duane@ginosko.samsung.com (Andrew Duane) (06/20/89)
I am looking for some information on Quattro (sp?) PROM burners. Does anyone know how to contact them, or have any information on their product line? One specific question about them: one of our people claims that these units can tell what kind of chip and what manufacturer it is (i.e. family/part number) just by plugging the chip in. This sounds too good to be true. Is it? Andrew L. Duane (JOT-7) w:(508)-685-7200 X122 h:(603)-434-7934 Samsung Software America decvax!cg-atla!ginosko!duane 1 Corporate Drive uunet/ Andover, MA. 01810 Only my cat shares my opinions, and she's breaking in the new help.
henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) (06/21/89)
In article <1524@ginosko.samsung.com> duane@ginosko.samsung.com (Andrew Duane) writes: >One specific question about them: one of our people claims that >these units can tell what kind of chip and what manufacturer it >is (i.e. family/part number) just by plugging the chip in. This >sounds too good to be true. Is it? No, it's for real. Essentially (I think) all modern EPROMs have an identifier feature, obtained by putting unusual voltages on one or two pins, that reads out a manufacturer code and a type code. -- You *can* understand sendmail, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology but it's not worth it. -Collyer| uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu
paul@Data-IO.COM (Paul Brownlow) (06/21/89)
In article <1524@ginosko.samsung.com> duane@ginosko.samsung.com (Andrew Duane) writes: >I am looking for some information on Quattro (sp?) PROM burners. > >One specific question about them: one of our people claims that >these units can tell what kind of chip and what manufacturer it >is (i.e. family/part number) just by plugging the chip in. This >sounds too good to be true. Is it? > This is not black magic. Many programmers do this, including the boxes manufactured here at Data I/O. Most semiconductor manufacturers these days install a 2-byte code in each device which identifies who the manufacturer of the device is and what specific device it is. The code can typically be extracted by supplying a super-voltage to one of the address pins and reading the data lines. The spec sheet for any device which has this feature will explain how it works. -- Paul Brownlow | "What's the significance? Data I/O Corp. Redmond, WA | I don't know!" ..!uw-beaver!uw-entropy!dataio!paul | -- Pee Wee Herman paul@data-io.com |