AVR-Chat

Paul,

In another life, I was a Purchasing Agent for a small
electronics firm.  It depends on the quantity of parts
you order and who you order them from, but you can
often get programmable parts of all sorts programmed
by the vendor.  A well-equipped vendor should be able
to program SMT parts as well.

Unfortunately, we're talking about the Arrows,
Pioneers and Hamilton-Avnets of the world to do volume
programming, not the small vendors I purchase from
now.

And no, you don't have to install the 10 pin headers. 
If your having a 3rd party program the boards, just
make sure they have a 'bed of nails' system.  You'll
find the headers cheaper, though.

HTH,

Jeff Engel
--- Paul Maddox <P.Maddox@signal.qinetiq.com> wrote:

> 
> Dear all,
> 
>   Is it possible to somehow program say 40 or 50
> AVRs all at the same time?
> Or somehow automate it?
>  Also is it possible to do this with Surface mount
> versions before they're
> inserted into the PCB?
> 
>  I've had a look and the only thing I can find has
> lots of 10way IDCs, so
> I'd need to mount them all before programming them,
> which adds parts and
> space (and hence cost) to the PCBs?
> 
> Paul


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