Can I program a 3.3v chip on a 5v board? I bought a Gertboard a while ago, and one of the features it has on-board is an ATMega328 (DIP). However, since the Gertboard is designed for use with the Raspberry Pi, it only operates at 3.3v, so the clock speed is limited to ~12MHz.

Programming it via the Raspberry Pi is quite cumbersome though. Instead, I'd like to transfer the chip to an Arduino Uno board so I can upload sketches from my desktop PC. I would then transfer it back to the Gertboard for normal operation.

The problem is that my Uno operates at the more typical 5v / 16MHz.

Is it safe to attempt this? Do I need to make any configuration changes in the IDE to tell it to account for a different clock speed?
The clock speed selected will affect both delay*() and millis()/micros() as well as the functions in &lt;util/delay.h&gt;, therefore you must use the target system's correct clock speed if you are using any of these functions. This can be easily done by editing boards.txt and copying an existing entry for the Uno and changing the value of the f_cpu parameter to match the target system (in this case, 12000000).

The difference in voltage does not matter, since the chip can run at either voltage and no connection is being made between the 5V system and the 3.3V system.