The ATXMega chips are not available as through-hole devices. The ATXMega32E5 is a high powered substitute for the ATMega328P made famous by Arduino. This breakout board brings out all pins except port R (but instead adds footprints for a 1206 crystal) and the analog Vcc and ground (hooked together with bypass caps to digital Vcc and ground). In addition to breaking out the two PDI pins, a standard 2x3 PDI programming interface footprint is on the board.

Note that this is not a 5 volt tolerant chip.

This version adds the recommended bypass/filtering components to the analog Vcc pin.

• C1 & C2 - 0.1µF 0805
• C3 & C4 - 15 pF 0805
• C5 - 10 µF 0805
• L1 - 400Ω ferrite bead
• R1 - 10 kΩ 0805
• X1 - 32.768 kHz 1206
• And, of course, IC1 is an ATXMegannE5

This is a super-cheap adapter for standard AVR ISP programmers to projects on a breadboard.

Install a shrouded 2x3 header on the top side, and a 1x6 SIP header on the bottom side. Plug the SIP header into your breadboard and connect a standard 6 pin ISP cable to the shrouded jack.

You can also use it for PDI. In this case, hook up Vcc and GND as usual, then connect !RESET to !RESET/PDI-C and MISO to PDI-D.

This was an April Fool’s joke… but I don’t think anyone got it.

This is a version of my FTDI-be-gone RS-232 board, but with SSOP instead of QFN parts, and designed to be directly wired to a USB cable. Connect the signal/power ground pin of the USB cable to the GND pin and connect the cable’s shield to the SHLD pin of the USB connector (there is an RC circuit between the two designed to break ground loops but shunt AC to ground). Mount a PC pin DB9M on the edge of the board for the RS-232 connection.

• IC1 - CY7C65213
• IC2 - MAX3243ECDB
• FB1 - 400Ω ferrite bead
• C1-C4, C7 - 1µF
• C5 & C6 - 0.1µF
• C9 - 0.01µF
• C8 - 10µF
• C10 - 4700pF
• R1 & R2 - 330Ω
• R3 - 1MΩ
• TX & RX - 0805 LEDS

NOTE: Both ICs have pin 1 oriented towards the bottom of the board.