diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/avarice/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/avarice/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d15c0bc59a81
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/avarice/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, pkgconfig, perl, libusb }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+
+  name="avarice-2.13";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "mirror://sourceforge/avarice/${name}.tar.bz2";
+    sha256 = "0jhh1h1k5b41v2ycq8kn43nkrkh0b9l7xjmw38rak871g3z3hix1";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ pkgconfig perl libusb ];
+
+  meta = {
+    license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl2;
+    description = "AVaRICE translates between GDB's remote debug protocol and the AVR JTAG ICE protocol";
+    homepage = http://sourceforge.net/projects/avarice/files/avarice/;
+    maintainers = [ stdenv.lib.maintainers.smironov ];
+  };
+}
+
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 38b1a230cc86..dcae246f5218 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -3281,6 +3281,8 @@ let
 
   avrdude = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/avrdude { };
 
+  avarice = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/avarice { };
+
   bam = callPackage ../development/tools/build-managers/bam {};
 
   binutils = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/binutils {