Open Flash/EEPROM/EPROM Writers?

Posted by Cliff on Thursday April 4, 2002 @12:35AM from the hardware-for-programming-hardware dept.

Karim Yaghmour asks: "Flash/EEPROM programmers tend to be expensive (especially if you want support for many devices). I am trying to find a Flash/EEPROM programmer for which the schematics and software are available in Open Source form on the web. The projects I have found are rather basic and do not provide support for a wide range of memory devices. Does anyone have any recommendations? Is anyone working on such an Open Source project? Something like the Bitscope project (an 'Open Source' Oscilloscope) mentioned earlier on Slashdot, but for device programmers. If not, is anyone interested in starting such a project?"

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Interested... by secrettricks · 2002-04-04 07:19 · Score: 4, Interesting

I've done some work for a small company that sells an inexpensive Serial PROM Programmer that supports Xilinx Serial PROM devices. I'm mostly involved in maintaining the software (adding new parts, file formats, GUI, little bit of driver work). I have only a limited experience with the core software or the hardware design, but I am interested in your proposal. Xilinx will soon phase out the families that the hardware supports, so perhaps this company may shift their focus to developing a Flash/EEPROM programmer. Independently, I'm currently working on a project for graphically editing bit wave patterns and saving them as either mcs or exo files. What sort of experience do you have in Flash/EEPROM programmers?