USB90μC Minimal Development Board V1.0a
Description
This is a cleaned up version of a home-designed-and-built development board used to learn how to interface to and write programs for the AT90USB162 microcontroller. A pic of the first home-built version can be seen at flickr.com/photos/everydayinventors/5368101007/ .
With the exception of the AVR mcu, all parts are through-hole for ease of assembly.
If you don't wish to manufacture a bare PCB yourself, you can get one from BatchPCB: batchpcb.com/index.php/Products/61022
Instructions
Programs can be written in C using GCC for AVR target ( nongnu.org/avr-libc/ ).
A very good AVR USB library with many examples is Dean Camera's Lightweight USB Framework for AVRs ( fourwalledcubicle.com/LUFA.php ).
Ubuntu GNU/Linux 10.04 LTS users can install both dfu-programmer and gcc-avr using the Ubuntu Software Center or Synaptic Package Manager.
A simple example test program written in C is included.
Alternate repository for schematics and source code at GitHub:
github.com/EverydayInventors/USB90uC
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Thanks for this board!
It seems that it can be done at home, with only one layer and few jumper wires, no?
The total cost of the components is around 5
⬠/ 7$... KUDOS to you!
;)
Thanks. This is a double-sided design, but should be home buildable using a single side etch and point-to-point wiring on the opposite side. If I were to do that, I'd etch the top and mount the through-hole components on the back side except for the USB jack. There is only one via on the board, which is the MCU pin 3 tied to ground.
On the other hand, home etching a double-sided board isn't that much more difficult than a single-sided one. I originally home etched a double-sided design which was only slightly different than this one (see the flickr link above in the second paragraph of the description of this thing.) The th
inner the substrate material thickness of the double-sided copper clad board, the easier it is to align the artwork sides. Mine was 0.25mm. (On a side note, thin copper clad is good for home work 'cause its easy to drill and cut, you can cut it with regular scissors, and has good thermal conductio
n through the board which is nice if you're using the laser printer toner transfer method.) Just make sure when you make your artwork for transfer you include registration marks on the far outside of the design. A light table is nice, but not needed to align the artwork. I held my artwork up to a
bright incandescent bulb to help align it. If you're using a photo-resist method, it should be even easier to do.
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Ok, spent a few hours with the Arduino environment code and figuring out how to make a new hardware platform profile. It's a bit of a hack, and lots of functionality is missing, but I was just now able to get my first Arduino sketch, a LED blinker, to compile for the USB90uC platform. So, yes, it will be possible to use the Arduino environment to write programs for this board.
I did have to upload the program by hand using dfu-programmer at the command-line as I haven't yet seen how to get the Arduino environment to use something other than avrdude for uploading.
I'll play around with it some more over the next couple days an see what can be done.