2.2 Design Documentation and Relevant Links

The following list contains links to the most relevant documents and software for the ATtiny817 Xplained Pro.

  • Xplained Products - Xplained Evaluation Kits are a series of easy-to-use evaluation kits for Microchip microcontrollers and other Microchip products.
    • Xplained Nano - used for low pin count devices and provides a minimalistic solution with access to all I/O pins of the target microcontroller.
    • Xplained Mini - used for medium pin count devices and adds Arduino Uno compatible header footprint and a prototyping area.
    • Xplained Pro - used for medium-to-high pin count devices that feature advanced debugging and standardized extensions for peripheral functions.
    Note: All the above kits have on-board programmers/debuggers, which creates a set of low-cost boards for evaluation and demonstration of features and capabilities of different Microchip products.
  • Atmel Studio - Free IDE for the development of C/C++ and assembler code for microcontrollers.
  • MPLAB® X IDE - MPLAB® X IDE is a software program that runs on a PC (Windows®, Mac OS®, Linux®) to develop applications for Microchip microcontrollers and digital signal controllers. It is called an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) because it provides a single integrated “environment” to develop code for embedded microcontrollers.
  • Atmel START - Atmel START is an online tool that helps the user to select and configure software components and tailor your embedded application in a usable and optimized manner.
  • EDBG User Guide - User guide containing more information about the on-board Embedded Debugger.
  • IAR Embedded Workbench® for AVR® - This is a commercial C/C++ compiler that is available for 8-bit AVR. There is a 30-day evaluation version as well as a 4 KB code-size-limited kick-start version available from their website.
  • QTouch® Tools - A collection of tools to design capacitive touch applications.
  • QTouch® Design Guide - PTC Robustness design guide document for touch sensor development.
  • Data Visualizer - Data Visualizer is a program used for processing and visualizing data. The Data Visualizer can receive data from various sources such as serial ports and on-board debugger’s Data Gateway Interface as found on Curiosity Nano and Xplained Pro boards.
  • ATtiny817 Xplained Pro website - Kit information, latest user guide and design documentation.
  • ATtiny817 Xplained Pro on Microchip Direct - Purchase this kit on Microchip Direct.