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Tutorial Burn Arduino Bootloader Into An Fresh ATmega2560

This document provides instructions for burning the Arduino bootloader onto a fresh ATmega2560 microcontroller chip. It explains that an Arduino board is needed to program the bootloader, and details how to connect the new chip to the Arduino via the ICSP header and clock crystal. The bootloader sketch is loaded onto the Arduino, which is then used to program the bootloader onto the ATmega2560. Once correctly connected and programmed, the new chip can be programmed via the Arduino IDE.

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Tutorial Burn Arduino Bootloader Into An Fresh ATmega2560

This document provides instructions for burning the Arduino bootloader onto a fresh ATmega2560 microcontroller chip. It explains that an Arduino board is needed to program the bootloader, and details how to connect the new chip to the Arduino via the ICSP header and clock crystal. The bootloader sketch is loaded onto the Arduino, which is then used to program the bootloader onto the ATmega2560. Once correctly connected and programmed, the new chip can be programmed via the Arduino IDE.

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15/12/2014 Burn 

Arduino Bootloader into an fresh ATmega2560

Burn Arduino Bootloader into an fresh ATmega2560
Arduino, easy to use, easy to learn and whats the best part? Its open source. Anyone
can modify it in whatever way they want. So why not make one for our own? As a first
step, we ordered ATmega2560 16AU from ATMEL as sample ICs. It is surface mounted on a
breakout board from NEX­Robotics.

Then it comes the real game, burning the bootloader and making it ready to be
programmed by Arduino IDE.

This post [http://www.gammon.com.au/forum/?id=11635]  from Nick Gammon explains it in detail.

1.  Things we need:
Programming Arduino, either a Uno or Mega, I have tested with both of them, I
hope every other Arduino will work.
16 MHz crystal
Two capacitors of 18­22 pF
Jumpers
ATmega2560 to be bootloaded.
2.  We need to get the bootloader sketch from Nick Gammon. You can get it form his
site or here [http://goo.gl/t7oogN]  .
3.  Place it in your Arduino IDE's sketch folder, "sketchbook". 
4.  Load the sketch in Arduino IDE, connect your programming arduino and upload the
code, and remove the arduino.
5.  Now we need to connect the ATmega to be programmed to the programming arduino.

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 For that, we need to connect the ICSP header of the Arduino to the ATmega.

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The ICSP header provides direct connection to the SPI interface of the chip. We
need to connect these of two chips directly. For an ATmega2560, its like this:

ICSP pin name ICSP pin number ATmega2560 pin number


MISO 1 22
Vcc 2 10,31,61,80 any one of these
SCK 3 20
MOSI 4 21
Reset 5, Do not connect this 30
11,32,62,81 any one of
GND 6
these
We will connect the Reset pin from the ATmega2560 to the D10 of programming
Arduino. This will provide the required reset pulses.
6.  Now, we need to connect an oscillator to the ATmega2560 for the clock signal.

 [http://2.bp.blogspot.com/­ek­

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pg]  The 16MHz crystal should be connected to XTAL1 (pin 34) and XTAL2 (pin 33)
of ATmega2560, as shown in the figure.
7.  The circuit part is over. Now we need to connect the Arduino to USB port and
start the Serial Monitor. It will show something like this, if everything is
fine:

Atmega chip programmer.Written by Nick Gammon.
Entered programming mode OK.
Signature = 0x1E 0x97 0x05
Processor = ATmega256016AU
Flash memory size = 262144 bytes.
LFuse = 0xFF
HFuse = 0xDE
EFuse = 0xFD
Lock byte = 0xEF
Bootloader address = 0x1FC00
Bootloader length = 1024 bytes.
MD5 sum of current bootloader = 77 2F 81 F1 7F 1E 46 93 97 B4 54 23 4C 44 72 68
Type 'V' to verify, or 'G' to program the chip with the bootloader ...

8.  Press G and hit enter. 

It will show the success message.

Thats it:)

Thanks to my partner Rahul Gulve for making this happen. 

Posted 2nd October 2013 by Shahidh
Location: Center For Innovation,IIT Madras, IIT Madras, Indian Institute Of Technology, Chennai, Tamil
Nadu 600036, India
Labels: Arduino, ATmega2560, bootloader, programming

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bala October 18, 2013 at 8:54 PM
Nice Post!
Reply

Muddle headed August 15, 2014 at 9:30 AM
what arrangement did you use for programming 2560 and communicating with arduino IDE?
Reply

Nirvaan Singh November 4, 2014 at 8:16 AM
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