Lpc2000

At 06:48 PM 1/8/05 +0000, you wrote:
>On the subject of feeling the need to try to program above
>38400...we've got >200K of Thumb code and thousands of chips to ISP in
>the future...I know it will make a difference to our to our PCB
>subcontractor.

Yep for high volume it will make a big difference.  It might be worth your 
while to bootstrap to a higher baud rate.  It's something I've been meaning 
to work on when I get some time.  The idea is the initial ISP would 
download a a small download program to RAM and run it.  It would then set 
the serial port to a higher baud rate and use a binary download 
protocol.  The higher might get you a factor of 3 (if you can match rates 
closely enough), the reduced overhead of the binary protocol would get you 
a factor of 2.  All this minus the actual programming overhead and the time 
to download the initial stub.

Another option in volume might be to get the parts preprogrammed (assuming 
they run identical programs).  That gets it out of your subcontractors way 
entirely.

For a lot of the stuff I've done functional testing made the programming 
time disappear into the noise.

Robert

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