infiniteneslives wrote:
I'd like to answer your question(s) but I'm not exactly sure what your trying to do. I'm not familiar with openocd so perhaps that's why I'm confused. Are you having issue programming the flash chip or the CPLD via JTAG? I don't see how the JTAG is relevant to programming the flash chip. What kind of device are you talking about that costs $4k?? What device are you using to flash the chip? Are you writing the code for the programmer and having issues or did you buy some off the shelf programmer that's not working for you..?
I'm trying to program the flash, not the cpld. I mentioned openocd because apparently you can program an external flash chip using boundary scan, but I've been unsuccessful.
I looked at the Super Pro 5000E, and it goes for about $3500-4000 if you can find it. Currently I don't have a method to program the memory, that's why I'm looking for options.
I'm terrible at software, really. So I was hoping for a fairly out of the box type of option. The flash chip in question is a Spansion 29GL128, TSOP56. I currently have a SuperPro 600p, but it's not compatible with any 56 pin chips, and I can't find memory larger than 64Mbit in a tsop48 package.