I just got my OM128. After I made my DB9 connector and plugged the OM128 and the db9 onyo my bread board, I got it working and blinking at me.

I then started AVR Studio and got the helloworld example program loaded. I also included the omdevice files and it compiled and built perfectly.

It downloaded easily and started sending data out to the console! Perfect and seamless. It was easier than I have ever had it when writing and programming a device. I love the whole idea of the bootloader!!!! This rocks!!!!

Now to adapt this example (which has a UART stream, and a heartbeat timer all written) to do a little more.

-Tony

I'm happy to hear it is all working for you and you like the bootloader/downloader supplied with the om128.

All we need to do now is get you into a real development environment (e.g. Eclipse) rather than AVR Studio Here is an incomplete writeup.

Hmmm, Eclipse looks interesting. Do you use it? I will have to do a search for the source for the AVR version.

I find that Studio does fine for the things I want, but maybe my wants are more limited by my imagnination than I know! I'd love to see what else is available. I will upload my first sample project in a separate post.

I have used Eclipse but not recently. The Eclipse IDE and CDT plugin are architecture independent. They reuse the command-line tools like avr-gcc and avr-gdb to compile and debug code. You can import your own Makefiles or have them generated for you.

In my previous append is a link to some install instructions on top of WinAVR. I actually want to do this in the near future as I recently updated my machine at home and this (Eclipse) is one of the last things to add. I will let you know the results in the AVR forum.