Atmel ICE Firmware Version? How to find out?

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Posted by rfdes: Fri. Jun 16, 2017 - 01:44 PM
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I own an Atmel ICE (white) for a couple of years now and use AS7. I was wondering how to find out the ICE firmware that exists on my unit and what the latest available version exists.

My understanding is that the AS7 tool would inform me when a new release is out but I've never gotten a new firmware release notice.  Is this device considered stable and no updates have occurred for some time?  I'm not having any problems with my unit, it works great, just wondering.

Thanks

Jim

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Posted by clawson: Fri. Jun 16, 2017 - 02:05 PM
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Atmel generally put a version of f/w into the ICE to match the IDE. So unless you upgrade the IDE then you are unlikely to see the IDE suggesting a need to change.

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Posted by steve17: Fri. Jun 16, 2017 - 03:08 PM
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Atmel Studio.  Tools > Device Programming

 

 

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Posted by rfdes: Fri. Jun 16, 2017 - 07:40 PM (Reply to #3)
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Ok... There it is.  Right there in front of me.  If it had been a snake, it would have bit me!

Thanks

Jim

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Posted by thexeno: Thu. Oct 5, 2017 - 05:20 PM
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Hi,

I was looking for a changelog of the firmware update on the ICE. Do you know where I can find it?

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Posted by gchapman: Thu. Oct 5, 2017 - 08:09 PM (Reply to #5)
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Atmel-ICE

Firmware Release History

http://www.atmel.com/webdoc/GUID-DDB0017E-84E3-4E77-AAE9-7AC4290E5E8B/index.html?GUID-8CE5FEF9-0C68-4194-8E9C-383F8FDB012D

 

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Posted by daveped: Tue. Jun 26, 2018 - 01:06 PM
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A few items to clarify -

 

1. The firmware version numbers shown by Atmel Studio 7 are in hexadecimal. The documents on Atmel Studio list the firmware history in decimal! So the "1.27" reported to me is 1.39 in documents. <rant> Oh Atmel, is it really so hard to take on a customer view when you write these documents? </rant>

 

2. The link from qchapman now goes to a generic Microchip page. No firmware versions there anymore.

 

3. The Atmel Studio manual has a firmware table. Missing many versions, latest entry is years out of date. Versions are in decimal.

 

<rant>

It is never clear to me when I really have to update firmware. For updates with some New Chip that I don't use - no. But does the protocol change? Bug fixes? Hard to tell without a version history. And it would be nice if the firmware table said more than "bug fixes"...

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Posted by awneil: Tue. Jun 26, 2018 - 01:16 PM (Reply to #7)
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Perhaps you should raise these points on support tickets to Microchip ... ?

 

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Posted by gchapman: Tue. Jun 26, 2018 - 03:58 PM (Reply to #7)
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daveped wrote:
2. The link from qchapman now goes to a generic Microchip page. No firmware versions there anymore.

Atmel-ICE

Firmware Release History
http://www.microchip.com/webdoc/GUID-DDB0017E-84E3-4E77-AAE9-7AC4290E5E8B/index.html?GUID-8CE5FEF9-0C68-4194-8E9C-383F8FDB012D

 

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