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| Hella_Wini22:
I've seen people talking about Batronix new scope series Magnova line ( sleek design, great display, 12-bit ADC, up to 350 MHz bandwidth, German quality etc). But I've noticed that they have their own lines of chip programmers, too. * [ Batronix Batego II ](https://www.batronix.com/shop/programmer/BX48/batego-II.html) Even though nowadays most of the things are programmed ISP, but still one ocassionaly needs to program a chip or three in the old fashion way. Until now, I figured that If I really need a new programmer, I'd have to cobble up something of my own and then gradually expand its capabilities, since nothing that I knew of could quite fulfill all of my needs, at least not in the lowest price or economy segment. But this thing looks darn close. * It can do oldest chips with 25V Vpp and newest FLASH that works at just 1.0V * has plentiful list of supported devices. * supports some ISP protocols * has a SW version for various Linux distros. Even for Gentoo. WTF ? * They developed their own pin-driver ASIC to cover all of the voltage span This is also a weak point - that's one part that can't be easily replaced on failure. 🙄 * SW allegedly supports chip volume production & cluster programming Price is a bit steep for my taste(€660), but if it works as advertised, it seems to be awesome Swiss army knife, especially WRT its capabilities. So, my question is - has anyone here bought it and has experience to share ? How well does it run with Linux, especially with rolling distros like Gentoo, Ark etc ? Also, does anyone know of better/superior alternative ? Maybe Batronix is just trying to catch or copy some new player (unlikely, but I have to ask) ? 🙄 |
| edavid:
--- Quote from: Hella_Wini22 on September 07, 2024, 05:05:08 pm --- * It can do oldest chips with 25V Vpp and newest FLASH that works at just 1.0V --- End quote --- I notice that it doesn't support 2708 or MCM68764, which are about the only 25V devices I'd like to program. |
| Hella_Wini22:
As stated on their page: "Chip updates on customer request Free via software updates" So obviously no one requested it yet. Or so it would seem. |
| madires:
I have one for many years and it works fine under Debian. The software is based on Mono. However, I had to install some additional Mono packages manually. |
| Squarewave:
I was looking at one of the 32 pin Batronix, noted the 32 pin programmers are read only for the D2716, wonder why that is? |
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