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| - | Project goal: open source tools to drive BP programmers to enable more advanced R&D (ex: raster scan laser to find fuses) | ||
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| - | Secondary goal: explore options to make high quality legacy parallel port units (ex: BP-1600) usable on modern computers. | ||
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| - | ====== Parallel port ====== | ||
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| - | EOL notice: [[http:// | ||
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| - | LN: ftp:// | ||
| - | LN: is the last one which works with parport | ||
| - | LN: however i'm not sure that one runs on xp! | ||
| - | LN: that one does bitch at you that parport is EOLed | ||
| - | LN: 5270 is the last one which doesn' | ||
| - | LN: if that bothers you | ||
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| - | ===== VM operation ===== | ||
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| - | Card: StarTech Parallel Card - SPP/EPP/ECP EC1PECPS | ||
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| - | Without any programmer you get this: | ||
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| - | Since there is no programmer attached to any LPT or USB port, the software will operate in the demo mode. | ||
| - | If you are trying to use a programmer, make sure it is powered up and plugged into a parallel printer port (LPT models) or a USB 2.0 port (USB models). | ||
| - | Use the File/ | ||
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| - | Tried to use PCI express parallel port with VMWare. | ||
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| - | VM performance very poor even before launching BP software. | ||
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| - | Hooked up EC1PECPS to native Windows XP t61 system and wokred fine. | ||
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| - | ====== JM inventory ====== | ||
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| - | Programmers | ||
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| - | * BP-1410 (in the mail) | ||
| - | * BP-1600 | ||
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| - | Socket modules | ||
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| - | * SM48D (DIP) | ||
| - | * And one more coming with the BP-1410 I think | ||
| - | * SM-84UP | ||
| - | * SM32TC | ||
| - | * Custom BGA module | ||
| - | * SM44QC | ||
| - | * SM100TQ | ||
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| - | ====== User's Guide / The Engineer' | ||
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| - | {{: | ||
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| - | Dying to read it? Well you probably don't want to: | ||
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| - | LN: its not super exciting, documents some bpdos stuff and basic setup | ||
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| - | But feel free to throw out a line if you *really* want it scanned for some bizarre reason | ||