Quote Originally Posted by swr999 View Post
Thanks. This would be fine for one or a few instances. In my case a PCB assembler will be gang-programming many chips. Plus, once out in the field I would like the program to not run at all if, whenever it powers up, the code validation fails. Any suggestions for a similar 8-pin chip which does allow to read out of program memory? Or some other way to do code validation?

Thanks!
If you are programming the chips at the factory in Thailand, they use CRC error checking. If you are using somebody else, do you mind me asking how are they "gang-programming" the chips? There have been a few people asking in this forum how to "gang-program" many chips, but I don't think that they never got a satisfying answer.

Robert