[XCSSA] open-source hardware development tools

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Regardless of the relevance/appropriateness of the link and/or product, I 
find this post highly humorous :)

Nick

xcssa-admin@xcssa.org wrote:
> GMail's suggestion: http://www.intellimetrix.us/ellk.htm
> 
> On 2/15/07, * xcssa-admin@xcssa.org <mailto:xcssa-admin@xcssa.org>* 
> <xcssa-admin@xcssa.org <mailto:xcssa-admin@xcssa.org>> wrote:
> 
>     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
>     <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
>     <mailto:xcssa-admin@xcssa.org> wrote:
>      > On 2/10/07, xcssa-admin@xcssa.org <mailto:xcssa-admin@xcssa.org>
>     < xcssa-admin@xcssa.org <mailto: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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