{"id":1294,"date":"2004-02-06T23:18:36","date_gmt":"2004-02-07T05:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/areciv.com\/blog\/?p=1294"},"modified":"2021-09-22T22:31:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-23T03:31:28","slug":"avr-plugins-for-eclipse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/areciv.com\/blog\/2004\/02\/avr-plugins-for-eclipse\/","title":{"rendered":"AVR Plugins for Eclipse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This set of plugins for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eclipse.org\">Eclipse IDE<\/a> was originally designed to provide two key functionalities when developing C\/C++ programs for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atmel.com\/products\/microcontrollers\/avr\/default.aspx\">Atmel AVR<\/a> family of microcontrollers (way before <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arduino.cc\">Arduino<\/a> made them cool).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first plugin added an AVR Cross-Target option to the project creation wizard which allowed for starting a new project with no specific configuration necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second plugin added a menu item and toolbar button which could be used to download the hex files for the current project to the target device.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After rewriting and improving the plugins several times, using them for all of my personal work, as well as with a school group, I made them available as open source through <a href=\"http:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/avr-eclipse\">a SourceForge project<\/a>. I maintained them for a little while, but eventually several other individuals took over that project. They are still available and useable! However, vast improvements to Atmel Studio (now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microchip.com\/en-us\/development-tools-tools-and-software\/microchip-studio-for-avr-and-sam-devices\">Microchip Studio<\/a>) over the last decade have made them less relevant for most users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This set of plugins for the Eclipse IDE was originally designed to provide two key functionalities when developing C\/C++ programs for the Atmel AVR family of microcontrollers (way before Arduino made them cool).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/areciv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2004\/02\/avr-eclipse-icon.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/areciv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/areciv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/areciv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/areciv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/areciv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1294"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/areciv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4400,"href":"https:\/\/areciv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1294\/revisions\/4400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/areciv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/areciv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/areciv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/areciv.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}