Create, edit and manage software development projects in a specialized environment for Atmel AVR and ARM microcontrollers. There are multiple templates for all kinds of projects available for customization along with the option to create new ones and test them with an evaluation tool.
Atmel Studio was designed for hardware developers to help them create microcontroller applications, and also debug them. It comes as an integrated development platform that uses Microsoft Visual Studio shell. This program efficiently handles applications written in C/C++ and also in assembly language.
As a former Electronics and Telecommunications student, I know that Atmel microcontrollers are intensively used in this field. A lot of tools for programming these devices are available, but many of them don’t offer support for all of the microcontrollers from Atmel series. Atmel Studio is useful for both students and professionals, and offers a large variety of tools to help them develop and debug microcontroller applications.
This program is highly customizable. By accessing Options or Customize, you get access to a lot of setting options regarding the graphical user-interface or various program modules. Atmel Studio also includes many project templates which can be used for various purposes. They will save you precious time by automatically providing recurring portions of code that are present in multiple project files.
I didn't like that the installation process of Atmel Studio takes long. The program requires many additional components that are downloaded and installed separately.
In my opinion, Atmel Studio has all it takes to help its users create and debug microcontroller applications.
v7.0 [Sep 28, 2015]
Updated to Visual Studio Isolated Shell 2015.
Integration with Atmel Start.
- This tool will help you select and configure software components, drivers, middleware and
example projects to tailor your embedded application in a usable and optimized manner.
New device support system, CMSIS Pack compliant.
Data Visualizer, used for processing and visualizing data.
Updated help system, improved context sensitive help.
Atmel Software Framework version 3.27.3. ASF is an extensive software library of software stacks
and examples.
A major upgrade of the Visual Assist extension to Atmel Studio that assists with reading, writing,
refactoring, navigating code fast.
Import Arduino Sketch projects into Atmel Studio.
Support for Flip-compatible bootloaders in atprogram and programming dialogue. The connected
device appears as a tool.
AVR8 GCC Toolchain 3.5.0 with upstream versions1:
- gcc 4.9.2
- Binutils 2.25
- avr-libc 1.8.0svn
- gdb 7.8
AVR32 GCC Toolchain 3.4.3 with upstream versions1:
- gcc 4.4.7
- Binutils 2.23.1
- Newlib 1.16.0
ARM GCC Toolchain 4.9.3 with upstream versions1:
- gcc 4.9 (revision 221220)
- Binutils 2.24
- gdb 7.8.0.20150304-cvs
The Remote Debugger Installation is intended for computers without Visual Studio
