Does anyone have some schematics and software
(would be great) for a
little homebrewed Eprom Programmer which works with a standard PC
parallel-port or ISA slot?
I have a hardware/software design for a simple EPROM programmer on my
site ... unfortunately, it was designed years ago when I was still fairly
new at hardware design and it shows ... Works well however and I still
use one of them from time to time (quicker and easier than my 29B).
It's completely stand-alone with a 8-digit LED display and a keypad. It
can upload/download Intel or Motorola HEX format data via a serial port,
and also has a "remote" mode for total computer control.
It only does 2716, 2732, 2764, 27128 and 27256 family devices (all I
needed at the time), although you could design adapters and modify the
code to support other devices if you wanted (I did one for 8051's at
one point).
Parts might be a bit hard to find now - uses a 6809 CPU, 6821 PIA, a 6551
UART, a few 6264 SRAM's, a handful of latches and 3-4 relays to move the
And thereing lies the problem. Presumably you need to program an EPROM
with the firmware for this 6809. Which is somewhat hard without a
programmer :-)...
I built my first EPROM programmer about 18 years ago. Programs
2716-27128, using the 'slow' algorithm. It doesn't even handle 12.5V
parts (I should add that feature!). 3 hand-wired boards of mostly TTL,
with a 40 pin AY-3-1015 UART in the middle. Oh yes, it's an EPROM
emulator as well, for the same types of EPROMs.
My idea was to use this device to develop and burn the firmware for a
microprocessor-controlled programmer, but I never got round to it (and I
picked up a number of interesting commerical programmers too). One day,
perhaps...
-tony