AVR32 is a fairly new 32bit microcontroller core developed by Atmel. Design goals were high integration, low power consumption and a modern 32bit instruction set. Fortunately, Atmel decided to implement an AVR32 backend for the GCC compiler collection and to base the AVR32Studio IDE on Eclipse which is a Java application, so that high-quality development software is for free for GNU/Linux. Whether you would like to use a fancy IDE like Eclipse or prefer to work with Makefiles and an editor, the AVR32 GNU utils are your friends. AVR32 Studio is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for developing AVR32 applications. AVR32 Studio provides a complete set of features including project management and version control integration (CVS); a C/C++ editor with syntax highlighting and code completion; a debugger supporting run control including source and instruction-level stepping and breakpoints; registers, memory and I/O views; and target configuration and management. AVR32 Studio integrates with the GNU Toolchain for AVR32. The GNU C Compiler (GCC) is used for compiling C/C++ programs, while the GNU debugger (GDB) is used for debugging the application on target.