At 13:25 30/03/2004, Antony Stone wrote:
On Tuesday 30 March 2004 1:09 pm, Vic Berdin wrote:
Hi,
This maybe the wrong list to post this but since you guys are into the field of creating your own BIOSware, I would like to ask if anyone knows of a device or equipment (connected via stadard PC port) that may be used in order to write data into a BIOS chip?
BIOS chips are standard flash parts - a commercial flash programmer will do the job (but don't expect such a machine to be cheap).
We use a Batronix USB programmer:
http://progshop.com/shop/programmer/usb-chip-programmer/index.shtml
List price is 289 USD (plus you'll need a PLCC adapter) which is quite a bit cheaper than a lot of the others on the market, and it will program a huge variety of different chips. It's pretty fast too (much faster than any serial/parallel port programmer)
Cheers
Ian