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Atmel Studio 6 - The Integrated Development Environment
Atmel® Studio 6 is the integrated development environment (IDE) for developing and debugging Atmel ARM® Cortex™-M and Atmel AVR® microcontroller (MCU) based applications. The Atmel Studio 6 IDE gives you a seamless and easy-to-use environment to write, build and debug your applications written in C/C++ or assembly code.
Atmel Studio 6 is free of charge and comes with a large library of free source code — with 1,100 ARM and AVR project examples — to streamline your design process. Use the IDE for our wide variety of AVR and Cortex-M processor-based MCUs, including our broadened portfolio of Atmel SAM3 Cortex-M3 Flash devices.
Device Support and Software Libraries
The Atmel Software Framework, formerly called AVR Software Framework, is a collection of production-ready source code such as drivers, communication stacks, graphic services and touch functionality. Tap into 1,100 project examples with source code to accelerate development of new applications.
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QTouch Composer - Fully Integrated
The Atmel QTouch® Composer, formerly called QTouch Studio, is fully integrated in Atmel Studio 6, so you can easily and seamlessly develop capacitive touch functionality for your application. This simplifies the design process by tying together the tools required to edit the code in Atmel Studio 6 and tune the touch design in QTouch Composer.
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Editor and C/C++ Compiler
Atmel Studio 6 includes a powerful editor with visual assist, a GNU C/C++ Compiler and a New Project Wizard to jump-start as well as ease your application code development.
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Debugging and Simulation
Atmel Studio 6 connects seamlessly to all Atmel debuggers, programmers and the AVR simulator. The IDE presents MCU status in nicely formatted views, giving you fast access to critical system parameters.
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