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Offline Hella_Wini22Topic starter

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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) ? 🙄

« Last Edit: September 07, 2024, 05:08:13 pm by Hella_Wini22 »
 

Offline edavid

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Re: universal chip programmers with LInux support - how about Batronix ?
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2024, 06:07:26 pm »
  * It can do oldest chips with 25V Vpp and newest FLASH that works at just 1.0V

I notice that it doesn't support 2708 or MCM68764, which are about the only 25V devices I'd like to program.
 
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Offline Hella_Wini22Topic starter

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Re: universal chip programmers with LInux support - how about Batronix ?
« Reply #2 on: September 07, 2024, 06:36:20 pm »
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.
 

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Re: universal chip programmers with LInux support - how about Batronix ?
« Reply #3 on: September 07, 2024, 07:01:05 pm »
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.
 
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Re: universal chip programmers with LInux support - how about Batronix ?
« Reply #4 on: September 09, 2024, 03:29:49 pm »
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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Re: universal chip programmers with LInux support - how about Batronix ?
« Reply #5 on: September 09, 2024, 03:44:15 pm »
outside linux     you have  big brands

Elnec   Xeltec ...   some of them do accept consumer requests
Tnm 7000, RT809H

i think the tl866a or tl866cs   had some linux love ??
 


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