[avrdude-dev] Support for Futurlec AVR development boards

[Gianmario.Scotti]

Hello,


I have added an entry to avrdude.conf, so that the cheap yet very 
good futurlec.com development boards should be supported.
I have tested it with the 90S8535 development board:
http://www.futurlec.com/AT8535DevBoard.shtml

but the 2313
http://www.futurlec.com/ATDevBoard.shtml
should work as well.

I'm thrilled that I'll be able to use AVRdude to program this
board, since the software that comes with it is really sad: it
supports only Flash RAM programming. Nothing else. Not even reading
of the Flash RAM, let alone writing the EEPROM or reading it.

You have to add the following to avrdude.conf:

----------------------------------------------------
programmer
        id = "futurlec";
        desc = "Futurlec.com programming cable.";
        type = par;
        reset = 3;
        sck = 2;
        mosi = 1;
        miso = 10;
;
----------------------------------------------------

It wasn't hard, except that the schematic that comes with the board
is incorrect, so I had to re-draw parts of it before I could implement
these changes to avrdude.conf.


One problem I noticed: AVRdude seems to leave MOSI low, even when it
finds it high. That's really strange, as AVRdude is supposed to leave
the port as it has found it - that's supposedly the default behaviour.



cheers


        mario