Short story: Anyone have the ability to dump an Intel D8749
microcontroller's internal EEPROM for me?
Long story: I picked up a neat-o keen display unit. (See
http://yahozna.dyndns.org/scratch/avtron/IMG_0477.JPG for a picture) It
uses two *huge* Panaplex displays (Babcock SP-431's) showing 4 7-segment
digits (with 2" digit height) each.
It's made by Avtron, an industrial automation hardware company -- I got
in touch with their support department and they helped me identify the
display (it's a "K885 Extrabrite display" designed to be used with their
K885 "Speed / Draw" systems). Alas, they can't provide any interface
specifications (which is about what I expected), so all I know is that
it uses some sort of two-pin serial interface (with connectors labeled
"High" and "Low")
I was thinking that if I could get a dump of the microcontroller ROM, I
might be able to either (a) decipher the protocol enough to allow
another microcontroller/PC to control the display, or (b) decipher the
hardware enough to figure out how to write a replacement EEPROM for the
onboard microcontroller... I think this thing would make a *really* cool
clock...
- Josh