Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words
> >>>My last 'smart' move in this area was to but a Picstart plus for
> >>>pics, only to have Microchip gut the design and now there's a new
> >>>circuit board needed :-(.
> That one is good for prototypes but not qualified for production
> (programming done at nominal vcc and verify, too. (According to
> microchip it should be done at vcc min. and max.. So we finally bought
> the ICE2000 kit (name maybe spelled wrong, havn't dealt with it for
> quite a long time and also have the picstart plus here at home))).
Yeah, but I'm not a factory - I don't have the employees or the work
rate :).
>
> >>>This time I'm asking first. I would like a nice effective CHEAP
> >>>Atmel programmer. The exact part I need to program is 89S52
> >>>Suggestions?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> You can buy one yourself very easy. (costs about 5US$ - compare to the
> picstart kit :) I should have some Protel-files somewhere here from
> the time of my studying at university. Unfortuneately this one
> connects to the parallel port and not all notebooks have one now a
> days. Atmel sells the STK500 board but I think theres no need to have
> that. Should be around 70 US$/95€. The Atmels can be programmed
> while in circuit without any problems. Just the 3 programming lines,
> reset and vcc need to be connected to the programmer. I used
> ponyprog2000 for that (should be the lancos site).
Ponyprog seems the way to go. It's a good compliment to my horribly
outdated pb10 eprom burner which is low on cost, and performance, and
resides in an ISA slot, which means having an old box lying around.
The old PB10 does parallel, the Ponyprog serial. Thanks everyone.
/mind wanders
My next project here may well be a networked PC museum - floppies,
serial & parallel ports & ISA cards all on available to the boxes I use.
Mind you I have to finish the repair on my test equipment. (List Topic
was "Fast Pulse Trap). The latest is that after eventually cajoling some
new pals from the <expletives deleted> at Diagnosys the thing wouldn't
boot.At least one of the four pals they sent me was dud, and at least
one of the original pals is also. I swapped until I had a set that
allowed it to boot, and then it failed selftest :-(.
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With best Regards,
Declan Moriarty.
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