>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.

As you already have Olins programmer, and he has made the code available, is 
there any reason not to modify the code to do programming of these chips? _ 
whoops, you have the Proprog, not the Easyprog.

On the other hand, I assume these will be on a PCB with a micro, so why not 
have a 'bootstrap' mode in the micro code that allows loading of the serial 
chip? 

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