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WinAVR is an important tool for AVR development. Even after installing AVRStudio as an IDE, people install another tool WinAVR because it has very good documentation.

WinAVR^TM (pronounced "whenever") is a suite of executable, open source software development tools for the Atmel AVR series of RISC microprocessors hosted on the Windows platform. It includes the GNU GCC compiler for C and C++.

Check out the WinAVR^TM project on Sourceforge at http://sourceforge.net/projects/winavr/ for developer information.

WinAVR^TM contains all the tools for developing on the AVR.
This includes:

• avr-gcc (compiler)
• avrdude (programmer)
• avr-gdb (debugger)
• avr-libc (with a good HTML help Documentation)
• and more .....

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