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20 years ago

How to program the EPCS4 when in production

In the debug phase, I used the flash programmer program the EPCS4(config + software). But which programming file should I give to my colleague who is in charge of production? I mean, can I give a sin...
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20 years ago

OK - thats one solution, but not the most confortable...

Thats the way i get my programming files for production:

I wrote a little bit of code which reads the content of the EPCS flash and dumps the data via serial port to the PC.

The output is formated like an intel hex file, so i can record the datastream to a file and pass this file to the production people...

So first I program the EPCS the usual way using the flashprogrammer of the IDE. Then i use the debugger of the IDE

to run the flash dump program and a serial terminal to write the data into a file. Thats it - not very professional, but it works...