I want to design a bare-minimum board based on the Atmega328. I want to be able to use chips without a bootloader since they are cheaper. I want to save space and not have the ICSP connection on my board at all. I do need the FTDI chip for future updates. So my question is, can I burn a bootloader …

Burning a bootloader without an ICSP connection

szangvil November 5, 2012, 7:33pm 3

Thanks.

How do I know what bootloader is burned into a chip (and if one is burned at all)?