SPI

It's good meeting you. I'll let you know how it goes.
john

It's good meeting you. I'll let you know how it goes.
john

"It's good meeting you."

Likewise.

"I'll let you know how it goes."

Yes, please do.

Installed winburn - looks good so far but I dont see mention of the db9 to spi connection yet.

Perhaps we're supposed to read between the lines and infer that WinBurn does not directly program, but instead talks to the MCU for it to perform the programming on behalf of WinBurn. That would be a pity.

Either way it appears to be a dead end for me. He wants $995 for the schematic. Hell, thats more than I'm planning on spending on putting this thing into prototype production.
Was gonna post this at the 8052.com but Ill run it up here:

Here's my problem:
I'm designing the hardware that allows program hex code to be loaded to an external eeprom
(25230 type) that is used in conjunction with a Nordic nRF9E5 chip. The nRF9E5 contains an
8051 type mpu and requires it's program code to reside in the external eeprom.
The eeprom uses the SPI bus.
I want to use a windows based pc serial port. Actuall the usb but a 232 to usb translator
chip and virtual comm port. But that part is understood.
So, since there is no standard for this type of thing, just which db9 pins connect to sck, mosi, miso
is determined by the software that loads the hex.
So far Ive only found a nice windows app that costs $995 USD. Out of the question.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
One other thing. Has anyone any familiarity with dss hacking a few years back ?
As I recall the hu card contained an 8051 and 8k eeprom and was programmed via an iso7816 programmer thru the serial port. Wasnt this really an SPI interface ?
john

dead simple

If you buy a Keil MCB900 board (<$50 at discount) and connect it to a zif socket for the eeprom on the patchboard.

The LPC93x has HW SPI and a UART (the MCB900 even has the DB9 socket and the transciever on it).

Then you get most of the code generated by using the CodeArchitect for LPC932, free from http://www.esacademy.com.

So, <$50, a ZIF socket and a day of coding

How dat?

Erik

Thanks, dat be worth lookin into fer sure.
which I will do almost immediately !

John,

Please accept my profound apologies for confusing the issue. I had taken you to mean that you wanted to program the EEPROM in-circuit from the PC serial port without extra fixturing.

Sorry,

/Dan

FWIW, I happen to have used TD<->SCK, DTR<->MOSI, and CTS<->MISO through RS-232 transceivers for some bit-banged applications.

That's a thought. We've used the parallel port on a PC to bitbang a SPI bus, but this sounds like a cleaner set of connectors and cables.

Thats ok Dan, I didnt explain the problem very well in the first place.
Im confused by what Eric said.
The Keil MCB900 board and LPC93x are for Philips products. I followed the logical steps to choose a board for the nrf9e5 chip and came up with MCBX51 EVALUATION BOARD $ 295.00 Different board - very different price.
Actually all that I need is the DB9 to spi buss connections that CodeArchitect for LPC932 uses since Im designing the pcb.
Could you please elaborate ?
Finally, "FWIW, I happen to have used TD<->SCK, DTR<->MOSI, and CTS<->MISO through RS-232 transceivers for some bit-banged applications. " Isnt this going to depend on the software ?

Actually all that I need is the DB9 to spi buss connections that CodeArchitect for LPC932 uses since Im designing the pcb.
No such thing
the DB9 connect to the UART which get the data IN, the SPI pins connect to the socket which get the data out. what's between is code.

Erik

Ok. then I need the db9 to uart connections and the uart to eeprom connections and the software that drives the whole thing.
Are you saying that The Keil MCB900 board and LPC93x and CodeArchitect for LPC932 will provide this ?
What about the part where Keil says to use MCBX51 EVALUATION BOARD ?

'Finally, "FWIW, I happen to have used TD<->SCK, DTR<->MOSI, and CTS<->MISO through RS-232 transceivers for some bit-banged applications. " Isnt this going to depend on the software ?'

Yes, my software is structured so that one can pretty much move RS-232 to SPI signal assignments around to suit their needs (assuming one does not violate the "directions" of the RS-232 signals).

In my case, the client wanted to use a standard DB-9 serial cable from PC to target to both communicate normally between PC and target application, and perform in-system target MCU (re)programming using SPI without any other special external hardware.

Are you saying that The Keil MCB900 board and LPC93x and CodeArchitect for LPC932 will provide this ?

CodeArchotect has nothing to do with actual connections, that is not "code". The MCB-900 board connect a standard configured DB9 through a transciever to the proper pins on the LPC.

Erik

Could you define standard configured DB9 please ?

I can't but here it is:

http://www.national.com/an/AN/AN-917.pdf

Erik