Olin Lathrop wrote:
>
> > I know that lots of guys have written their own boot loaders. Could
> > you guys tell me the relative speeds of your BootLoaders so that I
> > have a reference to measure my BootLoader's performance.
>
> I just measured one of mine.  It took 37 seconds to upload complete new
> firmware execept the uploader itself on a 16F877 running at 20MHz using
> 115.2Kbaud.  However, the baud rate isn't an issue because the time is
> dominated by the program memory writes.  All the data could have been
> transferred in under 3 seconds if the writes were infinitely fast.

I'm just implementing a verify feature for ROMzap, as I have time, and
it reads a 16F877 in about 45 seconds at 19200 baud.

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