There is always some advantage for production line to have a fixture which can:
1. Accurately mate the board, pads location with the pogo pins.
2. A mechanical structure provides fast contact "lock/unlock" feature when pogo pins are contact with boards. Something like flip a control bar back and forth can "lock/unlock" the contacts.
3. High endurance to load and unload the circuit board for programming and testing.

Most likely, those programming fixtures are custom designed/made for high volume manufacturing.

 Funny N.
Au Group Electronics, http://www.AuElectronics.com
http://www.AuElectronics.com/products
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From: Tamas Rudnai <tamas.rudnai@gmail.com>
To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public. <piclist@mit.edu>
Sent: Tue, November 24, 2009 11:59:33 AM
Subject: Re: [PIC]: Microchip new Tag-Connect for ICD2/3/REAL ICE

On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Funny NYPD <funnynypd@yahoo.com> wrote:
> One more link from our blog:
> http://augroups.blogspot.com/2009/01/cbl-0703-pogo.html

I was just thinking if you see any advantage of not using positioning pins?
In Microchip's solution the position pins also makes the connector
polarized which I think is useful sometimes.

Thanks,
Tamas


>
>  Funny N.
> Au Group Electronics, http://www.AuElectronics.com
> http://www.AuElectronics.com/products
> http://augroups.blogspot.com/
>
>
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> ________________________________
> From: Funny NYPD <funnynypd@yahoo.com>
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public. <piclist@mit.edu>
> Sent: Tue, November 24, 2009 11:33:15 AM
> Subject: Re: [PIC]: Microchip new Tag-Connect for ICD2/3/REAL ICE
>
>
> A few URLs are listed below:
>
> Product info at our online store:
> 1. CBL-0703-POGO: RJ12 6-wire Pogo pin Cable
> http://www.auelectronics.com/products/cbl-0703-pogo.html
>
> 2.  CBL-RJ12-POGO: Flexible RJ12 Cable with 6-pin POGO Connector
> http://www.auelectronics.com/products/cbl-rj12-pogo.html
>
> 3. CON-6PIN-POGO: 6 Pin Pogo Connector
> http://www.auelectronics.com/products/con-6pin-pogo.html
>
> More info on our forum:
> http://www.auelectronics.com/forum/index.php/topic,42.0.html
>
>  Funny N.
> Au Group Electronics, http://www.AuElectronics.com
> http://www.AuElectronics.com/products
> http://augroups.blogspot.com/
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> ________________________________
> From: WH Tan <whsiung.my@gmail.com>
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public. <piclist@mit.edu>
> Sent: Tue, November 24, 2009 9:00:13 AM
> Subject: Re: [PIC]: Microchip new Tag-Connect for ICD2/3/REAL ICE
>
> 2009/11/24 Alan B. Pearce wrote:
>
>> When I first saw these I thought they were the cable that Funny-NYPD, one of
>> the list members, designed.
>
> Interesting!
> Is there an URL for that cable?  Just want to have a look...
>
> Thanks.
>
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