KDE KTechLab Is Being Revived After Nearly A Decade Hiatus

[phoronix]

Phoronix: KDE KTechLab Is Being Revived After Nearly A Decade Hiatus

The KTechLab integrated development environment focused on micro-controller circuit design and simulation is back to being under development after not seeing a major release since 2009...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=KDE-KTechLab-IDE-Back

[Azrael5]

this tool allows to flash bioses into specific chips?

[starshipeleven]

this tool allows to flash bioses into specific chips?

No, it is for microcontroller programming. Arduino are microcontrollers, and there are many other chips like that.

[Azrael5]

No, it is for microcontroller programming. Arduino are microcontrollers, and there are many other chips like that.

tks 4 reply. it works with ch341 programmer?

[starshipeleven]

tks 4 reply. it works with ch341 programmer?

ch341 is a usb-to-serial chip. Any program that uses a serial port can use ch341. This chip is commonly soldered on chinese Arduino clones to convert the microcontroller's serial port into a USB port you can connect to the PC.
Genuine Arduino boards use another chip but any usb-to-serial chip works the same if you have drivers.

But ch341 is not a programmer, maybe you mean some other chip name?

[Adarion]

Interesting, I wasn't aware of that project. (But then, 10 years ago I wasn't interested in AVR chips.) A free Linux / BSD native IDE would be interesting, though my poor skills won't bring an IDE to shine and a text editor + compiler and flasher is okay. Still, reading about possible simulations makes me interested.
But porting to KDE frameworks 5 sounds more than important. After they killed off KDE 4 so quickly one can hardly find a distribution that still supports it (though Gentoo still offers the basic libs and Qt4 for backward compatiblity with yet to be ported programs).

[timofonic]

There's KiCad. Except microcontroller simulation, this project seems pointless to me. Why not merge efforts with KiCad instead?

[Azrael5]

ch341 is a usb-to-serial chip. Any program that uses a serial port can use ch341. This chip is commonly soldered on chinese Arduino clones to convert the microcontroller's serial port into a USB port you can connect to the PC.
Genuine Arduino boards use another chip but any usb-to-serial chip works the same if you have drivers.

But ch341 is not a programmer, maybe you mean some other chip name?

Exactly I mean this devices https://youtu.be/5NYe21nFSDI

[starshipeleven]

Exactly I mean this devices https://youtu.be/5NYe21nFSDI

That device programs memory chips, not microcontrollers, so this software won't use it because it is for working with microcontrollers.

Flashrom version 0.9.9 (a program to program memory chips) supports that device. https://www.flashrom.org/Flashrom/0.9.9

Flashrom is available for Debian Stretch. https://packages.debian.org/stretch/flashrom