The AVR Dragon is a new low-cost development tool for AVR microcontrollers. By providing a complete on-chip debugging and programming tool for more than 30 different AVR flash memory microcontrollers, the AVR Dragon is the industry’s most comprehensive low-cost development tool.

The AVR Dragon supports all programming modes for all AVR microcontrollers and on-chip debugging for AVR microcontrollers with up to 32 KB of flash program memory. At just a fraction of the price usually required for such a full-featured tool, the AVR Dragon will fulfill all of your programming and debugging needs. The AVR Dragon can be used with an external target board as well as an onboard prototype area, allowing programming and debugging without any additional hardware.

The AVR Dragon is powered by a USB cable and can also source an external target with up to 300 mA for programming or debugging. If the target is already powered by an external power source, the AVR Dragon will adapt and level convert all signals between the target and the AVR Dragon.

The AVR Dragon uses the free Atmel AVR Studio IDE. AVR Studio—which includes a simulator, assembler, and C compiler—is the software front end for all Atmel AVR debugging and programming tools. A flexible and secure firmware upgrade feature allows AVR Studio to easily upgrade the AVR Dragon to support new devices for free.

The AVR Dragon is available today from all of Atmel’s franchised distributors at a suggested retail price of $49.

Atmel Corp.
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