Program ATtiny817 via UPDI without Atmel Studio?

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Posted by digitalDan: Wed. Mar 27, 2019 - 01:45 PM
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I'd like to have a minimal setup (batch file, atprogram.exe, etc.) that will allow programming an ATtiny817 with Atmel-ICE over UPDI without needing Atmel Studio to be installed.  Right now, I'm using the "Production ELF file" facility within AS to program my boards:

 

 

Anyone know how to accomplish this or knows where I can find the information I need?

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Posted by clawson: Wed. Mar 27, 2019 - 01:47 PM
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The program is in your installation called atprogram.exe (it's what that GUI above feeds into anyway).

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Posted by digitalDan: Wed. Mar 27, 2019 - 02:02 PM
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Yes, I've found atprogram.exe in my AS installation but its help output when run naked on the command line is quite daunting!  Any idea on how to capture what AS is feeding to it in my situation above?  AS doesn't seem to have much in the way of console output for this operation.

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Posted by meolsen: Wed. Mar 27, 2019 - 02:23 PM
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atprogram --tool <tool> --interface <interface> --device <device> program -f <path to elf>

... should at least get you going... 

 

ut its help output when run naked on the command line is quite daunting!

It's a cli, so it can do a lot of things :) 

 

Any idea on how to capture what AS is feeding to it in my situation above?

Technically, it doesn't. There's a common component called 'atbackend' that both Atmel Studio and atprogram talks to to do any program/debug operation.

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Posted by mraardvark: Wed. Mar 27, 2019 - 02:30 PM
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atprogram.exe help program

 

this will give you some hints...

 

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Posted by digitalDan: Wed. Mar 27, 2019 - 06:07 PM
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Thanks all, for the hints.  The command line help built into atprogram.exe is pretty good so through that I learned how to replicate the VS functionality I cited above with:

atprogram -t atmelice -i updi -d attiny817 program -c -fl -fs --verify -f myApp.elf

Next, I copied atprogram.exe and myApp.elf to a USB stick so that I could take it to another computer without AS installed to test.  Here is the result of the test on the other computer:

E:\>atprogram -t atmelice -i updi -d attiny817 program -c -fl -fs --verify -f myApp.elf
[ERROR] Could not find atbackend.exe

I added atbackend.exe to my USB stick and tried again:

E:\>atprogram -t atmelice -i updi -d attiny817 program -c -fl -fs --verify -f myApp.elf
[ERROR] An unexpected error occurred when executing.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "atmel\atprogram.py", line 48, in run
  File "atmel\avr\cli\commandline.py", line 54, in execute_commands
  File "atmel\avr\cli\commandexecutor.py", line 52, in execute_commands
  File "atmel\avr\cli\resourcemanager.py", line 44, in prepare_resources
  File "atmel\avr\cli\resourcemanager.py", line 51, in _prepare_resource
  File "atmel\avr\cli\resourcecontainers.py", line 54, in allocate
  File "atmel\avr\cli\backend.py", line 134, in start
  File "subprocess.py", line 710, in __init__
  File "subprocess.py", line 958, in _execute_child
WindowsError: [Error 193] %1 is not a valid Win32 application

Obviously atprogram.exe not a completely stand alone program.

Is it even possible to do what I'm attempting?

 

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Posted by meolsen: Wed. Mar 27, 2019 - 07:02 PM
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No, it is not standalone at all...
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Tried to Google? I know we have a knowledge base article somewhere on microchip.com

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Posted by digitalDan: Wed. Mar 27, 2019 - 07:28 PM
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blush  I feel pretty silly now.  The knowledge base article is the first hit in google.  Thanks!

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