Hey Nick,
Sorry didn't mean to be rude if it came off that way. As long as you're sure great..thanks for the help. The reason why I said that is because sometimes people on forums just babble(as the old saying goes "everything on the internet is true"). I guess I should have looked at your title and recognized you probably knew what you're saying.
So thanks on that..
So my next question is:
I made a board, which I want to use arduino SW on. It uses an ATMEGA32U4 and has basic features, but is not a copy of the Leonardo Schematic. I wish to load a bootloader for arduino, and then build support for it in Arduino using the 3rd-party as as I am supposed to.
I am a HW engineer, so I am pretty inexperienced for SW(I know C/C++, but haven't used it in 8 years), and the arduino structure.
How can I learn all of this?
So my next question is about the bootloaders...if I make a board using the ATMEGA32U4, and want to put on an Arduino bootloader, can I just use the leonardo(arduino & ATMEGA32U4)?
Here is what I did earlier just to see if I could get it working in Arduino... I found a company called MattairTech, and they have their own ATMEGA32U4. So I used a jtag programmer to load it. It seemed to work...then I installed their files into my arduino...and it can find my COM port, and the device board target. But when I go to load the board...it fails. Perhaps I am totally missing a detail or I have no idea what I am doing lol.
Let me know what you think and thank you for the help,
-Peter