[oc] EEPROM Programmers using FPGAs? now its EPROM vs FLASH time

["Paul McFeeters" <paul.mcfeeters@ntlworld.com>]

Dani,

I don't know much about FLASH memory, more acquainted with EPROMS from
previous projects plus EPROMS are easy to get here. The development
system is using 4 EPROMS to give me 4MBytes of space to store a copy of
ucLinux on it (should be enough? lol). Final one will use a smaller
EPROM or FLASH perhaps so I can send updates in the post or via the
Internet.

My final ucLinux computer is aimed to cost less than £25 (thats about
USD $38), hence why I'm worried over the costs. There are 8bit 'Rabbit'
computers on the Internet for $25 but mine is 32bit (OpenRISC hopefully
so watch out Damjan!)

How easy is it to use FLASH? As easy as SRAM? What sort of access speeds
do you get from them? And how much do typical units cost?

Paul

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-cores@opencores.org [mailto:owner-cores@opencores.org]On
> Behalf Of Daniel Haensse
> Sent: 07 January 2002 11:00
> To: cores@opencores.org
> Subject: Re: [oc] EEPROM Programmers using FPGAs?
>
>
> > Its handy as he made it to program 27c801 chips, 8mbit (1M x 8bit
> > configuration) which are the ones
> > I am going to use for my ucLinux project so how handy is that?
> Why don't you use flash chips? This will be more comfortable to you!!
>
> Dani
>
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-cores@opencores.org [mailto:owner-cores@opencores.org]On
> > Behalf Of Alasdair Hatfield
> > Sent: 06 January 2002 11:17
> > To: cores@opencores.org
> > Subject: Re: [oc] EEPROM Programmers using FPGAs?
> >
> >
> > Paul
> >
> > Take a look at www.hed.de or www.hed-software.com. He sells eprom
> > programmers for very reasonable prices and the support is excellent. If
> > you are looking at a commercial project then you don't want to burn time
> > lashing together your own.
> >
> >
> > Good luck in the commercial world!!
> >
> >
> > Alasdair
> >
> >
> >
> > Paul McFeeters wrote:
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was recently looking at buying an EEPROM programmer for my first
> > commercial hardware project
> > and was surprised to see the price of them. Being frugal (Irish) I don't
> > see why I shouldn't
> > just use one of my FPGAs to program the EPROMs so I just thought I would
> > ask if anybody has
> > heard of this being done before or has any helpful views/ideas for it.
> > It might make a nice
> > new OC project?
> >
> >
> > Paul McFeeters
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