News
2008-06-18 |
Version 2.2 released This is a major release with new features and some bug fixes. Most notably is the full support for avrdude to upload projects to a target AVR MCU. See the Release Notes for details or take a look at the What's new in 2.2 page from the user manual. |
Overview
This Eclipse Plugin provides some tools and settings for developing C programs for the ATMEL AVR series of embedded processors with the Eclipse IDE. It is open source and freely available under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence (GPL)
Why use Eclipse and this plugin?
Eclipse is a very modern IDE with many features. And unlike some other IDEs, due to being Open Source and well supported / documented, many features (like this plugin) are available to extend it even further. While the Eclipse C/C++ support is not as perfect as the Java support, it is still a very nice environment to program in.
This was the reason for writting this plugin. I started off by using the AVR Studio IDE from Atmel, but immediatly felt that features were missing, like Subversion integration or code completion in the source editor.
And with this Plugin you don't have to hassle with makefiles any more. The makefiles for building your application are automatically created.
Features
The plugin provides the following main functions on top of the CDT features:
- Selection of a target processor
- Creating the hex dump image files needed for downloading to an AVR processor
- A viewer showing some information about the selected AVR processor
- Avrdude support to upload a project to a target MCU.
Take a look at the screenshots to see the plugin in action.
Contact
Project web site:
For Feedback, Bug reports and Feature requests please use the the sourceforge project page:
