I own an ice40, but need to emulate chips it does not support, so I would like to upgrade it if that is possible.
or is my only option to get trace the AVRone?
Can the AVRone actually do a trace for code on a mega168 or mega324?
it is not obvious to me from the literature.
thanks
can an ice40 be upgraded into an ice50?
You need to ask Atmel about upgrades..
Why is the trace such a necessity? What about regular breakpoints and assert.h? Which AVR toolchain supports feedbacked profiling?
I think both were discontinued IIRC.
Can the AVRone actually do a trace
It seems it can't.
Trace is a great tool but on a single-threaded, small processor such as AVR does it really count as essential?
Cliff
I can usually debug without emulator. But there are times that not much else will answer the questions.
I am currently debugging a 10kbit/sec protocol I wrote for inter processor communication. occasionally one message doesn't get through. Emulator helped solve it in about a day. I am pretty sure I would still be trying things if I didn't borrow an emulator.
I am doing assembly code, using studio4 - this supports trace (although it is cumbersome).
I have asked Atmel the upgrade question, but have not gotten a response yet.
I got a response from atmel rep - ice40 & 50 are discontinued.
no support available.
anyone out there know what the 'upgrade kit' was?
anyone have an ice50 for sale?