Email: Password: Remember Me | Create Account (Free)

Back to Subject List

Old thread has been locked -- no new posts accepted in this thread
???
06/05/04 22:38
Read: times


 
Msg Score: +1
 +1 Informative
#71864 - An example using a 2nd MCU
Responding to: ???'s previous message
Atmel Application Note "AT89C51 In-Circuit Programming" describes a system that does In-Application Programming by having a second microcontroller acting effectively as an embedded device programmer:
http://www.atmel.com/dyn/resou...OC0287.PDF

Having a dedicated "programmer" MCU gets over many (possibly all?) of the problems I mentioned - and it could be quite an economical solution, as just a small, cheap MCU would probably be sufficient as the programmer...

List of 16 messages in thread
TopicAuthorDate
Smart program            01/01/70 00:00      
   yes            01/01/70 00:00      
   RE: Smart program            01/01/70 00:00      
   RE: Smart program            01/01/70 00:00      
      RE: Smart program            01/01/70 00:00      
   In-Application Programming            01/01/70 00:00      
      An example using a 2nd MCU            01/01/70 00:00      
      RE: In-Application Programming            01/01/70 00:00      
   RE: Smart program            01/01/70 00:00      
      RE: MCU decides it needs another program            01/01/70 00:00      
   RE: Smart program            01/01/70 00:00      
   RE: Smart program            01/01/70 00:00      
      RE: Smart program            01/01/70 00:00      
      RE: So it *is* remote code banking!            01/01/70 00:00      
      Downloading a Hex file ?            01/01/70 00:00      
      RE: not so Smart program            01/01/70 00:00      

Back to Subject List