Re: [avr-chat] Do people like the XMEGA?

[Rick Mann]

On Feb 14, 2013, at 21:05 , Bill Gatliff <address@hidden> wrote:

> I'll second Eric's vote: AVR XMEGA is good stuff.
> 
> I has an instruction set architecture and peripheral mix that isn't 
> completely schizophrenic (I'm looking at you, Microchip).  And the gcc 
> support is excellent, both standalone and via AVR Studio.
> 
> I use the AVR Dragon adapter to debugWIRE, but I have played with avrdude and 
> been pretty satisfied too.

Thanks for that feedback. I'm quite familiar with ATmega parts, and prefer them 
tremendously to Microchip (schizophrenic is a great way to describe PICs).

I have an older JTAG Mk II, and a serial and USB AVRISP (Mk I/II). I see some 
stuff in the docs about using PDI to program XMEGA parts via recent versions of 
AVR Studio; does avrdude do this with the AVRISP Mk II?


-- 
Rick