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looking for good stand-alone production programmer

looking for good stand-alone production programmer

looking for good stand-alone production programmer

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Does anyone know of a good universal programmer that is capable of writing to UCs like the Zilog Z8?  

I need something that meets the following criteria:  
1. Stand-alone programmer - works without a computer.
2. Can handle in-system programming of a die mounted on a PCB.
3. Very durable, or disposable, for use in an industrial/production environment.  

I am also looking for something that is more universal to handle other processors (Cypress, Renesas, Atmel, etc.) as the product lines evolve.  I have looked at the Zilog third party website links, but don't seem to see much in the way of durable, affordable, in-system capability.  My other option is to try and develop my own, but I am afraid that is a bigger project than I want to consider.  Any ideas?  

RE: looking for good stand-alone production programmer

The microcontrollers rarely have a similar programming interface between brands.  The Zilog uses only one pin to do everything from programming to in-circuit monitoring. Others have have a Jtag interface.  What I suggest is that you define a box that is made of an industrial computer that will include the CPU card, the programming pod and a software set.  There are pre-boxed industrial computer sets that even have an LCD screen.  General Digital makes such boxes.  The software can run from a solid-state IDE disk  Document it as a unit, have security backups, and buy a couple of pods.  They're usually cheap.

Data I/O used to have high volume programming machines.  I don't know how do they fare with in-circuit programming.  If you have such machines in production, the manufacturers of in-circuit testers (HP, Teradyne), or manufacturing defects analysers may offer programming algorithms to combine the prorgamming of these devices along with the test of the boards.

RE: looking for good stand-alone production programmer

Use a programming house to do it for you. Some chip makers can supply parts allready programmed.

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