Tools

AVR Studio

Here is an example of how to use AVR Studio for tracing the execution of an Ada program.

Create 3 Ada source files:

-- main.adb
with TestProj;

procedure Main is
begin
    TestProj.RunTest;
end Main;

-- TestProj.ads
package TestProj is

    procedure RunTest;

end TestProj;

-- TestProj.adb
with Interfaces;        use Interfaces;
with AVR;
with AVR.MCU;

package body TestProj is

    procedure RunTest is
        Temp : Unsigned_8 := 16#FF#;
    begin
        AVR.MCU.DDRC := 16#FF#; -- Set data direction for port C to output
        loop
            AVR.MCU.PORTC := Temp;
            Temp := Temp - 1;
        end loop;
    end RunTest;

end TestProj;

Copy the demo.gpr and Makefile files from one of the examples to the working directory.

Change the name of demo.gpr to main.gpr, edit the file replacing "Demo" with "Main".

Edit the makefile changing just the MCU line to read:

MCU := atmega128

Run make which creates (among others) a file named main.elf.

Run AVR Studio 4 and select "Open" from the welcome dialog.

Select main.elf

The system prompts with "Save AVR Studio Project File main_elf.aps", select save.

Select AVR Simulator and atmega128

Select finish.

The source for system.ads is opened with a debug cursor at the start of the file.

At this point you can step the debugger to run the simulator.

With the simple example program if you look at PORTC in the I/O view the value on the port will count as you step when you get to the loop in RunTest.

Debugger GDB

avrdude

Tool for uploading the program to the target board. It can also read and write the eeprom and can control the fuses.

AvrCalc

Jack Tidwell's nice utility for getting the Baud divider and and timer constants
[img src=AvrCalc.jpg]

WormFood's AVR Baud Rate Calculator

Object Utilities

GNU binutils

objdump

avr-objdump

nm

avr-nm