Atmel studio 6 Anyone ?

[William Gaatjes]

Anyone has experience with Atmel studio 6 ?

I am thinking of purchasing this to get up to speed and have an understanding of Atmel studio 6 :

http://nl.farnell.com/atmel/atsam4s-xpld/eval-sam4s16-xplained-kit/dp/2215343

http://www.newark.com/atmel/atsam4s-xpld/eval-board-sam4s16-xplained-arm/dp/06W2052

Atmel studio 6 is free and uses the GNU C compiler and uses the microsoft visual studio shell.

 

[Leros]

I used to use Atmel Studio 4. It was one of the best embedded IDEs I've used.

I'm now fully switched to Linux so I'm using a more Linux-y solution, but it's nowhere near as powerful as Atmel Studio.

 

[William Gaatjes]

I have the xplained board but i have a big problem.

The AT91SAM7x , SAM3x and SAM4x ARM series have a bootloader on board.
By erasing the MCU, the bootlader is activated and through an USB connection the MCU present itself. However, because of a problem in the driver database from microsoft, the MCU is recognized as a gps camera and the wrong driver is loaded. Making the MCU/bootloader unusable and not programmable. 🙁

I had this issue already with my SAM7x , but now i have the same issue with the SAM4x as well. 🙁

Anybody have a solution, my windows 7 64 bit refuses to load the proper driver from atmel.
I have a workaround through VMware but that is not easy in use.

 

[William Gaatjes]

Yahoo, i got the driver loaded. Now to see if i can get any demo code running.
It is accessible through SAMBA & CDCbootloader and the JTAG connection is also functioning through atmelstudio 6. Too bad that the jtag interface only want's elf & hex and not bin files. SAMBA works with bin files.😕