A Common Cause of Failure to Connect Atmel Studio 6 to Hardware

Posted by Andreas Christodoulou

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Atmel® Studio 6 is the integrated development environment (IDE) for developing and debugging Atmel ARM® Cortex™-M and Atmel AVR® microcontroller (MCU) based applications. 

The Atmel Studio 6 IDE gives you a seamless and easy-to-use environment to write, build and debug your applications written in C/C++ or assembly code. 

Today we are going to look at some of the causes of common communication failure between Atmel Studio 6 and some of the Atmel development tools. 

Demonstrated on a JTAGICE 3 and the XMEGA-A3BU.

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Microchip’s new IDE MPLAB® X Call Graph

Posted by Andreas Christodoulou

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When working with a complex project, especially one that includes code written by others, it can be difficult to navigate through all the function calls. 

The call graph provides a graphical representation of your applications function call relationships with powerful navigation features to help traverse the sometimes tangled paths an application can take. 

More on :

http://www.microchip.com/pagehandler/en-us/family/mplabx

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Debugging connected Windows 8 applications

Posted by Andreas Christodoulou

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In Windows 8, the code allows you to connect your applications to the internet. There are times though when yor network code may not be working.

When your network code doesn’t work, you need to know the tools that Windows provides so you can fix your application faster. 

Visit the link below to see the specific video that will teach you about the new tools and capabilities in Windows 8 that lead to effective network communication (This video is presented by Raghu Gatta and originally posted on http://www.windows8update.com). 

http://www.windows8update.com/2011/11/29/windows-video-debugging-connected-windows-8-applications

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