This will emulate an arduino. Right now it loads the bootloader, then wait on it's "serial port" (a pseudo tty) until someone programs it... eventualy it timesout and run the previous app that was programmed. Once that bridge is setup, launch simduino: % ./simduino Starting atmega328 - flashend 7fff ramend 08ff e2end 03ff atmega328 init read_ihex_file: ATmegaBOOT_168_atmega328.ihex, unsupported check type 03 Booloader 7800: 1950 uart_pty_init bridge on port *** /dev/pts/11 *** uart_pty_connect: /tmp/simavr-uart0 now points to /dev/pts/11 note: export SIMAVR_UART_XTERM=1 and install picocom to get a terminal UART-0 configured to 0010 = 58823 bps (x1), 5 data 1 stop Roughtly 136 usec per bytes What that is done, you have a few seconds to program it: % avrdude -p m328p -c arduino -P /tmp/simavr-uart0 -U flash:w:atmega328p_dummy_blinky.hex avrdude: AVR device initialized and ready to accept instructions Reading | ################################################## | 100% 0.01s avrdude: Device signature = 0x1e950f avrdude: NOTE: FLASH memory has been specified, an erase cycle will be performed To disable this feature, specify the -D option. avrdude: erasing chip avrdude: reading input file "atmega328p_dummy_blinky.hex" avrdude: input file atmega328p_dummy_blinky.hex auto detected as Intel Hex avrdude: writing flash (394 bytes): Writing | ################################################## | 100% 0.15s avrdude: 394 bytes of flash written avrdude: verifying flash memory against atmega328p_dummy_blinky.hex: avrdude: load data flash data from input file atmega328p_dummy_blinky.hex: avrdude: input file atmega328p_dummy_blinky.hex auto detected as Intel Hex avrdude: input file atmega328p_dummy_blinky.hex contains 394 bytes avrdude: reading on-chip flash data: Reading | ################################################## | 100% 0.13s avrdude: verifying ... avrdude: 394 bytes of flash verified avrdude: safemode: Fuses OK avrdude done. Thank you. simduino will display that: Erasing page 0000 (128) Writing page 0000 (128) Erasing page 0001 (128) Writing page 0001 (128) Erasing page 0002 (128) Writing page 0002 (128) Erasing page 0003 (128) Writing page 0003 (128) And then jump to the program that was programmed. The example doesn't do anything useful, it's a placeholder... Michel Pollet