I've finally broken the last of my cheapo AVR ISP (RS232) programmers. I'm fairly sure I fried the AT90LS8535, by hotplugging it into a target board by mistake one too many times.
I used to just buy another; they were cheap enough. Alas, no longer, because they're obsolete, and I can't find any stock at the usual distributers. So, I'd like to ask, in no particular order: o what's your favourite RS232 AVR ISP programmer, perhaps one that's a little better protected against transients/wear and tear than the AVRISP ? I use terminal servers to connect to the programmers, so I need something that implements a real protocol, not just bit-bashing. USB-based solutions need not apply at present. o Anyone know of a secret supply of AVRISPs, at a reasonable price ? o Anyone have a couple of AT90LS8535 chips (also obsolete), because I can still program the part (I know this because I tried to reclaim it by reloading the firmware using avrstudio) - and I would be happy to replace this chip and see if it came back to life (there's not much else in there to go wrong really.) o Anyone know of any other techniques to debug/repair these units ? -- Andy _______________________________________________ AVR-chat mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avr-chat
