I hope I get away with this. Havent found any scenix lists or
forums. I'm thinking about trying them. I've searched thouroughly for
published programmer circuits and software. Most of them are
undesirable. For example, some of them require you to have a
funtional scenix programmer in order to program a part to build the
programmer. Some of them seem like they were abandoned a year
ago.
Scenix came out with a programmer very recently, and I'm curious
if anyone has tried it? It seems to be intended for use to upgrade
firmware in the field. It has a pushbutton to enable the programmer
and looks like it was intended to be included in the user's end
product. The software prompts to push the button,etc. I'm thinking
we could do away with the pushbutton and use the design as a
development programmer. It doesnt use any processors, just
transistors and a couple of logic chips.
BTW, if you are looking for this stuff, you cant really get it directly
by following the links to their website. All you can get is the
software, which does install ok. I found the following direct links
and downloaded the stuff. There is a schematic, and a manual, and
there is the software, but the latter is just a zip file with the exe and
a bunch of dlls, no installer. I dont know if its the same as the one
that is easy to find on the website
.
http://www.scenix.com/virtual/download/sxisp_schematic.pdf
http://www.scenix.com/virtual/download/SxIspUI.zip
http://www.scenix.com/virtual/download/an24_sxisp.pdf

Anyway, if anyone has any info (good or bad), please let me know!
Thanks
Don