I'm looking for a free AND fast flash-tool for flashing a board with C167 and AMD29040F over serial port. By now I'm using Bootload/Win .. but at 57,8kBaud it takes about 12 minutes or flashing a 220k H86-File (approx. 100k binary). Is this normal time? Thanks for any tips! Torsten
In a search for large (2 Mbyte) flashes I found that most such flashes (including AMD) take up to 30 seconds to erase thus a programming time of 35 seconds does not surprise me (actually I find it optimistic). However, SST evidently use another technology and have 2 Mbyte offerings with max chip erase times of 50ms. I found no other "fast erase" supplier and, if anyone know a second source for such chips, please post. Erik
Thanks for the lot of answers so far. Have you seen this? http://www.keil.com/flash/utilities.asp yes, i have. but i don't need: - programmers - on-chip-flashers i need: - a fast (cheap/free) flash-tool that works with c167-bootstrap-mode over the RS232 Maybe "Flashit" would be the right thing, but because of the 1k-limit I couldn't make a estimate how long downloading of a 220k h86-file would take with this tool. If it takes less than one minute, I would buy it. Does anybody any experience with this programm? thus a programming time of 35 seconds does not surprise me (actually I find it optimistic) This would be nice. As I said, by now BTLD/WIN needs 12 minutes for 220k-H86 (100k BIN) at 57,8kBaud
If you have a bit of time, take a look at the Infineon Memtool: it is not too difficult to write a new driver to support your flash memory. The procedure is not documented, but, if you take a look at existing drivers, you will easily understand what to do; we wrote the 29F800 driver in just a couple of days and we use Memtool even in automated test programs, thanks to its well documented open interface. It is free and it is very well designed. It already contains "Generic Drivers" for systems based on C16x and 29F010, 29F200 and 29F400 flash memories; starting from one of those targets (by doing a bit of reverse engineering) you will easily implement the target you need. Bruno
It is still available, you can download it from this page. http://www.infineon.com/cgi/ecrm.dll/ecrm/scripts/promotion_downloads.jsp?oid=53087 Bruno
Do you know any web-sources, where I can get memtool? It seems it isn't available on infineon.com anymore.
Thanks a lot, Bruno! Why doesn't a search on "memtool" on infineon's website bring up any result?