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) ? 🙄