AVR Butterfly!

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  • …just a few free pins

  • $20 ATmega169-based dev board
  • Lots of good stuff, and cheap!
  • AVR Butterfly Product Card here
  • AVRfreaks page on the Butterfly here
  • $19.99 at Digikey ATAVRBFLY-ND
  • Atmel training notes (geared to JTAG ICE) here
  • Port of Atmel Butterfly code to avr-gcc here

Resources Available on the AVR Butterfly Kit:

  • ATmega169 (MLF-package)
  • LCD-on-glass display with 120 segments, for demonstrating the ATmega169 LCD controller.
  • Joystick, 4-directions with centre push, as user input
  • Piezo element, to play sounds
  • 32kHz Xtal for the RTC
  • 4 Mbit Data Flash, for data storage
  • RS-232 level-converter, for communicating with off-board units
  • Negative Temperature Coefficient (NTC) thermistor, to measure temperature
  • Light Dependent Resistor (LDR), to measure light intenisty
  • 3V button cell battery (600mAh) to provide operating power
  • JTAG emulation, for debugging
  • USI-interface, for additional communication interface
  • Supported by AVR Studio 4.
  • Pre-programmed with a demonstration application, including bootloader
  • No external hardware is required to reprogram the AVR Butterfly

Potential uses:

  • Simple dev board (just need RS-232 cable, some headers and jumper wires)
  • Datalogger (500KByte dataflash!)