RE: EPROM Programer Advice Needed

On Mon, 3 May 1999 jwelser@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu wrote:
> On Mon, 3 May 1999, Clay Cowgill wrote:
> > >
> > I'm really fond of my "EMUP" (JDR Microdevices/MCT). Does PALs, GALs,
> > EEPROMs, EPROMs, Flash, tests TTL and CMOS logic, test SRAMs, etc. The
> > software, alas, kinda sucks. It's also DOS based.
>
> I have the same programmer, and I love the chip testing features
> of the programmer. Has anybody ever figured out how to write test vectors
> of other chip types? It was kind of annoying when I wanted to test a chip
> and it wasn't supported.
>
> I figure that stuff is in some .dat file, rather than in the
> source itself, but I might be wrong. The RAMs supported are only a subset
> of what it can support, as well...

I enjoy my EE Tools' Allmax - burns PAL/GAL/EEPROM/Flash, and has a subset
of TTL/CMOS test vectors. I believe you can also create your own test
vectors with the software.

Software is DOS-based, but runs fine in Windoze - as long as you're
careful to be sure that the DOS window is the active window and you're
not running anything too CPU-intensive in the background.

Allmax device libraries are in separate .dat files - sadly, no specs for
these files are available, so it's impossible to add support for different
devices. My main gripe -- it burns bipolar PROMs by most manufacturers,
but won't do TI's PROMs (e.g. 18S030, 24S10, etc). So I just have to be
careful about which manufacturer's PROMs I use. (Since it'll do TI's
PALs, I know it's *capable* of burning their PROMs, but I'd have to
reverse-engineer the Allmax data files in order to do it...)

Info at http://www.eetools.com including lists of supported devices.

Later,
Doug.

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