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Programming tools can take advantage of the fuse information embedded in the ELF file, by extracting this information and determining if the fuses need to be programmed before programming the Flash and EEPROM memories. This also allows a single ELF file to contain all the information needed to program an AVR.
To use the Fuse API, include the <avr/io.h> header file, which in turn automatically includes the individual I/O header file and the <avr/fuse.h> file. These other two files provides everything necessary to set the AVR fuses.
A new type, __fuse_t, is defined as a structure. The number of fields in this structure are determined by the number of fuse bytes in the FUSE_MEMORY_SIZE macro.
If FUSE_MEMORY_SIZE == 1, there is only a single field: byte, of type unsigned char.
If FUSE_MEMORY_SIZE == 2, there are two fields: low, and high, of type unsigned char.
If FUSE_MEMORY_SIZE == 3, there are three fields: low, high, and extended, of type unsigned char.
If FUSE_MEMORY_SIZE > 3, there is a single field: byte, which is an array of unsigned char with the size of the array being FUSE_MEMORY_SIZE.
A convenience macro, FUSEMEM, is defined as a GCC attribute for a custom-named section of ".fuse".
A convenience macro, FUSES, is defined that declares a variable, __fuse, of type __fuse_t with the attribute defined by FUSEMEM. This variable allows the end user to easily set the fuse data.
#define FUSE_EESAVE ~_BV(3)
(FUSE_BOOTSZ0 & FUSE_BOOTSZ1 & FUSE_EESAVE & FUSE_SPIEN & FUSE_JTAGEN)
Each device I/O header file also defines macros that provide default values for each fuse byte that is available. LFUSE_DEFAULT is defined for a Low Fuse byte. HFUSE_DEFAULT is defined for a High Fuse byte. EFUSE_DEFAULT is defined for an Extended Fuse byte.
If FUSE_MEMORY_SIZE > 3, then the I/O header file defines macros that provide default values for each fuse byte like so: FUSE0_DEFAULT FUSE1_DEFAULT FUSE2_DEFAULT FUSE3_DEFAULT FUSE4_DEFAULT ....
#include <avr/io.h> FUSES = { .low = LFUSE_DEFAULT, .high = (FUSE_BOOTSZ0 & FUSE_BOOTSZ1 & FUSE_EESAVE & FUSE_SPIEN & FUSE_JTAGEN), .extended = EFUSE_DEFAULT, }; int main(void) { return 0; }
Or, using the variable directly instead of the FUSES macro,
#include <avr/io.h> __fuse_t __fuse __attribute__((section (".fuse"))) = { .low = LFUSE_DEFAULT, .high = (FUSE_BOOTSZ0 & FUSE_BOOTSZ1 & FUSE_EESAVE & FUSE_SPIEN & FUSE_JTAGEN), .extended = EFUSE_DEFAULT, }; int main(void) { return 0; }
If you are compiling in C++, you cannot use the designated intializers so you must do:
#include <avr/io.h> FUSES = { LFUSE_DEFAULT, // .low (FUSE_BOOTSZ0 & FUSE_BOOTSZ1 & FUSE_EESAVE & FUSE_SPIEN & FUSE_JTAGEN), // .high EFUSE_DEFAULT, // .extended }; int main(void) { return 0; }
However there are a number of caveats that you need to be aware of to use this API properly.
Be sure to include <avr/io.h> to get all of the definitions for the API. The FUSES macro defines a global variable to store the fuse data. This variable is assigned to its own linker section. Assign the desired fuse values immediately in the variable initialization.
The .fuse section in the ELF file will get its values from the initial variable assignment ONLY. This means that you can NOT assign values to this variable in functions and the new values will not be put into the ELF .fuse section.
The global variable is declared in the FUSES macro has two leading underscores, which means that it is reserved for the "implementation", meaning the library, so it will not conflict with a user-named variable.
You must initialize ALL fields in the __fuse_t structure. This is because the fuse bits in all bytes default to a logical 1, meaning unprogrammed. Normal uninitialized data defaults to all locgial zeros. So it is vital that all fuse bytes are initialized, even with default data. If they are not, then the fuse bits may not programmed to the desired settings.
Be sure to have the -mmcu=device flag in your compile command line and your linker command line to have the correct device selected and to have the correct I/O header file included when you include <avr/io.h>.
You can print out the contents of the .fuse section in the ELF file by using this command line:
avr-objdump -s -j .fuse <ELF file>