Parallax SX Embedded Controller Device Programmers

Note that these are not necessarily also debuggers See: SX Debuggers

Check the local auctions for good deals on used equipment

• http://www.dlpdesign.com/usb/dlpflash.html USB programmer for SX28 and 48 (also programs some PICs!)
• http://www.codepuppies.com/~ben/sens/pic/sx Fluffy. It works, its open source... and its free. Version 1 was reportedly very slow, but there is now a faster version 2 at:
  http://www.semis.demon.co.uk/Sx/SXmain.htm Along with Windows or DOS programming software and an assembler.

• Parallax SX-Key / SXBlitz

• Advanced Transdata SX-ISD is a high class (extra features) version of the SX-Key

• SV TEHS SIA SXTips $39.00 USD
  • supports all current SX derivatives, powered from target board, draws less than 5 mA, able to work at 3V.
  • SV TEHS SIA is a Latvian company.

• http://members.rotfl.com/dturner/#Scenix 3Chip and Resources absolute minimum SX Parallel Port Programmer. Only 7 transistors (cached 20010606160153)
   
• http://www.picallw.com/ PICALL does show support for the SX in the windows version (it also shows a long series of very annoying popup windows) but ONLY if you use the PICALL hardware NOT the PICPROG and ONLY for the latest datecode SX chips. e.g. not the 9xxx but the Axxxxxxx date code.

  See also:

  • http://homepage.ntlworld.com/rovoreed/sx/index.html "...My initial problems were that PICALLW whinged about the addresses SASM created for the ID string. If you don’t have an ID string, SASM still generates the code for one. So there’s no getting away from the problem. Then there’s the FUSE and FUSEX addresses. PICALLW whinged about these too. So I wrote a program called SASM_FIX that takes the output .HEX file and alters it so that PICALLW is happy. What it actually does if keep a track of the highest RAM address used, and puts the ID data there. " SASM_FIX.exe (cached 20040115) It also tweaks the SASM .LST files for SXSIM

The programming spec as documented by the Manufacturer

• http://www.ubicom.com/support/specs/Device_Prog_ISP_rev2_2.pdf (cached 20010519175411 in CCS HTML) the ISP spec

Interested:

• Peter Glukhovsky of FMkit.com

See:

• An ISP adapter for PCBs which do not have the pin header

See also:

• AN24_SXISP.PDF Ubicom application note describing a parallel port based SX in-system programmer++
   
• http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~achin/isp.zip Windows 98 software to control the SX programmer described in Ubicom application note AN24_SXISP.PDF++
   
• http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~achin/SXProgrammerPCB.pdf PCB design for the SX programmer described in Ubicom application note AN24_SXISP.PDF For construction assistance, queries and comments please contact Andrew Chin ++
   
• http://www.excamera.com/articles/10/dlscenix.html discenix: free, open source sx programmer++
   
• http://www.telesys.ca/html/futures.html PicProg also support SX

Questions:

• SPAMceoTakeThisOuT at nurve.net asks:

  I am now developing tools and ide for the SX and I need the DEBUG protocal to talk to the SX chip, does anyone know or have this information? The tools we are making are very advanced VC++ like, so the community is going to profit, but I need the spec. Any ideas? We have of course contacted Ubicom, they aren't much help.
  
  Thanks,
  
  
  Andre' LaMothe
  CEO / Chief Scientist Nurve Networks LLC
  ceo@nurve.net
  925.736.2098 x2
  www.xgamestation.com

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