3.1 Documentation Resources

The major sources of documentation are Getting Started projects, the Atmel START User Manual, as well as reference manuals for ASF4 and Foundation Services framework content.

Getting Started projects

How to use the different pieces of the system to get them to work together, for example, how to use Atmel START efficiently with an IDE, such as Atmel Studio 7, in order to build your embedded application.

Getting Started projects have training materials like video series and/or hands-on training manuals, linked to the project user guides. The example project itself often represents the goal or end-point of the related hands-on or video training material. Training materials will give you a workflow overview of how the Atmel START and your IDE work together.

  • Open Browse Examples, click the Category drop-down menu, and select the Getting Started category
  • Links to training materials are found in the example project user-guides, which can be accessed without opening the project
  • See the Atmel START User Manual

START User Manual

  • What is Atmel START?
  • Quick Start and Workflow Overview
    • Using Getting Started projects, finding/reconfiguring relevant example projects
    • Create New Project, by selecting an MCU based on both software and hardware project requirements
  • How to use the various Atmel START configuration screens:
    • Dashboard
    • PINMUX
    • Event System Configurator
    • QTouch® Configurator
  • How to export projects to various IDEs as:
    • Atmel Studio 7
    • IAR Embedded Workbench
    • Keil µVision
    • Makefile
  • Content overview, software that Atmel START can configure and generate:
    • ASF4
    • Foundation Services

ASF4 API Reference Manual

  • ASF4 Software Architecture
  • Driver implementation and Design conventions
  • API reference

AVR® Code API Reference Manual

  • Foundation Services Software Architecture
  • Driver implementation and Design conventions
  • API reference