Alternate to Atmel AVR Studio

[garvind25]

Hi,

I needed an assembly language IDE tool for Atmega8 uC to simulate assembly language code and see status of flags. I downloaded AVR Studio 7. But it is very bulky; even in idle state it is consuming 600-700 MB of RAM. Can anyone suggest an alternate lite tool. I tried Proteus but it does not seem to have a code simulator.

Thanks,
Arvind Gupta

 

[pic.programmer]

Proteus is a simulator. You can load .cof file to it and debug the application. The Watch window will show the values of registers added. Oshonsoft Simulators are another tool.

 

[betwixt]

I have only used the PIC version but I believe the two are very similar:

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The PIC version is excellent and works in Linux under Wine as well. It has one of the best simulation tools I've ever seen.

Brian.

 

[garvind25]

Well ... just to be clear , I was looking for Proteus tutorial as to how to simulate an assembly code for AVR. Anyways thanks @ betwixt

 

[ctownsend]

download avrstudio4. It is not bulky and works very well. I use it all the time.

 

[FlapJack]

download avrstudio4. It is not bulky and works very well. I use it all the time.

I know that avr studio 4 is not being updated. What do you do about the new cpu's.

 

[ctownsend]

Well you referenced atmega8. AVRStudio4 supports atmega8 and many more devices. I am not currently using any device that AVRStudio does not support.

If I do in the future there are ways around that.