usb 24LCxx serial eeprom programmer

[badrad]

hi all,
i have been searching for a usb or serial 24LCXX eeprom programmer. any ideas or suggestions?

thanks

badrad

[mister_e]

hi,
the only one i know is PonyProg wich is suppose to work well as i heard a lot of time. There you go

http://www.lancos.com/prog.html

you can also program few PIC with it too

regards

[mister_e]

or for an USB version
http://www.xeltek.com/product/programmer/sp280u.html

but much expensive. Depending your needs.

[badrad]

wow, that xeltek unit looks nice but at $549 usd, way more than i can afford right now.

i have a couple of programmers right now that i am using - the EPICplus programmer for the PICs, and a homebuilt EASY/IO programmer using the PonyProgrammer SW. both are parallel interface and both have worked quite well for my needs. the problem is that my desktop is dying, and i am looking to trade up to an ultralight notebook. the problem now stems with the notebook search in that parallel printer ports now rarely exist in any respectable notebook.
which is prompting my search for another set of tools - usb. i would prefer not to add a notebook port expander for the parallel, since some of these don't work all the well and the cost is quite high.

i bought the melabs serial programmer (but have not had chance to use it as yet), but was wondering has anyone tried building the JDM programmer and tried it with the EEPROM interface?

thanks again for your recommendations so far!

[mister_e]

Well if you can do or find a program to send data or eeprom dump to USB port, it will be easy to do your own device programmer. Easier to do if your notepad have an Serial COM port. Some HEX editor to edit your eeprom dump can be found for free on the net too.

regards

[mister_e]

i don't know if you finnaly solve your programmer problem, but i've heard few time about those USB to serial adapter. i just buy one, and it works fine. I use it on my new laptop on the road.

For sure you can it in some local dealer. but have a look on the melabs website
http://www.melabs.com/products/accessry.htm

hope this will help you

[mister_e]

one of my friend just talk me about this one.
http://www.electronickits.com/kit/co...rog/ck1708.htm

it's a kit that you build yourself. But as i heard, it's quite well explain and it's working well too. But if you have already a bunch of programmer maybe USB to Serial adapter must be considered for about the same price without any assembly process.

I assume that is for PIC and your request was for EEPROM but it's really easy to create your own now. Send EEPROM dump file to PIC and then from PIC to EEPROM. Few lines of code now

anyway, these are my solution. Hope these help you

[badrad]

i built up the JDM serial programmer, with the EEPROM attachment, but never got it working. I bought a generic USB-RS232 convertor, but was unable to get the combination working (along with unknowns as to the stability of my workstation hardware). so i shelved the project (for the time being - way too much production work to fiddle with this).

seems like compaq and toshiba are some of the few notebook makers that still provide parallel ports in some of their configurations. so, that's what i got... the only problem is lugging an 8 pound anchor around town isn't my idea of fun, but is a good workout.

at least there aren't any new variables to deal with, i just take my setup from the workstation and on the road as needed.

[toto_lebolo]

There is a usb serial flash programmers here not sure if this is what you are looking for:
http://siliconkit.dnsalias.com/cart/spi.html

Also I have seen the xeltek programmers mentioned. I use the superpro 3000U.
But it is a little more expensive. See here: http://siliconkit.dnsalias.com/cart/3000u.html

[mister_e]

PICKIT 2 also do serial EEPROM now...
http://www.microchip.com/stellent/id...cName=en027813

[falingtrea]

Heh, somewhere in my projects folder I have PicBASIC code that runs on a MElabs LAB-X1 board that would read and write to i2c eeproms. I even wrote an xmodem transfer protocol so I could just transfer hex data serially between a PC running a terminal program and the LAB-X1. If I can dig it up, maybe I will post it here, if there is any interest.