User manual

Atmel-ICE [USER GUIDE]
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1. Introduction
1.1 Introduction to the Atmel-ICE
Atmel-ICE is a powerful development tool for debugging and programming ARM Cortex-M based Atmel SAM
and Atmel AVR microcontrollers with On-Chip Debug capability.
It supports:
● Programming and on-chip debugging of all Atmel AVR UC3 microcontrollers on both JTAG and aWire
interfaces
● Programming and on-chip debugging of all AVR XMEGA family devices on both JTAG and PDI 2-wire
interfaces
● Programming (JTAG and SPI) and debugging of all AVR 8-bit microcontrollers with OCD support on both
JTAG or debugWIRE interfaces
● Programming and debugging of all Atmel SAM ARM Cortex-M based microcontrollers on both SWD and
JTAG interfaces
● Programming (TPI) of all Atmel tinyAVR 8-bit microcontrollers with support for this interface
1.2 Atmel-ICE Features
● Fully compatible with Atmel Studio
● Supports programming and debugging of all Atmel AVR UC3 32-bit microcontrollers
● Supports programming and debugging of all 8-bit AVR XMEGA devices
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Supports programming and debugging of all 8-bit Atmel megaAVR
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and tinyAVR devices with OCD
● Supports programming and debugging of all SAM ARM Cortex-M based microcontrollers
● Target operating voltage range of 1.62V to 5.5V
● Draws less than 3mA from target VTref when using debugWIRE interface and less than 1mA for all other
interfaces
● Supports JTAG clock frequencies from 32kHz to 7.5MHz
● Supports PDI clock frequencies from 32kHz to 7.5MHz
● Supports debugWIRE baud rates from 4kbit/s to 0.5Mbit/s
● Supports aWire baud rates from 7.5kbit/s to 7Mbit/s
● Supports SPI clock frequencies from 8kHz to 5MHz
● Supports SWD clock frequencies from 32kHz to 2MHz
● USB 2.0 high-speed host interface
● ITM serial trace capture at up to 3MB/s
● Supports 10-pin 50-mil JTAG connector with both AVR and Cortex pinouts. The standard probe cable
supports AVR 6-pin ISP/PDI/TPI 100-mil headers as well as 10-pin 50-mil. An adapter is available to
support 6-pin 50-mil, 10-pin 100-mil and 20-pin 100-mil headers. Several kit options are available with
different cabling and adapters.
1.3 System Requirements
The Atmel-ICE unit requires that a front-end debugging environment Atmel Studio version 6.2 or later is
installed on your computer.