Batronix BX48 - Universal Programmer

[olsenn]

Does anybody have any experience using the BX48-I or BX48-II Universal Programmer? It apparently supports over 50,000 IC's, but I already have programmers for PIC (PICKit 2) and Atmel (AVR Dragon, and AVR ONE!), and I'm not sure how common the other IC's are. I mostly program with AVR, but their usefulness is quickly becomming inadequate for the projects I'd like to work on. My fear with purchasing the programmer mentioned above is that it won't support newer devices (ARM, TI Wolverine/Blackfin, FPGA's...). I notice it doesn't support Xilinx and Altera FPGA's which I find particularly annoying since I use those frequently and they are quite popular so I see no reason why they aren't supported (can it not handle JTAG?)

Anyways, if anybody has any information on them, or another universal programmer that's better or cheaper, please let me know. For those who don't know what I'm talking about, here is a link to the product page:http://www.batronix.com/shop/programmer/BX48/index.html

[aghp]

Old thread but I have same question:
Anybody have experience with Batronix BX48 Batego II?
Quality of HW, Quality of softwares etc.
What other name and model is same or better in this price class?
Specially now I need make some copy of old UV-Eproms, NVRAMs  and of course then some more new chips sometimes.
In specs this Batronix seems quite good in its price class and just more reliable and professional than some cheap chinese...

I'm happy about all experience about this Batronix model or some other name equivalents in same price class.

[tulipman]

Hi there,

Didn't see any reply on the Batronix question, but I am using Batronix programmers DAILY, and they are incredible innovative and versatile. Software is great, AND: the support from this German company is absolutely GREAT.

I had an EPROM that was NOT in the database, and in 1 hour or so, they ADDED it to the database, and I was able to read-out that special EPROM. Mention one company that does this for their customers!!
The Batronix BX48 can also detect defective pins and resistance, so a real hardware check of any eprom.

It programs PLD, SPLD, EPLD, GAL, PALCE, and also microcontrollers.

Even for tuning car-engines that are controlled by EPROM based firmware, there is an incredible add-on file that enables you to finetune a car-engine. Really amazing device.

If people are interested in a BATEGO BX48, I have a couple of them, and I am willing to sell one of them for peeps that are really interested, of course for a very interesting price.....

Let me know.

Rgds

tulipman / PA3BKL

[haiderwa]

Do you still have the Batronix BX48 - Universal Programmer for sale?