We love our AVR Dragon programmer but it can be nice to have a cheap and simple in system programmer on hand too. The USBasp is one such programmer that uses and ATmega8 as its only IC.

Kudos! Now the USBasp programmer and the programming adaptor are ready for use. Next step is the preparation of the first AVR C program. AVR Studio provides an IDE for writing, debugging, and ...

Designers who use AVR microcontrollers have no shortage of programming interfaces — we count at least five different methods: ISP/SPI, JTAG, TPI, PDI, and UPDI.