[sdiy] AVR Mystery Solved!

[Tim Ressel]

Yo,

Naw, it happens to all of us. Just recently I put an
opamp in backwards. There are so many little details
to this ever-changing complex world, and we get so
focused on looking at the trees that we cannot see the
forest. I rely heavilly on the wonderful folks on this
list to bail me out whenever I get stuck. These guys
are the best!

--tr

--- patchell <patchell at silcom.com> wrote:
>     Well, I solved the mystery of why my AVR was
> giving me erratic
> behavior...and thanks to all those who made
> suggestions.  Even though
> none of them solved the problem directly, they did
> help me eliminate
> them as posible causes.
> 
>     Now, I will tell you what the problem is despite
> the fact that it
> will make me look like a complete moron.  But, who
> knows, it might help
> somebody in the future.  Turns out that in the
> project file of the C
> compiler (I use the Image Craft AVR C compiler), the
> device type was set
> to "Custom".  As soon as I set it to "8515"
> everything started working
> fine.  I found this by going over some old ground. 
> In one of my
> previous posts I said that the code ran 100%
> reliably on the STK200
> card...turns out, this was not true.  Somehow, I was
> just lucky before
> that it worked every time I turned the power on. 
> When I tried it again,
> I got the same behavior that I got on my Synth
> Board.
> 
>     So, in the end, it turned out to be a software
> problem instead of
> hardware...(being a hardware dude, I usually blame
> the software first,
> this time I was wrong).
> 
> --
>  -Jim
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> * Visit:http://www.silcom.com/~patchell/
> *-----------------------------------------------
> *I'm sure glad Merry Christmas comes just once a
> year
> * -Yogi Yorgensen
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> 
> 


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