NEC Electronics Europe ships 10.000th Flash Programmer PG-FP4

NEC Electronics handed over the 10.000th PG-FP4 during the Embedded World 2007 exhibition in Nuremburg. This universal Flash programmer was developed by the European Technology Centre team in Europe in 2001 and has been shipped to customers since 2002. Reaching the 10.000 sold units mark is a remarkable achievement for a development support tool.

The PG-FP4 is NEC Electronics’ universal Flash programmer which can program any Flash and EEPROM microcontroller devices sold by NEC Electronics. The programming supports ‘on board’ as well as ‘off board’ programming via many different interfaces and dedicated adapters. The versatile PG-FP4 can be used in the development lab as well as in the mass production hall.

The recipient of the 10.000th PG-FP4, Dipl.Ing. Michaela Drissner, Manager Softwareprojects, Automotive Electronics Development Department, Marquardt GmbH, explained “NEC Electronics’ Flash Programmer PG-FP4 has been used successfully by Marquardt for 78K and V850 device programming in our labs for several years. We are especially impressed by the complete support of all derivates, simple operating, reliable functionality and the excellent cost-performance ratio.”  

 The NEC Electronics development tool concept follows the basic rule of “everything from one supplier”. This concept supports the basic customer need to take up all development questions and problems with a single source. Consequently, NEC Electronics can solve all questions and new challenges.

The PG-FP4 can be purchased via our internet shop, from distributors or directly from NEC Electronics.

 

Further details of PG-FP4 are:

Programming

- Off-board programming – via adapter / connector

- On-board programming - without removing the target device from the target system

- User program is stored in the internal Flash memory in order to program the target system stand-alone without host connection of PG-FP4

- Programming parameters are stored in the internal EEPROM.

- Programming voltage can be chosen between 0 - 12V.

- Supply voltage for the target device is supported from 0 – 6V and up to 200 mA.

 

User Interfaces

- Serial interface

o        Host interface

- Parallel interface

o        Host interface

§         Optional fast program download

o        Remote control

- USB interface

o        Host interface

- Graphical user interface

- ASCII command line interface for terminal operation

These user interfaces support

o        target program download and upload

o        selection of user defined parameter setup

o        modification of a target program downloaded to PG-FP4

o        calculation of a memory checksum

o        various device commands to program and verify Flash programming

 

Target Device Interfaces

- SIO

- SIO with H/S

- UART

- IIC

- Port interfaces