AVR Freaks

Thanks for the reply. That was helpful.

It boggles the mind the people at Microchip are so stupid as to actually delete documentation for their products. I can see a "milking" strategy whereby you stop investing, but to actually roll things back is a new low.

The AS7 search for simulator brings me to this  https://onlinedocs.microchip.com/pr/GUID-ECD8A826-B1DA-44FC-BE0B-5A53418A47BD-en-US-4.1.1/index.html?GUID-00257F02-E33C-40C3-B324-83DBCC05EC30 which has no mention of stim or any permutation of stimulus.

AS7 search for stim or stimuli brings me to this  https://onlinedocs.microchip.com/pr/GUID-ECD8A826-B1DA-44FC-BE0B-5A53418A47BD-en-US-4.1.1/index.html?GUID-00257F02-E33C-40C3-B324-83DBCC05EC30  which is about 6.1 and contains the useless information: 

Stimulus for simulator. Create a stimuli file to write register values while executing simulation.

I understand they are rebranding. That makes sense. What is utterly stupid is to remove content before putting it someplace else, and that give them the benefit of the doubt they are going to replace it. The high school student level of competence required to move a website at a minimum means you redirect old links to the new ones. As it is, they have a feature in Studio 7 (stimulus files) they don't have a shred of documentation for, and that's not older files.

And this is not the only case where I've had to go to 3rd parties to get the Atmega related information I want, this is just the only one where it hasn't worked. Obviously, stimuli files were an unsupported afterthought they didn't properly document in the first place.

Fortunately, I can continue without it. 

Thanks for the help.

Thank you so much for that - I think it is exactly what I was looking for.

I was completely unaware Studio 7 had that help content manager. I was always hitting F1 and ending up at their website.

Thanks  again.