On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Forrest Christian <forrestc@imach.com> 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?
>
First idea, bug Olin to support the EEPROM you are using
for PROPROG. That is certainaly doable.

Second idea, buy the US$35 PICkit 2 to do the job. It is
not really production quality but should be able to be fine
for low quantity.

I think PM3 should do the job and it kind of production quality.

Xiaofan
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