Chiptest - The quick and dirty AVR tester.
So, you made a new project board using an AVR microcontroller, and you want to make sure it works before starting to develop your firmware. Debugging both software and hardware at the same time is a pain.
Enters chiptest. This is a simple test program that makes sure the most basic stuff is working.
Right now chiptest supports the following devices:
It tests the following features:
How to use it
- Adjust the pinout at the top of main.c and the CPU clock in the makefile to your needs
- Plug your usbasp and board
- make flash
How to tell if it works
If everything goes well:
- The LED will blink at FCPU/(8^3). This should be visible for all reasonable clock speeds:
- 20 MHz - 0.8s
- 12 MHz - 1.4s
- 1 MHz - 16.8s
- The character 'H' is sent to the serial port at the same speed. Baudrate is 9600 baud to be safe (it's more likely that a low baudrate can be generated in a reasonably accurate way with any clock speed as a base).