So, I have placed an order at digikey and a few days later I became the proud owner of an inexpensive Atmel ICE board (again, in comparison to the prices 15.20 years ago!) I went for the basic kit, which comes with a 10-pin/6-pin cable and USB-micro cable. I was then glad to hear about the free ATMEL Visual Studio IDE - only to find out that a) The Arduino Mega2560 ♜ does not support the so-called debug-wire interface, but JTAG and b) I need an in-circuit-emulator/JTAG device. Support for any level of debugging, stepping commands, monitoring registers - nada. I am still at the very beginning, but it quickly became obvious that the Arduino "IDE" is nothing but a programming tool - not a real development environment. An opportunity to get me back into programming - I was into VHDL and Motorola HC11-programming many, many moons ago- I am sure some of you will remember those days of expensive tools such as Codewarrior or IAR workbench and endless evenings dealing with mnemonics such as LDAA, LRSA etc. However, I became intrigued by the idea of a low-cost, fairly powerful ♜-platform over the past years. Good Day my fellow Arduino enthusiasts, Prologue: I frankly admit it: I am late to the Arduino party.
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