On Mon, 12 May 2008 04:20:25 -0600, you wrote:

>I'm going to be starting to use some of the small 8 pin Serial SPI 
>EEPROM memories and would like to come up with a production-quality 
>programmer for them.  On the PIC side, I'm using Olin's ProProg and it's 
>working out well, and we like the way it works...  Insert chip, hit 
>button, wait until LED comes back on steady, remove chip and repeat.  No 
>need to have the computer on the same desk as the programmer (we have a 
>table which parallels the desk with the computer on which we use for 
>things which need the computer in a support role such as the ProProg).  
>We just start the software and then it's just us, the chips, and the 
>programmer.
>
>So far, I haven't found anything both reasonably priced and seemingly 
>production capable.   I'm about ready to build my own (after all it is 
>only SPI flash), but would prefer to do something a little less 
>drastic.  So before I did I figured I'd ask on-list.
>
>Ideas?

Are the chips going on a board with a PIC on it? If so, why not let the PIC program it as part of
the factory test procedure?



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