No success making blink on ATtiny84

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vaselinessa
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Posted by vaselinessa: Sat. Aug 17, 2013 - 11:41 PM
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I have come from from successes with ATtiny85 and ATmega328 to failture with ATtiny84. I can't even get a single pin to light an LED. I have a VERY simple setup. Can anyone spot a trouble area?

My fuses read as follows (l,h,e): 0x62, 0xdf, 0xff

My code is 10 lines:

#include 

int main()
{
  DDRA |= 255; // set all port A pins for output
  PORTA |= 255; // set all bits on port A
  DDRB |= (1<<PB2);
  PORTB |= (1<<PB2);
  while (1) {}
}

The wiring is simple:

My USBtiny programmer is connected to the chip's 5V, GND, RESET, SCK, MOSI, & MISO pins (and avrdude raised no complaints). I have an LED connected to GND through a resistor; on its (+) lead, I have a jumper wire, which I have connected with each pin on the ATtiny84, but only the 5V pin will make the LED glow.

I have not burned a bootloader onto the chip (but I believe that it came from Sparkfun, so it should have a bootloader on it already).

Thank you for any support you may render.

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AVR Microcontrollers, megaAVR and tinyAVR, ATmega32, ATmega328, ATtiny84, ATtiny85
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Posted by Kartman: Sun. Aug 18, 2013 - 12:08 AM
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Seems like a rather slippery problem.
Have you checked the compiler settings? Run the code in the simulator?

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Posted by vaselinessa: Sun. Aug 18, 2013 - 12:11 AM
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I'm afraid I have done neither of those, but if you can point me to instructions, I will do both.

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Posted by Kartman: Sun. Aug 18, 2013 - 12:35 AM
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Instructions for what! You assume i know what tools you are using. Nevertheless, most tools have help files.

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Posted by clawson: Sun. Aug 18, 2013 - 01:16 PM
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so it should have a bootloader on it already
As soon as you used ISP you will have wiped any bootloader.

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Posted by vaselinessa: Sun. Aug 18, 2013 - 02:33 PM
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Sorry. Well, I'm using avr-gcc, and I have no idea how to make use of a simulator even after googling "avr-gcc simulator attiny84." Is avrstudio the only application out there with a simulator?

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As soon as you used ISP you will have wiped any bootloader.

I guess that I have always been without a boot loader on all my ICs, then. Does that present a problem?

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Posted by JohanEkdahl: Sun. Aug 18, 2013 - 03:23 PM
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I guess that I have always been without a boot loader on all my ICs, then. Does that present a problem?

No, since you have another programmer.

A bootloader is nothing but a programmer implemented in the AVR that is to be programmed.

You have a programmer external to the AVR, so you do not need a bootloader.

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Posted by indianajones11: Sun. Aug 18, 2013 - 09:26 PM
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OP wrote:
I have no idea how to make use of a simulator

Kartman wrote:
...Nevertheless, most tools have help files.
Why didn't you follow Kartman's suggestion then :?: :wink: Look in AVR tools help files...

So the LED's on PB2? Are you sure you put it on the correct pin and it's not reverse-bias connected?

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Posted by shimniok: Sun. Aug 18, 2013 - 10:12 PM
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I will try to help if I can.

Simulator -- If you were using AVR Studio you'd have access to a simulator that you could check your code, check resisters as you step through code, etc. Quite handy! On gcc, never mind that advice for now.

Did this exact code work properly on 328P and Tiny85? Or is the code a little different?

Are you sure you have your chip hooked up correctly?

You can verify your fuse settings here: http://www.engbedded.com/fusecalc/

I can't see why the code wouldn't work, though. It probably isn't the code itself. Is the correct device set upon compile? (Screenshot of your compile output would tell us)

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Posted by vaselinessa: Fri. Sep 27, 2013 - 06:43 PM
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Thanks for the advice. I used AVR Studio's simulator to confirm that it was not a software problem.

Then I went over it with a multimeter.

In the end (I'm so embarrassed), it turns out that I was tying the RESET pin DOWN instead of UP; I needed to move my 10Kohm resistor from Ground to +Vcc.

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Posted by bobgardner: Fri. Sep 27, 2013 - 06:48 PM
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Welcome to the club. Maybe the lesson learned is keep a scrapbook of all the problems that were hard to debug but would up having a simple fix. (Computer screen is blank? Cord plugged into wall? Lamp works in that wall socket? etc)

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Posted by Irwinjs22: Sat. Sep 28, 2013 - 12:42 AM
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Question, his code is initializing PortA but his LED's are being toggled on PortB... am I seeing this correctly?

include  

int main() 
{ 
  DDRA |= 255; // set all port A pins for output 
  PORTA |= 255; // set all bits on port A 
  DDRB |= (1<<PB2); 
  PORTB |= (1<<PB2); 
  while (1) {} 
}

Shouldn't his code be"

include  

int main() 
{ 
  DDRB |= 255; // set all port B pins for output 
  PORTB |= 255; // set all bits on port B 
  DDRB |= (1<<PB2); 
  PORTB |= (1<<PB2); 
  while (1) {} 
}
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Posted by HellsGuardian: Sat. Sep 28, 2013 - 07:55 AM
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Irwinjs22 wrote:
Question, his code is initializing PortA but his LED's are being toggled on PortB... am I seeing this correctly?

include  

int main() 
{ 
  DDRA |= 255; // set all port A pins for output 
  PORTA |= 255; // set all bits on port A 
  DDRB |= (1<<PB2); 
  PORTB |= (1<<PB2); 
  while (1) {} 
}

Shouldn't his code be"

include  

int main() 
{ 
  DDRB |= 255; // set all port B pins for output 
  PORTB |= 255; // set all bits on port B 
  DDRB |= (1<<PB2); 
  PORTB |= (1<<PB2); 
  while (1) {} 
}

He already is setting PB2 as output, its fine

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