Having looked at it, this is the only real change and code and examples written for Atmel Studio will work fine in Microchip Studio. Solutions and Projects are identical.

The only difference is new download links and having to search for Microchip Studio not Atmel Studio.

Apart from some new device support, I can’t see the point of Atmel Studio 7 or solutions etc. Bloatware is all it is.

Thank goodness for Mac reflect. It images my drive (and it includes Ubuntu) and I now do this before I install any new software. That way if it crashes I can recover in 10 minutes. It will work on a WD Passport external drive.

Bottom line is I have reverted to Win7 and AVRStudio 4 for the new laptop.

I too had problems with 19 so I stuck with 18.

As time goes on, Ubuntu is looking better and better.

Wallace

The post was about AVRStudio. It does have weaknesses as you describe but it is free. WinAVR C compiler is also not as good as IAR but you get what you pay for. You could use the AVR plugin for Eclipse if you prefer.

1. No auto indent/auto unindent after ‘{‘, ‘}’, ‘for, while etc.
2. No ‘Match Braces’ what is absolutely necessary
3. Highlighting looks ugly (compare to ConTEXT for the example)
4. No line numbering
5. Not configurable (just a few options)

I do have both AVRStudio 4.19 and AtmelStudio6 on my PC and they don’t interfere with each other, so I can use both. Version 6 takes ages to load so I still use version 4 most of the time. The ATtiny441 isn’t even supported in the last release of 6.1 and you need to download a package to add it to Studio 6, ATtiny441-841 Package for Studio 6.1.

As they haven’t even managed to add these devices to Studio 6 properly, I can’t see them adding it to AVRStudio 4 any time soon.

Not really. You could use a commandline version of avrasm assembler or GCC compiler with an external editor but you lose all the benefits of an integrated development environment just to get a slightly better editor. After all, AVRStudio was developed to integrate all the tools in one platform so you would be going backwards. I suppose you could write the code in another editor and paste it in but it seems a lot of effort for not much gain.

I find the editor in AVRStudio is ok, with syntax highlighting and reasonable tabbing – what do you find so bad about it?

ATmega8535 is much older and hasn’t got on-chip debug so it can’t be emulated with ICE tools like AVR Dragon. ATmega8535 projects can be easily modified to work with ATmega16 as fuses are very similar. C projects might give grief with ISR names but they are easy to change and as you say ISR table in assembler needs slight modification. ATmega16 are also cheaper.