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As the OP here, I appreciate all of the responses.  My original 
intent was just to save a little space on what I hope to be a fairly 
small board and I have to admit I hadn't really thought through some 
of the possibilities that evryone has brought up.  I don't have any 
problems with providing test points for a 6 pin ISP adapter of some 
type.

Along those lines I have done some internet searching but didn't come 
up with anything in particular.  Can anyone provide more detail or 
even some links for some type of narrow pitch adapter I could make or 
buy to use with some test points I would put on my board?

Thanks again,

Bob


--- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, "Graham Davies" <Yahoo37849@...> 
wrote:
>
> --- In AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com, "Dyan Fassett" <kv9r@> wrote:
> 
> > All I'm saying is think of all the posibilities that
> > can occur before you paint yourself into a corner.
> 
> Ok, so, what we have is this ... if you don't provide a means of 
> directly programming the chip (JTAG, ISP, etc.) in a product and 
> instead rely on a Flash loader to upgrade the application firmware:
> 
> 1 - You must make sure the Flash loader is in the chip before it is 
> soldered to the board.
> 
> 2 - You must make sure that the Flash loader is working properly 
and 
> does everything you need it to.
> 
> 3 - You must have a special build of the product with an OCD 
> interface in order to use on-chip debug for application development.
> 
> I think we can all agree with this.  So, if the OP has all these 
> ducks in a row, we shouldn't berate him.  On the other hand, we 
> should heed the voice of experience when you remind us that we may 
> think we have our ducks in a row but one of them turns out to be 
> lame.  Finally, mixing metaphors is not such a good idea after all.
> 
> Graham.
>