This document tries to tie together the labors of a large group of people. Without these individuals\textquotesingle{} efforts, we wouldn\textquotesingle{}t have a terrific, {\itshape {\bfseries{free}}} set of tools to develop A\+VR projects. We all owe thanks to\+:


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\item The G\+CC Team, which produced a very capable set of development tools for an amazing number of platforms and processors.
\item Denis Chertykov \mbox{[} \href{mailto:denisc@overta.ru}{\texttt{ denisc@overta.\+ru}} \mbox{]} for making the A\+V\+R-\/specific changes to the G\+NU tools.
\item Denis Chertykov and Marek Michalkiewicz \mbox{[} \href{mailto:marekm@linux.org.pl}{\texttt{ marekm@linux.\+org.\+pl}} \mbox{]} for developing the standard libraries and startup code for {\bfseries{A\+V\+R-\/\+G\+CC}}.
\item Uros Platise for developing the A\+VR programmer tool, {\bfseries{uisp}}.
\item Joerg Wunsch \mbox{[} \href{mailto:joerg@FreeBSD.ORG}{\texttt{ joerg@\+Free\+B\+S\+D.\+O\+RG}} \mbox{]} for adding all the A\+VR development tools to the Free\+B\+SD \mbox{[} \href{http://www.freebsd.org}{\texttt{ http\+://www.\+freebsd.\+org}} \mbox{]} ports tree and for providing the basics for the \mbox{\hyperlink{group__demo__project}{demo project}}.
\item Brian Dean \mbox{[} \href{mailto:bsd@bsdhome.com}{\texttt{ bsd@bsdhome.\+com}} \mbox{]} for developing {\bfseries{avrdude}} (an alternative to {\bfseries{uisp}}) and for contributing \mbox{\hyperlink{using_avrprog}{documentation}} which describes how to use it. {\bfseries{Avrdude}} was previously called {\bfseries{avrprog}}.
\item Eric Weddington \mbox{[} \href{mailto:eweddington@cso.atmel.com}{\texttt{ eweddington@cso.\+atmel.\+com}} \mbox{]} for maintaining the {\bfseries{Win\+A\+VR}} package and thus making the continued improvements to the open source A\+VR toolchain available to many users.
\item Rich Neswold for writing the original avr-\/tools document (which he graciously allowed to be merged into this document) and his improvements to the \mbox{\hyperlink{group__demo__project}{demo project}}.
\item Theodore A. Roth for having been a long-\/time maintainer of many of the tools ({\bfseries{A\+V\+R-\/\+Libc}}, the A\+VR port of {\bfseries{G\+DB}}, {\bfseries{A\+Va\+R\+I\+CE}}, {\bfseries{uisp}}, {\bfseries{avrdude}}).
\item All the people who currently maintain the tools, and/or have submitted suggestions, patches and bug reports. (See the A\+U\+T\+H\+O\+RS files of the various tools.)
\item And lastly, all the users who use the software. If nobody used the software, we would probably not be very motivated to continue to develop it. Keep those bug reports coming. ;-\/) 
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