AVR Studio - 7 Tutorial - Installation Guide

Atmel Studio 7 is the integrated development platform (IDP) for developing and debugging Atmel® SMART ARM®-based and Atmel AVR® microcontroller (MCU) applications. Studio 7 supports all AVR and Atmel SMART MCUs. The Atmel Studio 7 IDP gives you a seamless and easy-to-use environment to write, build and debug your applications written in C/C++ or assembly code. It also connects seamlessly to Atmel debuggers and development kits.

Additionally, Atmel Studio includes Atmel Gallery, an online apps store that allows you to extend your development environment with plug-ins developed by Atmel as well as by third-party tool and embedded software vendors. Atmel Studio 7 can also able seamlessly import your Arduino sketches as C++ projects, providing a simple transition path from Makerspace to Marketplace.

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Prior to installation of AVR Studio you have to install the compiler WinAVR. This will allow AVR Studio to detect the compiler.

Step 1: Download the setup file from Atmel site.There are two option for download
                 A. Atmel Studio 7.0 (build 790) web installer
                 B. Atmel Studio 7.0 (build 790) offline installer
User should select as per their convinience.

Step 2: After selection you will be prompted to fill a form.Complete the form and download link will appear.Click download then wait for download to complete.

Step 3: Double click the Installer/Setup file and installation will start automatically. 

If Visual Basic 2015 is not installed on your system,Setup will automatically install Isolated version during installation process.

Step 4: After Installation completes, Launch AVR Studio 7 Icon in your start menu or you can find it on your desktop.Double click it to start the application.You will be greeted with the welcome screen and after that main menu will open.From hereon programming will start.

Hope this has helped our readers.Will come back with Programming part in next post.Till then Happy Programming.