Re: [avrdude-dev] Speeding up flash/eeprom download

[Theodore A. Roth]

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, E. Weddington wrote:

> Matthias Weißer wrote:
>
> > E. Weddington schrieb:
> >
> >> I've also heard that you can get faster downloads using a JTAG ICE
> >> with avarice.
> >
> >
> > For me it was as slow as the AVRISP.
>
>
> But I thought that one can change the speed with the JTAG ICE to make it
> faster (in avarice)? whereas you can't with the AVRISP.

AVRISP (and stk500) uses a 8535 running at < 8 MHz which sets an upper
limit to how fast you can clock the SPI bus. If you build your own
programmer you could run it up to 16 MHz to increase the upper limit. I
suspect that's what he did.

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