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Burning Arduino Bootloader with AVR USBASP

Published by: hyng on December 19, 2011.
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In the last article on AVR-USBASP, we have talk about how to use the USBasp to directly program the Arduino without Bootloader. Which
mean there is no longer need the USB to serial circuit on the Arduino board. For this article, we will show you the simplest way to burn the
Arduino Bootloader firmware to the ATMEGA328P microcontroller on Arduino Board. Please be noted that every Arduino Board comes with a
microcontroller pre-program with Bootloader firmware. Therefore, there is no need to burn the bootloader firmware again if you are getting
an Arduino Board.

Step 1: Get an AVR USBASP programmer

The USBasp programmer can be obtained from here.

Step 2: Connect the USBASP programmer to the Arduino Board

The socket from USBasp to ICSP connector on Arduino Board is not compatible. You cant directly connect raibow cable to the Arduino
Board.

Therefore, you need to find a way to connect the USBasp to the Arduino board. In this case, female to female jumper wire is used. The
jumpers is not included in the AVR USBASP. The connection is shown as in the photo above. For the detail connection, please refer to the
AVR-USBASP Users Manual which can be downloaded in the product page of AVR-USBASP.

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If the ATMEGA microcontroller is used for the first time (fresh), the jumper wire on
AVR-USBASP must be shorted as shown in the photo above. Else the communication may fail. It is due to the new fresh microcontroller are
factory programmed for slow internal oscilator, thus we have to tell the USBASP programmer to program with slow speed. It is done by
short the jumper wire above. It takes a longer time during the programming as it is programmed with slow speed. After the ATMEGA
microcontroller is programmed for the first time, the mini jumper may disconnect (open) and the programming will be faster.

Step 3: Burning the bootloader, this may take few minutes

After connect the AVR-USBASP from your computer to the arduino board, open the arduino IDE and click on Tools menu and under the
Programmer sub-menu select USBasp.

Then, click on the Burn Bootloader to start burning the bootloader under Tools menu.

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During the burning progress, the arduino software will display like photo above. If the jumper wire on the programmer is shorted, the
programming process may take up to 5 minutes as it is in slow speed. So be patient!

Arduino IDE will display Done burning bootloader after it is done! Thats all!

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9 responses to Burning Arduino Bootloader with AVR USBASP

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mr_hacker90 says:
September 24, 2012 at 4:36 am

thank you for the tutorial. really do help me a lot.

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mynn says:
February 8, 2013 at 1:09 am

i tried to burn the bootloader but failed, i received this message

avrdude: stk500_getsync(): not in sync: resp=0x00
can somebody help me out?
3.

Nizam Beg says:

March 3, 2013 at 2:43 pm

Please mention your Operating System and Board Details (MCU etc). so that I may help you.
4.

hyng says:
March 4, 2013 at 2:51 pm

mynn,
Make sure your programmer is detected by the computer.
Pls further discuss in our technical forum.
5.

brian says:
April 15, 2013 at 3:34 am

hello i am using 1.0 verison. having avr usbisp and i put blank ATMEGA 168-20PU on ARDUIDO UNO. i got this error by avrdude: warning:
cannot set sck period. please check for usbasp firmware update.
do you know how to firmware update on ATMEGA 168PU or usbasp firmware update?
does usbasp have to be set up COM port?
6.

brian says:
April 20, 2013 at 1:47 am

it does not working on my usbasp to my UNO atmega 358p its needed to be update firmware.
7.

Streetjerk says:
July 5, 2013 at 11:46 pm

Brian have u tried uploading blinky on the chip even after the message usbasp firmware update ?
I had also got some error when i tried uploading bootloader bt later on i say that it had got bootloaded even after the error message.. have a check..
8.

Faizal says:
November 19, 2013 at 9:13 pm

Ok, once I have burnt the bootloader, how do I upload a sketch into the arduino set? Cause i keep getting failure

9. Arduino Mini Workshop Dec 2011 Tutorial by Cytron says:

September 14, 2015 at 2:42 pm

[] there are several files in atmega folder, but for Duemilanove, ATmegaBOOT_168_atmega328.hex is the bootloader file. If you want to burn
bootloader firmware to a fresh new ATmega328, please refer to this tutorial: Burning Arduino Bootloader with AVR USBASP. []

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