I believe building your EEProm programmer is more benificial since it is not that hard to do plus you can customize to each EEProm chip out there. John --- Gerhard Fiedler wrote: > J D wrote: > > > My question is what do other people use to program > the EEPROM with when you > > have to load several thousand hex numbers in order > to use a device? > > You can use a universal programmer (or any other > programmer that does > EEPROMs of the type you want to use), you can make > your own quick PIC > firmware that programs the EEPROM from data that > comes through the serial > port, or you can include that functionality into > your project (easy if it > has a serial port or USB etc already). > > Gerhard > > -- > http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive > View/change your membership options at > http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist