Burning hex files using USBasp

AVRDude is excellent program for burning hex code into microcontroller. USBasp is awesome USB based programmer for the AVR. In this tutorial we will see how to use AVRdude for burning hex files into AVR microcontroller using USBasp.

AVRdude is not readily available for windows installation. Windows version of AVRdude is bundled with WinAVR compiler. Before we start : Download WinAVR from here.

USBasp driver installation

In this post we will see how to install windows driver for USBasp. Steps explained below are applicable for WindowsXP:

Download driver:
If you don’t have driver, windows drivers for USBasp can be downloaded from:
http://www.fischl.de/usbasp/usbasp.2009-02-28.tar.gz
Extract the downloaded archive into some directory.