DS87000

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DS87000 HARDWARE: Figure 1

BUSY

COMPLETE

ERROR

BLANK

PROGRAM

VERIFY

READ

POWER

RS-232

DS87000

PROGRAMMER

DALLAS

SEMICONDUCTOR

DS87000

POWER

SUPPLY

System Software

The DS87000's system software runs on a standard PC, and allows full control of the programmer's operation

through a system of pull down menus. Each of these menus and their sub-menus is described in the following

sections.

DOS Menu

Port

The Port command allows the user to select which PC COM port (1, 2, 3, or 4) the programmer is attached.

The power-on default is COM 1.

DOS

This function provides a convenient means of temporarily exiting to a DOS shell. The DOS "EXIT"

command will return to the menu.

Exit

Exit the DS87000 system software.

Buffer Menu

Load

This command loads an Intel hex file into the programmer's data buffer. Only the buffer memory that is

loaded with data is affected. All other memory remains unchanged.

Save

This command saves the contents of the programmer's buffer to the selected PC file. The information is

stored in Intel hex format. The size of the EPROM in the last device read or programmed determines the file

size. All buffer memory used for a particular device is saved to the file. Therefore if the device most recently

read or programmed has a 16K Byte EPROM, the file will contain the Intel hex formatted contents of all 16K

bytes.