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Before I bought FC8 I asked Managing Director (Sales & Marketing) Liam Walton (Tue, 29 May 2018 ) why Arduino is separated from AVR and do I need to buy both: AVR and Arduino.
The answer was: It sounds like you do not need to order AVR, but to be clear about what chips you are using, have a look at the attached datasheet
After the FC8 installation I checked the target devices and found out that Arduino Uno board and LilyPad is free to use. However I could not find the product I payed for: Arduino (boards). I can not use Atmega2560 board or any other Arduino boards (when tried to compile Atmega2560 I was told by FC8 that I need AVR licence to do that).
I checked: https://www.matrixtsl.com/flowcode/ and found out that (yes) - Arduino should be a separate package with a separate licence.
When I tried: Menu->Build->Choose a target: I found next devices:
No chip, AVR, RPI, Free, ARD, PIC16, ARM, PIC32....
Where is Arduino?

I found the Arduino boards/devices.
They are hidden first.
You have to go to: Build->Project options->Choose a target->Free->Arduino Uno (as board).
Attach you Mega2560 project to Uno (first). Close it.
And do again:
Build->Project options->Choose a target->Free->
Now you will have all Arduino boards listed.
I am not sure why it is so complicated.

viktor_au wrote:I am not sure why it is so complicated.

It is a bit strange that not all the Arduino boards show up in the project target dialog

Have you looked at the correct chip pack (ARD) for Arduino?

why Arduino is separated from AVR and do I need to buy both: AVR and Arduino.

A lot of customers have come from Arduino IDE and they only ever want to use Arduino hardware, in v7 the Arduino chips were part of the AVR chip pack and were pretty much hidden away and hard to find. As we wanted to make a much bigger play for Arduino in v8 they are now in their own "ARD" chip pack.

On the flip side customers who are up to speed using AVR microcontrollers generally don't want to be hamstrung by the limitations laid out by Arduino.

Finally we may add none AVR based Arduino targets in the future and this means having a separate Arduino chip pack makes even more sense.

Hopefully this answers the question.