Atmel says: Atmel 7, Easier to Use and More Powerful than Ever

Anyone tried yet?

Have you heard the news?!

Atmel recently announced the release of the [Atmel Studio 7](Problems occurred when retrieving your information Studio 7 %2b START - em1&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&s=1733930802&lid=976&elq=9f0355ce604946e8809bfd05da261c1e&elqaid=951&elqat=1&elqTrackId=9FE6DC4274C544B96F0DF3712A79991E)IDE, delivering significant performance enhancements for developing and debugging, an updated easy-to-use user interface, an improved context sensitive help system, seamless import of sketches from the Arduino IDE—and much more. Atmel Studio 7 also provides visualization of real-time application data and power usage to better optimize application performance and power utilization.

Atmel also introduced the new web-based software configuration and deployment system, [Atmel START](Problems occurred when retrieving your information Studio 7 %2b START - em1&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&s=1733930802&lid=975&elq=9f0355ce604946e8809bfd05da261c1e&elqaid=951&elqat=1&elqTrackId=CCCDA9AF912F22FF3FA06F61F82B1647), enabling developers to spend less time integrating software components and more time focusing on their own application.

Atmel START enables software developers to graphically select software components and configure them for Atmel’s large family of evaluation boards or for their own custom boards. Developers can build software platforms consisting of low-level drivers, advanced middleware, Real Time Operating Systems (RTOS), high-level communication stacks and more, and download the configured software package into their own IDE and build their application.

Learn more about [Atmel Studio 7](Problems occurred when retrieving your information Studio 7 %2b START - em1&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&s=1733930802&lid=976&elq=9f0355ce604946e8809bfd05da261c1e&elqaid=951&elqat=1&elqTrackId=629861EDFFB8F1DAB02F14A637D6A378) and [Atmel START](Problems occurred when retrieving your information Studio 7 %2b START - em1&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&s=1733930802&lid=975&elq=9f0355ce604946e8809bfd05da261c1e&elqaid=951&elqat=1&elqTrackId=28A27DC28CBBFA838FBB81B29513F14F) and how these two innovative platforms help accelerate time-to-market for developers of all levels and profession.

Not yet, just thinking about the 700MB+ download. Probably will get it though.

Yeah; No longer runs on WXP. Wouldn't install on a W10 VM (installer crashed); Generally painful in a W8 VM (though I'm not sure whether or not that's more of a W8 issue.) On the bright side, the install is much less painful than it used to be (all the questions are asked "up-front" and then it just chugs along till done.) And the W10 "burner" laptop seems to run pretty well. I haven't actually done much with it yet.

There are apparently some known bugs and performance issues, ie uploading using debugWire took a big performance hit. There are active discussions over on avrfreaks. (If you're using AS, you should probably be reading AVRFreaks.)