USBasp - USB programmer for Atmel AVR controllers

USBasp is a USB in-circuit programmer for Atmel AVR controllers. It simply consists of an ATMega8 and a couple of passive components. The programmer uses a firmware-only USB driver, no special USB controller is needed.

Features

  • Works under multiple platforms. Linux, Mac OS X and Windows are tested.
  • 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).
  • Planned: serial interface to target (e.g. for debugging).

Download

Circuit, Firmware, Patch for avrdude and precompiled version for Windows:
usbasp.2005-04-21.tar.gz (168,4kB)

Links

eng http://www.obdev.at/products/avrusb/ Firmware-only AVR USB driver
eng http://www.nongnu.org/avrdude/ AVRDUDE - AVR Downloader/UploaDEr
eng http://libusb.sourceforge.net/ libusb
eng http://libusb-win32.sourceforge.net/ LibUsb-Win32

~ by anoedie on February 27, 2007.

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One Response to “USBasp - USB programmer for Atmel AVR controllers”

  1. Digital Glamour Modeling

    good stuff

    digital-glamour.com said this on January 11, 2008 at 7:29 am

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