[XCSSA] open-source hardware development tools

[xcssa@xcssa.org]

I'm looking right now at a project from Nuts and Volts for a serial programmer 
for Atmel microcontrollers.  But I've used serial console based EEPROM 
programmers also... and this is truly the "way to go" for firmware dev work.  
Since it's pure RS-232 based (or maybe USBTTY based) it's 100% cross platform 
compat.
	http://www.nutsvolts.com/toc_Pages/images/0702/48.jpg
but that's for very specific microcontrollers.. not EPROMs

Here's the one the one that I used to use back in the 80's to burn C=64 
cartridge games:
	http://www.dataman.com/WebPages/ProductView.aspx?pid=2
	(except mine was RS-232 based.. now they're USB based)
But $600?  Ouch...

Here are some other nice commercial units:
	http://www.xeltek.com/pages.php?pageid=5
Pricey indeed...
	
But here's a newer, low cost USB based EPROM programmer "kit" that you can get  
for like $30:
	http://www.alltronics.com/cgi-bin/item/KIT_149/search/USB-PIC-Programmer
	(unclear if the Windows software is required to use it in Serial/USB modes)

Let me know what you end up finding out or using... I need one too.

Tweeks
p.s. Craig... saw this in this month's Nuts'n'Volts.. Thought of you:
http://www.nutsvolts.com/toc_Pages/images/0702/75.jpg

On Wednesday 14 February 2007 18:59, xcssa-admin@xcssa.org wrote:
> On 2/10/07, xcssa-admin@xcssa.org <xcssa-admin@xcssa.org> wrote:
> > Hey folks,
> >
> > I've had the goal of buying an FPGA and development environment for a
> > while, and I've had occasion to wish I had a EEPROM programmer, but I
> > don't have any Microsoft products to run the software on.  Does anyone
> > have any recommendations on hardware development tools that are fully
> > open-source?
>
> A recent linux mag (Read a lot of them, so I think it was a January 2007,
> forgetting the name as it is at home) had something like a PICO E12
> detailed for a Linux 2.6 kernel port to it.  He detailed some of the Driver
> issues and such related to running/porting/using Linux 2.6 on such a
> platform.
>
> http://www.picocomputing.com/
>
>
> HTH,
> John


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