MacSamba

MacSamba (Copyright © 2006 - 2009 Nick Howes) is a command line utility program for downloading code into an Atmel ARM CPU via Atmel's SAM-BA and a USB port under Mac OS X. It is released under the GPL. You may use it for free (but donations are gratefully accepted - click on the button below).

I've tested with an Atmel AT91SAM7XC256-EK, and several custom boards using AT91SAM7XC256 and AT91SAM7XC512. It should work with other devices with a few tweaks. MacSamba is slow compared with Atmel SAM-BA (I think because it writes one word at a time). Note that the binary is built for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - for use on older versions, you will need to rebuild it.

There may be bugs in the code that cause malfunctions.
Use this software at your own risk.

Mac OS X

Download the executable, source code and documentation: MacSamba.zip.

Known bugs and issues

Doesn't always recover properly from errors - it you get timeouts or it hangs, reset the target.

You will need to unload the AppleUSBCDC.kext before using MacSamba (which will disable other serial ports):
sudo kextunload /System/Library/Extensions/IOUSBFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBCDC.kext
To reload the kext:
sudo kextload /System/Library/Extensions/IOUSBFamily.kext/Contents/PlugIns/AppleUSBCDC.kext

Send comments, questions, suggestions, bug reports to nick@ghostwood.org