AVR-Chat

--- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Curtis" <plc@r...> wrote:

> I was only making you aware ...

Let's just forget the "stealing" thing.

> > > ... I have heard from people within Atmel...

> > Well, this could be from the horse's mouth
> > or from some other orifice. 
> 
> Hmm, it's from the person responsible for the JTAGICE.

As an engineer, I can see why the person responsible for the JTAGICE 
would object to cloning but this may not be Atmel's corporate 
position. I do not plan to ask. It would probably take forever and 
the easiest/safest thing for an Atmel empoloyee to so would be to say 
no without really finding out.

> [AVR Studio] is the only software ...
> to support the ICE{3,4,5}0 

But WinAVR supports the JTAG-ICE, which is great.

> ... to make it really useful, shove an
> FTDI USB<->RS232 chip on the end ...

Shhhhhhhhhh! (That's the plan.)

Graham.