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avr

The avr utilities have been updated, but note that this does not bring them in line with the X86 targets. The updated utilities are:

• avr-gcc from 4.50 to 4.51 (http://gcc.gnu.org/)
• avr-c++ from 4.50 to 4.51 (http://gcc.gnu.org/)
• avr-binutils from 2.20 to 2.21 (http://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/)

dfu-programmer

A Device Firmware Update based USB programmer for Atmel chips.

• New devices:
  • at32uc3c*
  • atmega32u2
  • at32uc3b1512
  • at32uc3b0512
  • atmega8u2
• A number of the AVR32 fuses can now be set by command-line options

Project site: (http://dfu-programmer.sourceforge.net/)

piklab

Fedora 15 includes piklab 0.15.10. In addition to a number of bugfixes, the following new features have been added:

• tiny bootloader support for 16F886/887
• ICD2 support for:
  • 12F609/615 16F610
  • 16F526 16F1826/1827/1933/1934/1936/1937/1939/1947
  • 16F722/723/724/726/727
  • 16F88X
  • 18F23K20/24K20/25K20/26K20/43K20/44K20/45K20/46K20
  • 18F2458/2553/4458/4553

For more details refer to the project site at http://piklab.sourceforge.net