Re: [avr-chat] Dragon: mega slow at dumping Flash, normal ?

[Vincent Trouilliez]

On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:40:37 -0500
David Kelly <address@hidden> wrote:

> At the moment none of my AVR gear is set up.

:-(
Someone else on this list must have one working I hope ! Can't believe
nobody replied... am I the only one earth using ISP with a Dragon ?
Maybe...
Sure, I intend to use JTAG in my next project, but the PCB for my
current project is already routed and built, cost me an arm and a leg
(60 Euros for a single sided Euro card, without even solder mask or
silk screen !). I guess I can always solder some wires to reroute my ISP
connector to the JTAG pins (which I purposefully, wisely, refrained
from using in this project... in case I wanted to later play with
JTAG)... might do that...

> Have spent the past several months in address@hidden& Visual Studio 2008 
> Express.

I feel your pain ;-)
During my industrial placement, I spent 13 months programming
micro-controllers all day long, but was enjoyable and time traveled
faster than light. However in the middle of the placement, I spent 3
weeks on MS Visual Basic to write a little application to retrieve data
from a data logger... these 3 weeks felt more painful than
the 12+ months spent working on MCU's... 3 weeks of hell I tell you...
never again I hope ! Had to fight the thing all day long and with no
on-line community support back then, was not easy, I was on my own
stuffed in problems...

>  Actually VS isn't all that bad but for the Windows part. Have remained sane 
> by using the  
> C++ compiler in C mode, with a CLI on my application.   :-)

Yeah, when it's all dark and gloomy, even a slight ray of light goes a
long way in maintaining one's faith in life.... so to speak ?! ;-)


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Vince