Assembling the 10018 Dragon top board and the 10019 Dragon bottom boards

The 10018 Top board solders onto the Atmel Dragon, extending the JTAG, ISP, HV PROG, and VCC signals of your Atmel Dragon to a 42-pin header. One or more 10019 daughter boards may be hard-wired configured for the targtet AVR per the connection sheets as illustrated in the Dragon help file in AVR Studio. Solder a ZIF socket and some header pins on one daughter board and use jumpers to configure for any supported AVR. Hard-wire a few other daughter cards for your most often used AVRs. Sold as a set of bare PCBs, you supply the headers, sockets, and solder. A set includes (1) 10018 Top Board and (4) 10019 Daughter Boards. Here's how to assemble the boards and use them with the Atmel Dragon.

The 10019 daughter board is on the left and the 10018 top board is on the right.


(1) Install a 20 pin header in the HV_PROG position of the Atmel AVR Dragon as shown below.


(2) Install the 42-pin, 10-pin JTAG, and 6-pin ISP headers on the 10018 board.


(3) Position the 10018 board over the VCC, JTAG, ISP, and HV_PROG header pins of the Dragon so that the pins mate with and come up through the pads of the 10018 board. Solder two corner pins as shown and adjust so that the 10018 board is level with the Dragon.


(4) Once your sure the 10018 board is sitting level on the Dragon, solder the remaining header pins as shown.


(5) Insert the 42-pin header socket into the bottom of the 10019 board as shown.


(6) Flip the 10019 board over and solder the 42-pin header socket pins as shown.


(7) The 10019 Daughter Board may now be plugged into the 10018 Top Board as shown below.



The steps from here are up to you. I created a dedicated 10019 Daughter Board for parallel programming 28-pin DIP ATmega168's shown below using the SCKT3200A2 configuration illustrated in the AVR Dragon User Guide located in the help file of AVR Studio. You may want to create a couple of dedicated boards and one 10019 board with a 40-pin ZIF socket, header pins, and use f-f jumper leads to configure on the fly.



We have a 20001 Dragon connector kit available, ISP and JTAG cables, 40-pin ZIF sockets, as well as 15cm & 30cm female to female jumper sets. Enjoy and be productive!