wirelessloader

Bootloader for AVR devices, optimized to write via wireless usart access.

System requirements

PC

• Windows
• Mac OS X
• Linux

AVR Devices

• ATmega328P
• ATmega644P

You can port to other devices with bootloader support easily, especially to family devices with above.

Build bootloader

1. Change to avr directory
2. run make to build with default configuration
   • Currently only 38400 is supported by driver program
3. run ./build.sh to build for supported devices

Build driver program for bootloader

1. You have to install gcc to build this.
   • I recommend MinGW to build on Windows
   • Install command line tools to build on OS X
   • Install build-essential to build on Ubuntu
2. Change to pc directory
3. run make to build
4. run sudo make install to install your Unix like system
   • copy avrwrite.exe to your path on Windows

Write bootloader to AVR

1. Build bootloader for your device.
   • Don't forget change F_CPU and BAUDRATE, MCU, BOOTLOADER_ADDRESS
2. Write serialloader.hex with your favorite AVR writer.
3. Change fuse bits to load bootloader.
   • Read chapter "Boot Loader Support", section "ATmegaXX Boot Loader Parameters" carefully
   • 1 word = 2 bytes
   • The value of BOOTLOADER_ADDRESS should be double of "Boot Reset Address"
   • This bootloader require 2kB of flash memory
4. Reset your device
   • Bootloader automatically lock your device to protect bootloader program.

Write your AVR program with bootloader

1. You have to disconnect your serial terminal, which will be used to write.
2. run avrwrite -p [serialport] [yourprogram.hex]
   • Example for Windows avrwrite -p COM4 small.hex
   • Example for Linux avrwrite -p /dev/ttyUSB0 small.hex
   • Example for OS X avrwrite -p /dev/cu.usbserialXXX small.hex
3. Reconnect serial terminal
4. Send X to exit bootloader and run your program.
   • If you want to customize bootloader exit condition, you should edit main function at avr/bootloader.c
   • You can run your program after writing soon with -u option.

Auto disconnect, write program and re-connect with Tera Term

Tera Term is one of most useful terminal application to talk with serial devices. I wrote useful macro to work with wirelessloader. You can find them at pc/for teraterm.

TODO

• read fuse bits
• read eeprom
• change baudrate
• a lots!

License

wirelessloader - Bootloader for AVR devices, optimized to write via wireless usart access.

Copyright (C) 2012 Y.Okamura

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

avr-libc

Copyright (C) 2012 avr-libc project