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ATtiny1616 Development Board

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Arduino compatible Nano-sized development board powered by ATtiny1616 chip

What is it?

ATtiny1616 Development Board is a small and handy development board built around new generation of ATiny series. It is pin and size compatible with Arduino Nano board and can be used as it's direct replacement (with certain limitations). It can be programmed using both Arduino IDE and Platformio IDE, as well as vanilla console tools.

Why did you make it?

I'm a big fan of early ATtiny series chips, I even made my own ATtiny Flasher tool for productive development and few educational kits based on ubiquitous ATtiny85. Time has come to extend my horizons and look into the modern line of ATtiny chips, specifically so called 1-series and 2-series line of MCUs.

No need to mention that they went far ahead old series, and having resources comparable with old ATmega series. This gave me an idea to make Arduino Nano pin compatible development board, so I can start using it the projects, where I'd normally pick Arduino Nano. In my practice the best way to get familiar with new hardware is to start using it in the actual projects.

Features

  • ATTINY1616 8-bit MCU in a 20-pin package
  • Up to 20 MHz guaranteed by manufacturer, up to 32 MHz reported by community in normal conditions
  • 16 KB Flash
  • 2 KB SRAM
  • 128B of EEPROM
  • UPDI interface for flashing and debugging
  • Onboard 5V LDO (disconnected for low power applications)
  • Flash using Arduino IDE, Platformio, or the IDE of your choice
  • Onboard USB-Serial bridge (CH340E) connected to hardware Serial port
  • One RGB LED (WS2812B)
  • One Push button

ATtiny1616

ATiny1616 is a mid-range chip in new ATtiny 1-Series line. Generally they offer considerably more than older Tiny-series chip, and comparable with classic ATmega AVRs, offering at the same time new MCU features, not available in older series.

  ATTINY88 ATTINY1616 ATmega168P ATmega328P
Max Frequency   20 Mhz 16Mhz 16Mhz
Flash 8KB 16KB 16KB 32KB
SRAM 512B 2KB 1KB 2KB
EEPROM 64B 128B 512B 1024B
GPIO count 28 18 23 23
         
UART No Yes Yes Yes
I2C Yes Yes Yes Yes
SPI Yes Yes Yes Yes
Timers 2 4 3 3
PWM channels 2 4 6 6
ADC pins 8 12 8 8

Arduino Core

Spence Konde created and maintains Arduino Core. This is a great place to start to get to know new chips better, and understand what is supported and what isn't.

How to flash

Another great writeup by the same author on the flashing routines for the new chips. Short summary below

  • (a) Legacy way is to take any Arduino Nano board and use jtag2updi project to make yourself a programmer.
  • (b) Better (read recommended) way is to use SerialUPDI tooling with hardware modified serial programmer
  • (c) Alternative is to use Optiboot bootloader and Serial programmer interface like on Arduino boards

Method (c) is disqualified on 1-Series chip because of RESET/UPDI pin collision, and both (a) and (b) work equally well. Difference being what is easier for you: (a) dedicate Arduino Nano board for programming or (b) do solder job on your USB-serial adapter (upd: no longer required).

Revision A (Discontinued)

Method Connection
jtag2updi image
SerialUPDI(recommended) image

Revision B (shipping currently)

Starting from revision B diode between TX and RX pins are included on the board, so you can use unmodified USB-Serial adapter.

Method Connection
jtag2updi image
SerialUPDI(recommended) image

Revision C (co-exists with rev B)

Working on one of the projects, it came to me, hey, there is already USB-Serial adapter on the board, serving Serial communication. Why not to use it for flashing. So revision C came, no programmer needed, plug-n-play. Drawback is that you lose Serial communication via built-in USB.

Hardware

image

  • imageATTINY1616 MCU
  • imageCH340E USB-Serial Adapter connected to Hardware Serial
  • imageWS2812B RGB LED
  • imageUPDI Programming and Debug header
  • imageHardware Push button
  • imageVIN disconnect - cut this line to disconnect LDO chip and power-on LED, recommended for low-power applications
  • imageRES disconnect - short this line to enable auto-RESET functionality with Optiboot bootloader (read below)

Auto reset with Optiboot 

As explained in many details by Spence, 1-Series chips cannot provide Arduino-like one-click-upload with Optiboot behavior without some sacrifice. Reason for that is pin collision: UPDI and RESET are the same pin, so you need to decide which you'd prefer. If you use auto-reset, you lose UPDI, specifically possibility to change fuses easily (this is important in my opinion). If you use UPDI you need 2 connections to your MCU - one via programming interface, another one for Serial communication.

Personally I prefer to keep UPDI and use direct programming without custom bootloader, having extra wire is minor inconvenience for me, but losing fuses permanently is not an option.

 

Documentation

Source Code

Documentation

 

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Hobbyist and maker, first took soldering iron at the age of 9 and never dropped it since. Fond of audio related electronics and products. Currently developing everything within 8 to 64 bits range, including cloud connected devices.