENs themselves are wireless platforms in the AVR Butterfly format, they have 2.4GHz radio connectivity through ATMELs AT86RF230 chips, they have 160 segment LCDs, 2MB of serial flash, joystick, temperature sensor, microphone, oh yes… and a speaker. And on-board STK600, AVR ONE, RavenATmega3290P controls the LCD and other user interface elements and ATmega1284P handles ZigBee stack and RF communications. This solution has been chosen to leave maximum room for user application and both can be programmed by the user. The RZ USB stick, which is a compact PC gateway, also contains a RF230 chip to communicate with the RAVENs. The free PC software contains a demo and management suite and a wireless protocol analyser for good demo effect. It can for example send a text message to both of my RAVENs right here.
- Hello World! Good.

The RAVENs are FCC/ETSI certified and will be available for 99 Dollars in resale. That’s all for now, thanks for watching, stay tuned for more exciting AVR news next time. See you then.