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Revision as of 16:45, 25 September 2022

Project Glu-MCU
Glu-mcu.jpg
General purpose MCU board with the AVR64DD32 controller
Status In progress
Contact Glu
Last Update 2022-09-25
I use the Glu-MCU as a better replacement for Arduino pro mini boards

The Atmega328 or Atmega32U4 boards nowadays are either hard to get or expensive. And the microcontroller is kinda old.

That's why I decided to make a nice and simple alternative board with the much more powerful AVR64DD32 microcontroller.


There is not much on this board, only the necessities. For programming the UPDI is broken out on the top of the PCB. There is a resistor on the PCB as well so you can connect it directly to any TTL USB serial converter. For programming connect VDD to 3,3V or 5V, GND to GND, OUT to the Rx and IN to the Tx of the serial converter. pymcuprog can program the device in a few seconds.


On the photo I already connected a 4 pin header to VDD, GND, A0 and A1, I use it for debugging via serial. The pin A0 is the standard Tx pin and A1 is the standard Rx pin of USART0.

Programming

For programming I've used platformio. Install the following platforms Atmel AVR and Atmel megaAVR. When starting a new project, use the AVR64DD32 board.

Change the platformio.ini file

PlatformIO Project Configuration File
Build options
build flags, source filter
Upload options
custom upload port, speed and extra flags
Library options
dependencies, extra library storages
Advanced options
extra scripting
Please visit documentation for the other options and examples
https://docs.platformio.org/page/projectconf.html

[env:AVR64DD32] platform = atmelmegaavr board = AVR64DD32 framework = arduino

  1. Everything from here is NOT auto-generated

upload_protocol = custom upload_port = /dev/ttyUSB0 # Define this yourself, for some reason when upload_protocol = custom, $UPLOAD_PORT does not get defined automatically, no clue why

  1. Wipe and write .hex using pymcuprog

upload_command = pymcuprog write -d $BOARD_MCU -t uart -u $UPLOAD_PORT -f $SOURCE --erase --verify