Hello,
I have had a bit of a search, but so far I cant find a High Voltage Programmer for AVR's, that is ideally USB interfaced.
Does anyone know of a good one?
From time to time I stuff up fuse bits or do something stupid, which is where a HV Programmer would be brilliant so I can recover the processor.
I have seen one that is specifically for DIP28's etc, however I want one with a standard ISP plug, so I can program 2560's etc.
Do these exist?
Thanks
James
Actually just came across 2 not bad links, but still not ideally what I am after but they fix fuse bits, and could be easy to build/customize.
http://diy.elektroda.eu/atmega-fusebit-doctor-hvpp/?lang=en
and
How bout in shield form?
Requires a functional Arduino of course.
EDIT:
I've never used it. It looks nice though.
"The HV Rescue Shield 2 is a high voltage parallel mode fuse programmer for Atmel AVR microcontrollers."
Yep that is the one I was referring to in the first post.
Still, very nice though.
The STK500 does HV programming, RS232 though and as I just found out doesn't directly support the Tiny84.
I've used it with 861s and 85s before though.
Rob
I want one with a standard ISP plug
You realize that for most of the AVR devices, "High voltage programming" is a parallel-mode thing for which the "standard ISP plug" is quite useless? Only a small number of devices support a high-voltage serial programming mode (mostly the low-pin-count chips where it is common/necessary to disable the normal "reset" pin.)
Yeah the more I am reading the more I am finding out what I am wanting isnt actually possible.
Oh well, now its documented in the forum 
In my "industrial Mega" design I allowed for the appropriate pins to be accessible and also to isolate the RST line so the 12v wouldn't kill anything.
I'd have to bodge up an adaptor with a few wires but at least HV programming would be doable with the chip in circuit.
Rob
I was going to suggest a debugWIRE programmer but they are somewhat expensive (~$130 $60 - the AVR Dragon supports debugWIRE) and I don't think debugWIRE can be used to reset fuses (but, apparently, the Dragon can also do high-voltage programming).