SPI-Box

SPI-Box Software Enhanced Edition

Release 2.5, March 2008

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What's new in release 2.0?
- actualized documentation with description of PCB revision 2.0 and firmware version 2.0
- the firmware version 2.0
- SPIBox.dll Version 2.0 (also supports the older firmware version 1.0)
- SPI-Flash now supports the microcontroller AT89S8253
- actualized system information tool

What's new in release 2.1?
- SPI-Flash now supports the microcontroller AT89S52
- SPI-Flash: Small corrections at support of AT89S8253
- SPI-Flash: Programming over the system menu, adjustment of the "chip erase" wait time

What's new in release 2.2?
- SPI-Flash now supports the microcontroller AT89S53
- SPI-Flash: Small corrections at support of AT89S52 and AT89S8252

What's new in Release 2.3?
- SPI-Flash with a "hex dump" view, read, modify and write memory contents
- SPI-Flash: new function "Chip Erase"
- SPI-Flash: Support of the lock bits at AT89S8252 and AT89S53
- SPI-Flash: Corrections at the support for the lock bits at AT89S8253 and AT89S52
- SPI-Flash: Command line parameters
- New application "Firmware Test"
- actualized documentation

What's new in Release 2.4?
- SPI-Flash: Now the flash memory page size is adjustable. ATmega16 and ATmega32 are correct supported now.

What's new in Release 2.5?
- SPI-Flash: Error corrections at support of ATtiny/ATmega.

The package contains...

Complete Documentation

The Enhanced Edition contains a complete documentation of the hardware and software. It contains:

schematic, PCB part placement, parts list
casing holes
assignment and description of the connectors
assignment of adaptor cables
description of contained software and application examples
description of the wrapper unit SPI.pas
description of the interface library SPIBox.dll
description of the SPI-Box commands

The documentation is in english language and available as PDF file (Portable Document Format).

Firmware

For self programmers: The package contains the newest firmware version, including all published older versions. The firmware is available as binary file.

Better Interface Library

The Enhanced Edition contains an improved interface library and an adapted wrapper unit (versions 1.1).

the write function SPIW supports data blocks with a size over 16 Byte
the write/read function SPIWR also supports data blocks with a size over 16 Byte
support of serial ports up to COM99

System Informations

A new small application to show system information. It shows the version number of the DLL and the firmware version of the connected SPI box. Delphi sources are included. The application is in english language.

Program Samples

The software collection contains a small application example in Delphi and C++Builder, to demonstrate the usage of the wrapper unit and the SPI-Box.

EEPROM Programmer

The sample application for programming SPI-EEPROMs now supports the types 25(L)C040, 25(L)C080 and 25(L)C160. The complete Delphi source is included.

SPI-Flash

Version 1.6

The In System Programming Tool Atmel microcontrollers in an advanced Edition! Available in english and german language. It supports the following microcontrollers:

AT89S52, AT89S53, AT89S8252, AT89S8253 (8051)
AT90xx (AVR)
ATtiny (AVR)
ATmega (AVR)

New in version 1.1:

support of the microcontroller AT89S8253 (uses faster page mode programming)
reset button, generates a reset pulse on the reset outputs

New in version 1.2:

support of the microcontroller AT89S52 (uses faster page mode programming)
corrections for the microcontroller AT89S8253
adjustment of the "chip erase" wait time
programming and reset function reachable over system menu

New in version 1.3:

support of the microcontroller AT89S53
corrections for the microcontroller AT89S8252 and AT89S52
elimination of some tiny programming errors

New in version 1.4:

"hex dump" view, read, modify and write memory contents
function "Chip Erase"
Support of the lock bits of the AT89S8252 and AT89S53
Corrections at the Lock Bits for the AT89S8253 and AT89S52
Command line parameters, integration into Atmel AVR Studio and WinAVR development enviroments

New in version 1.5:

Flash memory page size is adjustable.
Correct support of ATmega16, 32 and similar.

New in version 1.6:

Error correction at support of ATtiny/ATmega.

The application were successfully tested with the following Controllers:

AT89S52, AT89S53, AT89S8252, AT89S8253
AT90S2313, AT90(L)S2323, AT90(L)S2343, AT90(L)S8535
ATtiny2313, ATtiny26
ATMega8, ATmega168, ATmega8515, ATmega8535, ATmega16, ATmega32, ATmega644

The application directly supports:

Elektor 89S8252 Flashboard
Elektor AVRee Board
Elektor Mini-Mega-Board
Atmel AVR Starter Kit STK 500

asmEdit

A bonus: A complete 8051 assembler development environment with terminal! A freeware assembler is included. The application supports a direct programming of the Elektor AT89S8252 Flashboards (Edition December 2001) via serial port and a faster programming of this board via SPI-Box. This application is available in german language only.

More Advantages

Buy the Enhanced Edition and get more benefits:

free updates
technical support via e-mail

Buy Online

You can order the SPI-Box Software Enhanced Edition online for Euro 30.00 (incl. vat)!

The link shown below leads to Jochen Merz Shareware. There you can purchase the software package. After the payment a program file with a size of about 4.4 MByte is available for download. Download the Installation program and launch it (administrator rights are required)! It requires a free disk space of about 7.1 MByte.

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