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[[category:Starter AVR]]
In this tutorial we will look at setting up the starter AVR board. Once you have done with this basic set up, you can use on board peripherals as well as many other peripherals which can be connected to board using on board GPIO's.
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=Basics=

This board comes with a ATmega 32 microcontroller, which has arduino bootloader flashed into it.
To program this board using SPI and external programmer check out our [[AVR Hardware and Software Setup]] tutorial <br>
As starter AVR board comes with inbuilt arduino boot loader and this board has on board USB to serial converter indicated by '8' in below diagram so you need to connect only B type USB cable to port indicated by '9' in below diagram. 
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=Hookup=
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To power up and program the starter AVR board connect type B USB cable as shown in figure. For installing drivers for starter AVR board check out our [[Installing CP2102 USB Drivers]] tutorial.
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=Software Setup=
In this tutorial series we are using "Xplore Flash" software to program the target MCU. 
Steps below show how to trasfer the hex file to the MCU using Xplore Flash.
# Open the Xplore Flash and select programmer as '''Arduino''' .
# Connect the starter AVR board to computer, it will detect as a COM port. Select detected COM port and set baud rate '''19200''' .
# Click on ''''Detect'''', it will detect the MCU as '''ATmega32'''.
# After detecting the MCU browse the hex file .''
# Then just click on '''Go''', It will erase, Flash and verifies the hex file.

[[file:xploreflash_6.PNG]]
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Checkout the [[Blinky with Starter AVR  ]] tutorial, on how to set up the software, generate a hex file and blink an LED.



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