Monday, May 16, 2011

USB programmer for Atmel AVR controllers (USBasp)

  • One of simple design that most wanted by microcontroller player nowdays especially students.
  • It is a USB in-circuit programmer for Atmel AVR controllers.
  • It simply consists of an ATMega48 or an ATMega8 and a couple of passive components.
  • The programmer uses a firmware-only USB driver.
  • No special USB controller is needed.
Features :
  • No special controllers or smd components are needed.
  • Programming speed is up to 5kBytes/sec.
  • SCK option to support targets with low clock speed (< 1,5MHz).
Details can be found.
http://www.fischl.de/usbasp/

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