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Microcontroller Programming » bootloader for ATtiny13
September 16, 2009
by tech20
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this is a smaller one of the avr series, but has anyone downloaded a bootloader for these MCUs. I would greatly appreciate it if someone has made one, or knows a source for these MCUs with the bootloader in them already
September 16, 2009
by mrobbins
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Hi tech20,

The ATtiny series doesn't have bootloader support at all -- you have to program the chips directly via an ISP programmer, such as our parallel port hack (if your computer has a parallel port), or something like the Atmel AVRISP-MKII. Hope that helps!

Mike
January 25, 2011
by alexguiral
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Hi Mike,

What's the smallest MCU from ATmel that supports your great bootloader ?! Thanks !

//Alex
January 26, 2011
by hevans
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Hi Alexguiral,

I'm not too familiar with the entire AVR line but just looking through their website I think the only smaller chip that is still loadable with a similar bootloder is the ATmega48, which is basically the Atmega168's little brother. It only has 4KB of Flash memory and 512 bytes of RAM.

Humberto

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