Programming AVRs with AVRDUDE and USBAsp.

Avrdude needs to be compiled separately from the C source.In addition to this Av

rdude needs USB support in the form of USB drivers. To get around this simply in
stall WinAVR. It installs both Avrdude and the USB drivers.
Please refer to the avrdude documentation for an explanation of what each option
s do. (avrdude-doc-5.4.pdf)
It is assumed that WinAVR has already been installed.
If Avrdude is unable to detect the USB programmer it shows up a message on the c
ommand prompt.

transferring a hex file to the AVR.

1) Go to START. Click run.
2) Type cmd and hit enter.
3) The command prompt opens where you type commands for avrdude.
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Eg 1. Transfer a file called example1.hex to a Mega128 device.
Type avrdude -c usbasp -p m128 -P usb -U flash:w:example1.hex
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Eg 2. Transfer a file called "example1.hex" present on Desktop to a Mega128 devi
ce and change hfuse to 0xfe and lfuse to
0xdc.
Type avrdude -c usbasp -p m128 -P usb -U flash:w:example1.hex -U hfuse:w:0xfe:m
lfuse:w:0xdc:m
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Eg 3. View Avrdude's version number and other details.
Type avrdude -v
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Eg 4. Read the contents of the FLASH memory and store them in a file called test
1.hex
Type avrdude -c usbasp -p m128 -P usb -U flash:r:"c:\test1.hex":i
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Eg 5. Read the contents of the EEPROM memory and store them in a file called tes

t1.eep
Type avrdude -c usbasp -p m128 -P usb -U eeprom:r:"c:\test1.eep":i
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Eg 6. Read the contents of HFUSE and LFUSE and store them in files hfuse.hex and
lfuse.hex
Type avrdude -c usbasp -p m128 -P usb -U hfuse:r:"c:\hfuse.hex":i -U lfuse:r:"c:
\lfuse.hex":i
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Eg 7. Read device signature bytes and store them in a file called sig.hex
Type avrdude -c usbasp -p m128 -P usb -U signature:r:"c:\signature.hex":i
Note: - The signature bytes are fixed for a specific AVR device
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Eg 8. Read device lock bytes and store them in a file called lock.hex
Type avrdude -c usbasp -p m128 -P usb -U lock:r:"c:\lock.hex":i
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Eg 9.Read device RC oscillator calibration bytes and store them in a file called
calibration.hex
Type avrdude -c usbasp -p m128 -P usb -U calibration:r:"c:\calibration.hex":i
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Eg 10. Erase the chip
Type avrdude -c usbasp -p m128 -P usb -e
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Eg 11. Entering terminal mode
In this mode you can communicate with the AVR device in an interactive ma
nner. This mode is useful for Reading/Writing
single bytes into the devic
e
Type avrdude -c usbasp -P usb -p m128 -t
In this mode you can issue commands that read/write data from the AVR device.
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Eg 12. In the interactive mode dump contents of flash memory from location 0 to
location 128
Type dump flash 0 128
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Eg 13. In the interactive mode dump another N bytes of flash memory from where t

he last dump command left off

Type dump flash
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Eg 14. Erase the chip (In interactive mode)
Type erase
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Eg 15. Obtain information about the various commands supported by avrdude (In in
teractive mode)
Type ?
or
Type help
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Eg 16. Display the current part settings and parameters. Includes chip specific
information
including all memory types supported by the device, read/write timing,
etc (In interactive mode)
Type part
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Eg 17. Dump the contents of the EEPROM (In interactive mode)
Type dump eeprom
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Eg 18. Dump the contents of the hfuse (In interactive mode)
Type dump hfuse
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Eg 19. Dump the contents of the lfuse (In interactive mode)
Type dump lfuse
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Eg 20. Dump the contents of the efuse (In interactive mode)
Type dump efuse
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Eg 21. Display the device signature bytes (In interactive mode)
Type sig

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Eg 22. Dump the contents of the EEPROM from location 0 to 9 (In interactive mode
)
Type dump eeprom 0 9
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Eg 23. Quit avrdude (In interactive mode)
Type quit
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