Recently I was looking for a "lower" cost microcontroller for my projects and found the ATTiny1616 which in quantites of 50 runs for just over 50 cents. To program the device I used MicroChips MPLAB X to write and compile the software and using PICKIT 5 to download the program.
During this endevor I've seen numerous ways to use the Arduino IDE to program the ATTiny processors so I decided to go down that rabbit hole.
I order a CH340 based USB UART board (from Amazon) to explore the UPDI programming interface.
A new board manager in the Arduino IDE is needed. Under File/Preferenced the following needs to be added.
http://drazzy.com/package_drazzy.com_index.json
After this is under Tools/Board: select board manager and then search for and install megatinycore.
