arduino nano clone is not working

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Dear all,
In our lab, we are making a clone of an arduino nano. The website of the conception of the arduino is :

This clone is v3, which uses atmgea168-20AU microcontroler.

We have finished the building of this card, and now we try to burn a Sketch on it, but it is not working, we have this message when burning a skech :

avrdude: Version 5.11, compiled on Sep 2 2011 at 19:38:36
Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/
Copyright (c) 2007-2009 Joerg Wunsch

System wide configuration file is "C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino/hardware/tools/avr/etc/avrdude.conf"

Using Port : COM29
Using Programmer : arduino
Overriding Baud Rate : 19200
avrdude: Send: 0 [30] [20]
avrdude: Send: 0 [30] [20]
avrdude: Send: 0 [30] [20]
avrdude: Recv:
avrdude: stk500_getsync(): not in sync: resp=0x00

avrdude done. Thank you.

In the arduino IDE, we set the port com to the rignt port com where arduino is connected.

I choosed the following setting in the IDE arduino before burning

  1. Nano board,
  2. and Atmega168 microcontroler.
  3. and the port com 29.
    Note that when I try to burn a Sketch , I see the rx led of arduino is is blinking 3 time and then I see the folowing message:

prinf the error message:
avrdude: Recv:
avrdude: stk500_getsync(): not in sync: resp=0x00

Note that when I used an official Nano, the burning is done whitout any problem, however with the nano clone one which we have made, it is not working.

I looked with my best all around this forum but I did not find a semilar problem, I will do appreciate any help to know why I have this issue ? And why I cannot burn a skech correctly.

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I have tried to burn the bootloader with AVRISP mkII, with ATMEL studio, but the software gives me a message of « the divece is not recognized ». This message appears when I try to read the signature of the device.

So, I still have not succed to burn the bootloader.

I do not know why the device(nano clone which uses atmega168) is not recoginzed?

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Dear all,
The burning of a Sketch is working via AVRISP, but still not working via the usb and arduino IDE for the nano clone device.

When a Sketch is burned with AVRISP to the clone nano device, and when I open the the serial port to see the messages, every thing works fine. All the messages that I have printed out the serial port are seen; and the Sketch works fine on the arduino clone device.

The problem I have is that I still cannot burn a program with the usb of the nano clone device. Also another problem linked to the usb arduino clone is: when I connect the clone nano to the computer via the usb: the usb of the nano clone is not recognized imediately. It shows me "unknown device" in the "printer and device". I take a lot of (re) plugin of the nano clone in order to recognize it and then attribute finaly a port com.

The error message shown on the arduino IDE (error messag when I try to burn a sketch via usb) is:

avrdude: Version 5.11, compiled on Sep 2 2011 at 19:38:36
Copyright (c) 2000-2005 Brian Dean, http://www.bdmicro.com/
Copyright (c) 2007-2009 Joerg Wunsch

System wide configuration file is "C:\Program Files (x86)\Arduino/hardware/tools/avr/etc/avrdude.conf"

Using Port : COM32
Using Programmer : arduino
Overriding Baud Rate : 57600
avrdude: Send: 0 [30] [20]
avrdude: Send: 0 [30] [20]
avrdude: Send: 0 [30] [20]
avrdude: Recv: . [e0]
avrdude: stk500_getsync(): not in sync: resp=0xe0

avrdude done. Thank you.

However, when the clone device is recongized, and when I burn a Sketch with IVRISP, everything works fine, and I can read all the messages that I printed out the serial port.

Could you please tell me why I can not burn a Sketch via the usb for the nano clone via the arduino IDE; and why the nano clone is not recognized imediatly?

(Note that for a normal nano (not a clone one) evrything works fine, the Sketch is burned fine and nano device is recognized fine also, via usb and AVRISP).

Thank you for your previous help.
Best regards,

Happy

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1} Unless you have successfully burned a bootloader onto the chip using AVRISP, you simply cannot download sketches via USB.

2} You must have the auto-reset circuit correctly implemented, or else use manual reset immediately (and only momentarily) you see the "Compiled Sketch" message in the IDE.

3} Note what spycatcher2k said.

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please you find attached the close up in focus photo of the board, and the manufacturer one too. I missed to add these photos for spycatcher2k.
As I mentioned, the problem consits of:
1 ) could not burn a Sketch with usb on the IDE interface. But the burning works fine with the AVRISP; and the Sketch works fine too once we burned it with AVRISP.

  1. We have a problem of a recognization of the nano clone device. To recognize the clone device, I had to plug-in the nano clone several times(and by miracle, the nano clone is recognized).

I have also tried to burn with avrdude command a ".hex" file generated by a compiled Sketch, but without success for the nano clone (for the normal nano, it works fine).

I do not know what is the problem? and how can fix these two issues.

Thank you in advance for your precious help.

Happy

board_photos.rar (2.6 MB)

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I have resolved the issues:).
These is what I did for both (1) and (2) issues:

  • For the issue (1), to burn a cketch with IDE, I have first burned a bootlader with AVRISP on the nano clone. Onec this is done, I succed to burn a skecth on the IDE. Make sure to do not burn with AVRISP any other file other than the bootlader. Indded, the IDE needs this bootlader in the memory of arduino.

  • For the issue (2) , to recongnize the usb device, I burned the usb EEPROM with FT_Prog (this software is available on FTDI website), and then I changed the parametters: PID and the VID to 6001 and 0403, respectiveley. Before this modification, the PID and VID was set to 0, which causes the problem of Unknown device for w7.

I hope that this will help someone.
Thank you for all,
Best regards,

Happy