You can use a toggle pin to measure the speed of the
programming. Stopwatch is not too accurate......
Blinky led can help you time the programming..

John

--- Tamas Rudnai <tamas.rudnai@gmail.com> wrote:

> I think programming can be measured by a stopwatch.
> But who has the time to
> measure all the chips (on which chip what programmer
> performs better). It
> might be an interesting project though to create a
> table on wiki for example
> and put experiences by contributors, like I have
> this and that programmer
> and measured the following times on those chips...
> The rows would be the
> chips while the columns the programmers.
> 
> Other interesting would be the reliability
> measurement (and I have no idea
> how to do that in a proper way). I suppose some
> programmer could leave out
> the verification completely for gain speed, however,
> that will be
> highlighted in the reliability table... some other
> production programmer
> verifies more than one times in different voltages
> as far as I know?
> 
> Tamas
> 
> 
> On 11/09/06, Wouter van Ooijen <wouter@voti.nl>
> wrote:
> >
> > > Also as Wouter pointed
> > > out to me real
> > > USB programmers are faster (that are not using
> USB to serial
> > > converter IC,
> > > but a real USB enabled microcontroller), and I
> hope I will
> > > not facing to any
> > > problems some people reported here.
> >
> > I think real USB proggers *can* be faster. At
> least the pickit1 is much
> > slower than a wisp628 + converter. I don't have
> good data available to
> > say more.
> >
> > Note that benchmarking proggers is as difficult as
> benchmarking CPUs and
> > other things. For instance, I recall that Olins
> proggers have build-in
> > primitives for most PICs they support, but use
> more slow pin-wiggling
> > commands for a few other chips. Wisp628 uses
> build-in primitives for all
> > chips it supports, but it supports less chips and
> these primitives are
> > slower than Olins, but faster than Olins
> pin-wiggling. So which one is
> > fastest? (I think the answer is: in most cases
> Olin's). As always, YMMV!
> >
> > Wouter van Ooijen
> >
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> >
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