program flash memory

Hi Anuar,

I'm preparing to do the same basic thing myself. It appears the only way to do this (assuming your flash is surface mounted to your target and not programmable with one of the many prom programmers that will do the job) is to program your target in 2 seperate steps. First step is to write a small application which will receive your actual program code on the C166's serial port and then write your prgm code to the flash as it is received.This small program could be loaded using the Keil uVision2 monitor app and the bootstrap mode of the C166 (this small loader program will run out of ram). The next step is to write an application for the PC to communicate with this small loader app that is running on your target and send it your program code using the PC's serial port. It seems a lot of work just to program onboard flash but if anybody has any better suggestions I'd also love to hear them. ~Tim

Hi Anuar,

I'm preparing to do the same basic thing myself. It appears the only way to do this (assuming your flash is surface mounted to your target and not programmable with one of the many prom programmers that will do the job) is to program your target in 2 seperate steps. First step is to write a small application which will receive your actual program code on the C166's serial port and then write your prgm code to the flash as it is received.This small program could be loaded using the Keil uVision2 monitor app and the bootstrap mode of the C166 (this small loader program will run out of ram). The next step is to write an application for the PC to communicate with this small loader app that is running on your target and send it your program code using the PC's serial port. It seems a lot of work just to program onboard flash but if anybody has any better suggestions I'd also love to hear them. ~Tim