just curious to know a full explanation of what is bossac for when i buy a Due. google search shows not much on bossac. due relies on bossac it says on the due page

Due relies on bossac ,whats that ?

system December 20, 2012, 10:54pm 3

why not just stick with a atmel studio 6 and a avrisp programmer?

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