2.2 Design Documentation and Relevant Links

The following list contains links to the most relevant documents and software for the ATtiny104 Xplained Nano.

  • 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 features 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.
  • MPLAB® Code Configurator - MPLAB® Code Configurator (MCC) is a free software plug-in that provides a graphical interface to configure peripherals and functions specific to your application.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Microchip Sample Store - Microchip sample store where you can order samples of devices.
  • Data Visualizer - Data Visualizer is a program used for processing and visualizing data. The Data Visualizer can receive data from various sources such as the EDBG Data Gateway Interface found on Curiosity Nano and Xplained Pro boards and COM Ports.
  • Design Documentation - Package containing CAD source, schematics, BOM, assembly drawings, 3D plots, layer plots, etc.
  • Hardware Users Guide in PDF format - PDF version of this User Guide.