Kanda JTAG ICE ?

[Juergen Harms]

Does anybody have experience with the JTAG ICE sold by Kanda for use in
a typical AVR-GCC programming envirement (using it on LINUX, therefore
probably only the serial interface to be considered)? - substantially
cheaper than the Atmel JTAG ICE MkII. Are there known drawbacks with
respect to the Atmel product? Kandas documentation is not really enough
as a base for a decision.

Thanks for any advice!


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[James-174]

On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 15:42 +0200, Juergen Harms wrote:
> Does anybody have experience with the JTAG ICE sold by Kanda for use in
> a typical AVR-GCC programming envirement (using it on LINUX, therefore
> probably only the serial interface to be considered)? - substantially
> cheaper than the Atmel JTAG ICE MkII. Are there known drawbacks with
> respect to the Atmel product? Kandas documentation is not really enough
> as a base for a decision.
>
> Thanks for any advice!

I'd definitely stay away from the Kanda USB version. It doesn't even
register as a USB serial device on linux as far as I could workout. It
does work through VMWare if worst comes to worst.

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Probably want to check http://avarice.sourceforge.net/
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[Rick Altherr-2]

That's an FTDI chip.  You'll need the FTDI drivers for it to work  
under linux.
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On Jun 28, 2008, at 4:49 PM, James wrote:

> On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 15:42 +0200, Juergen Harms wrote:
>> Does anybody have experience with the JTAG ICE sold by Kanda for  
>> use in
>> a typical AVR-GCC programming envirement (using it on LINUX,  
>> therefore
>> probably only the serial interface to be considered)? - substantially
>> cheaper than the Atmel JTAG ICE MkII. Are there known drawbacks with
>> respect to the Atmel product? Kandas documentation is not really  
>> enough
>> as a base for a decision.
>>
>> Thanks for any advice!
>
> I'd definitely stay away from the Kanda USB version. It doesn't even
> register as a USB serial device on linux as far as I could workout. It
> does work through VMWare if worst comes to worst.
>
> ID 0403:d738 Future Technology Devices International, Ltd
>
> Probably want to check http://avarice.sourceforge.net/
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> James
>
>
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[Daniel O'Connor-2]

On Sat, 28 Jun 2008, Juergen Harms wrote:
> Does anybody have experience with the JTAG ICE sold by Kanda for use
> in a typical AVR-GCC programming envirement (using it on LINUX,
> therefore probably only the serial interface to be considered)? -
> substantially cheaper than the Atmel JTAG ICE MkII. Are there known
> drawbacks with respect to the Atmel product? Kandas documentation is
> not really enough as a base for a decision.

I would suggest you get an AVR Dragon if it will be suitable (ie you are
talking to devices <= 32kB in size).

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[James-174]

On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 17:19 -0700, Rick Altherr wrote:
> That's an FTDI chip.  You'll need the FTDI drivers for it to work  
> under linux.
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Sweet thanks.
Doesn't seem to register by default. This gets me some USB serial
devices:
modprobe ftdi_sio vendor=0x0403 product=0xd738

Have to try this thing out again.
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[Juergen Harms]

Thanks for all that help. I am using an AT90CAN128 (ram-size imposed,
currently with less than 32Kbytes flash used) - dragon would be problematic.

There exists an ftdi_sio driver on my Mandriva kernel (I guess it comes
with the vanilla kernel). But, unless somebody has positive experience
running the Kanda ICE on Linux, I probably have the choice of spending
some 200 additional Euros or to invest a couple of hours with an
uncertain result. I will do some more googling to check whether there
are any positive reports.


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[James-174]

On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 14:55 +1200, James wrote:
> Sweet thanks.
> Doesn't seem to register by default. This gets me some USB serial
> devices:
> modprobe ftdi_sio vendor=0x0403 product=0xd738
>
> Have to try this thing out again.
> ---
> James

OK I got my Kanda USB JTAG ISP working in linux. So using:
avarice -j /dev/ttyUSB0 --erase --program --verify --file test.bin :4242
Then:
avr-gdb
(gdb) target remote localhost:4242
(gdb) cont

Success!
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