AVR Development

Atmel AVR is a range of 8-bit RISC microcontrollers with several sub-families such as tinyAVR (also known as ATtiny) and megaAVR (also known as ATmega), amongst others. The Atmel AVR micros are well supported in the FOSS world with complete development tool chains such as a C compiler, simulator, debugger, downloader etc.

Support in Debian GNU/Linux and variants

The Atmel AVR "toolchains" have been available for Debian/Ubuntu Linux for some years. Specifically:

• binutils-avr - Binary utilities supporting Atmel's AVR targets
• gcc-avr - The GNU C compiler (cross compiler for avr)
• gdb-avr - The GNU Debugger for avr
• simulavr - Atmel AVR simulator
• avrdude - software for programming Atmel AVR microcontrollers

All the other usual tools such as make, editors, version control etc. can be used as per any other development project.

External links

• Atmel AVR on Wikipedia