On 7/21/06, Wouter van Ooijen <wouter@voti.nl> wrote:

> Note that I am not saying that such programmers don't have their place.
> If your time is cheap by all means try one or two, if they work, fine!
> But if they don't drop them, and try a design that has a much higher
> chance of working, but costs a little more. Adding a level booster to a
> dumb programmer combines the bad aspects of both: it is still a serial
> port pin wiggler with all the associated XP problems, but the complexity
> approaches a Wisp628 or other simple but intelligent programmer.
>

Very good summary.

Regards,
Xiaofan
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