Creating a Custom Board in Atmel Studio

This video explains how to create a program for a custom board, as opposed to using a development board. Specifically, I made my own application using a SAM4S8B ARM microcontroller. Table of contents below:

00:00 - Introduction
00:45 - Creating a new project
01:43 - Exploring the initial project
03:11 - ASF
05:58 - Clock configuration
07:39 - Main function structure
09:26 - Using example projects
20:48 - Adding .c and .h files
28:53 - Building the solution
29:18 - Conclusion

[ralvholmsen]

Excellent pace and thoroughness! Well done!

[fijabo]

Ilya,
I found your video very REFRESHING even though it has a very lousy quality. I cannot read most of the texts and letters shown in this video. Anyway, I really wanted to thank you. I wonder if you would answer to a question. For example, I am trying to follow you using the Atmel Studio application and I cannot pass your directions after 1:31 minutes into the video. After selecting the microcontroller (ATxmega164AU) a pop-up window tells me to select a user board. After selecting the "User Board template - XMEGA AU", another window shows up but this time is the following error message:
"Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection. Parameter name: index"
Any help or recommendation is greatly appreciated. Keep up the good work!

[Veso]

What do you do if your board is not listed?
I have a AT91SAM9260 chip made into a custom development board
is it possible to add it somehow, (probably I would only need to tell Atmel Studio on how to upload its program to the board and how to debug over USB)

I also have GCC toolchain for this board, so I would probably need to tell Atmel Studio where to find it when compiling c/c++ code
Thanks for Anwsering and Best Regards

[prasadvaidya]

The program files for me is different from what is shown in this video. Is anything they changed in 2021? My device is SAMd21j18A
-- main.c ( system.init() function call insted of board.init())
-- conf_clocks.h (got the complete list of DPLL, All GCLK generators, system clock parameters)

[xland]

Great tutorial, very well explained. I think this is a lot more difficult compared with other microcontrollers because things are in so many different layers.
I am programming a SAM4E and I am struggling a lot.
But do you know why the SAM4E does not have a ADC module and also not a ADC example project? Eventhough is has ADC pins.

[yuganshbansal]

Hello Ilya, I am working on ATSAMB11 BLE chip. In my ASF wizard, i can not find "delay routines" and "system clock" services.
Does different device chips have diifferent modules in the ASF wizard ? I am using Atmel Studio 7

[redsddd]

awesome copy paste is Maybe open datasheet hmmm...?l and understand howbto programing??