Bob Paddock wrote:
3. The possibility to embed serial numbers into flash/eeprom.
How would you like that to work?
I know there are about a gazillion different ways of making serial
numbers, but what we have is a two-octet (uint16_t) number at a
predefined location in the eeprom.
So, there should be a box into which the serial number is fed, and then
the eeprom content is changed accordingly before programming the chip.
If I look at other programming software, the things that seem to be
there most often are:
- format of the number:
- binary 2 octets
- binary 4 octets
- ASCII at some length with or without null-termination
- location of the number
- either flash or eeprom
- position
Then--depending on which way the production runs--some users might wish
for an auto-incrementing function. The counter should advance by one
after each successful programming. (In our production we glue some
stickers onto the PCBs before they are programmed, and the serial
numbers are given according to these stickers, and thus we do not need
the auto-increment.)
I really cannot imagine all possible needs, but I think that if the
following options are available, almost everybody should be relatively
happy:
- starting position and memory
- 2-octet binary, 4-octet binary, arbitrary length ASCII (padded with
NULLs to the given length)
- auto-increment
I do not think this would be very difficult GUI-wise, just a single text
box for the S/N, and then rest of the settings in the menu.
Best regards,
- Ville
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