Product category: Design and Development Software
News Release from: GD Technik | Subject: Atmel FLIP
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 3 March 2004
Easy route to MCU in-system programming
Atmel's PC-based FLIP software tool is specifically designed to improve the flexibility, power and user-friendliness of in-system programming for the company's C51 Flash microcontrollers
Now available from GD Technik is the second generation of Atmel's PC-based Flexible In-system Programmer (FLIP) software tool which is specifically designed to improve the flexibility, power and user-friendliness of Atmel C51 Flash microcontrollers in-system programming (ISP). FLIP implementation is designed to be very user friendly.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 3 March 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Running on both Windows 9x/Me/NT/2000/XP and Linux platforms it supports the ISP of Atmel C51s through a range of popular communications interfaces including RS232, USB and CAN.
No additional hardware is required and programming 32Kbyte takes only a few seconds.
By executing the Atmel on-chip bootloader, the user can update the code or data in the Flash and EEPROM in-application.
This self-programming capability not only allows last minute changes to be made during the development process but also, in the case of volume applications, programming on the production line which in turn avoids redundant inventory and allows field upgrades and remote diagnosis in after sales service.
FLIP comes with a powerful set of DLLs which allows users to call Atmel ISP high-level functions from their own PC applications, without having to know the details of the Atmel ISP protocols.
An example program is included which demonstrates this capability.
FLIP supports a wide range of C51 Flash microcontrollers with on-chip program memory capacity up to 64Kbyte and an extensive set of peripherals that includes ADCs, timers, watchdog and PCA.
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