Re: universal programmer


"Donald" <donald@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Abstract Dissonance wrote:
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> AD
>
> AD,
>
> Is your goal to "build a programmer" or to "program chips".
>

Ultimately to program chips. But I don't want it to become a hassle where I
end up having to buy a new programmer every time I switch chips. Since I'm
new to the hardware side of chips I might end up going threw many types of
chips pretty quickly. I wouldn't want to order a new chip then learn that I
can't program it with a 200$(or more) programmer I brought.

> As Joel says, buy the cheapest tools for the target processor and start
> learning that one.
>

Yeah, but I have no target processor. I have no exerience with different
types of chips and the only experience I have had with hardware like this
was once a friend was taking a DSP course and asked me to help him
program... It was really easy to do stuff so I figure that its probably not
all that hard to do... but seeing that there are thousands of different
chips out there makes it kinda hard to know where to start... If I just pick
some chip and get its specific programmer and spend 50$+ then maybe a week
later I'll move on to another chip for some specific application and have to
spend 50$... then that might continue for several weeks.

I just feel that building a programmer might be just as fun though and
actually be pretty usefull.

> If you don't like that one, buy the cheapest tool for your next choice.
>
>
> Ect....
> donald

AD


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