Another programmer

Submitted by poit on November 26, 2005 - 19:15.
The MCU programmer I had didn't want to work on one variety of chips I had (kind of annoying to have two 40pin chips laying around that you can't use) so, I made a programmer based on a 74244 bufer/driver chip and the PonyProg software (schematic and software available HERE. One nice thing about the PonyProg software is that even though it encounters errors when I try the Atmel Mega8515 microcontroller that I have (one that's not supported, btw) the important point is that it STILL PROGRAMS IT (told it that it was a Mega8). Erasing also gives an error...as if it didn't work, but reading the code from the chip shows that it has been erased. So, as long as I don't need to set the fuse bits, everything should work great. Haven't checked to see if maybe there are some simple changes to some sort of INI file that could make it program those chips properly...but either way...as I said, it works.
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