Could anyone suggest a programmer or development board suitable for programming AVR's that is compatible with a professional IDE? The requirements are:
The total cost ((board XOR programmer) AND IDE) must be under £50, I am willing to spend more if the suggestion is an outstanding product.
The IDE must be a C++ environment. No machine code and no Arduino.
Must be compatible with at least one AVR (mega or tiny) with code size of 8kb or above.
The AVR must be removable and usable independently, preferably not SMT, however if the chip is SMT I am sure that I can break it out for a DIP package.
Most importantly: the software must have extensive documentation.
I believe the above are the only requirements. A few months back at my local hackspace a man from GE suggested a TI MSP430 development board, the launchpad, I made the purchase however he has not been present at the space since, I am thus unable to use the board without extensive reading of various documents due to unrecognised pre-processor directives (#use fast/standard_io, or something along those lines). AVR's are what I have used so far in the form of Arduino and these are what I am comfortable with.
I look forward to the suggestions (if anyone can find something that matches these requirements!),
The total cost ((board XOR programmer) AND IDE) must be under £50, I am willing to spend more if the suggestion is an outstanding product.
The IDE must be a C++ environment. No machine code and no Arduino.
Must be compatible with at least one AVR (mega or tiny) with code size of 8kb or above.
The AVR must be removable and usable independently, preferably not SMT, however if the chip is SMT I am sure that I can break it out for a DIP package.
Most importantly: the software must have extensive documentation.
I believe the above are the only requirements. A few months back at my local hackspace a man from GE suggested a TI MSP430 development board, the launchpad, I made the purchase however he has not been present at the space since, I am thus unable to use the board without extensive reading of various documents due to unrecognised pre-processor directives (#use fast/standard_io, or something along those lines). AVR's are what I have used so far in the form of Arduino and these are what I am comfortable with.
I look forward to the suggestions (if anyone can find something that matches these requirements!),
